03-05-2014, 12:22 PM
(03-05-2014, 07:35 AM)Old Iron` Wrote: Good vid Willie, There is a lot of guys making jackets for there lead bullets but its to much work for me.
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Paul
I hear you there Paul. Too much work for me as well.
Actually, Sierra does offer a few sizes of jackets for sale to the die-hard types for making their own bullets. https://www.sierrabullets.com/products/bullet-jackets/
I've been through the Sierra factory many times and seen it all. They have an extensive machine shop for making all their own tooling and repair parts for the machines which have been around for a long, long, long time and they are still going.
I buy a lot of their "factory seconds". Bullets that didn't make their way into the little green boxes because of cosmetic defects. Heavily discounted but they still shoot just fine for the most part. Practice targets don't know the difference.
There is a shooting club several miles north of the factory where they hold the state regional and championship highpower matches. One of my former competitors was the head ballistician for Sierra bullets. Super nice guy.
And there is one error in that video where the narrator (Lenny Magill) says that there is no heat involved when extruding the lead wire - only pressure. That is wrong because there is a sizable electric furnace below that machine that softens up the lead just a bit before it gets squeezed through the dies. I've stood next to it. It's HOT!
You are shooting a .380 at 75 yards???
Man, you've got better eyes than I do!
Willie