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December 23, 2014, 02:26 AM | #1 |
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Personal Defense bullets 45 cal.
You want to make a bullet that will tear the butt offa buffalo? I'm using RCBS
270 gr SWC mould. I made oak blocks to hold the bullets in drill press vice. Use 3/8" bit, set depth to 1st grease grove. Feed bit slow and use new bit. After drilling fill cavity with shotgun shot. I used #10, the smallest I had. Cap with 357 gas check, upside down.Then size bullet(452) using top punch for 44 cal. round nose bullet. RN top punch will "crimp" gas check" in to hold shot Load. Weigh bullets and load powder accordingly. Use RN stem in your seating die. To test shoot 4x4s out from under neighbors deck,ha, ha! I'm going to scale down and make some for 357. Haven't figured out recipe yet. |
December 23, 2014, 01:57 PM | #2 |
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That sure sounds like a ton of work to go through in order to get where your goin.
Why not simply pick up an MP or NOE mold with the HP pins already made for the mold and go on with it. The one on the left is the MP version 45-270 SAA, That round area in the middle is the base of the bullet. All of those were fired form my Redhawk in 45 Colt. None of the velocities were above 1150fps. Starting from the left the weights are, 275grs, 265grs, and 260grs. The last one on the right is a good one out of my 1911 as well, but I don't shoot a lot of them, just enough to keep in practice and know where to hold. You know, just in case one of those wild buffs gets loose around town. Depending on what the alloy is and how fast your running it, you don't need the extra shot to make a devastating hole in something, but if you don't get penetration with that added damage your not gaining much form it. These are some Accurate 454280's that were just flat nosed when they started out, These run around 285'ish depending on the alloy, and need not be run any faster than around 1100'ish feet per second to accomplish that expansion with my 1.75/1.75/96.5 alloy.
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December 24, 2014, 06:08 PM | #3 |
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Mike / Tx,
Your mushroom bullets really look like mushrooms
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December 25, 2014, 02:03 PM | #4 |
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unfortunately for you, 4x4s have nothing to do with animals (of which human being are a sub-set). I do hope your neighbor is accommodating to having his deck shot up though my dad would have taken away my gun privileges for the rest of my life for doing something like that permission or not.
Ie. in the real world of self defense your results are worthless. Manufactures spend millions testing on the best medium they can make that duplicates animal tissue and then often people (or buffalo) are filled with said rounds who refuse to expire according to plan. |
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