Bullet Making - Newer Stuff

[StephenPerry]

Scott
There is no experimenting in bullet making you are either in to it or selling your equipment. What caliber bullet dies did you get from Corbin. And what are you going to use for an ejector press. You can get by with 1 press just fine. You will be doing alot of adjusting on your ejector assembly and bruise a few knuckles. I did it that way for my first 5 years making bullets. I am running 2 sets of dies, 22 & 6 and 3 RCBS presses.
Scott go into bullet making with a purpose that being to make better bullets than you can buy. With some knowledge and some time on the presses you will succeed. Bend my ear anytime on bullet making. I have learned from some of the best.
Stephen Perry

 

[StephenPerry]

Bullet Makers
Like to hear from some more bullet making guys and gals out there. With the winter chill starting to set in bullet making will keep your joints moving. Just talked with Don Gentner last weekend. I consider him a patriarch among today's bullet makers. He is in the middle of cutting and forming 10,000 cores to keep him ahead of his orders. He says he make bullets 7 days a week but that stretching it as he does compete in BR.
When I start to make cores I pull say 10-20 lines of wire the length of my bullet making box and then wet a paper towel with plenty of spray silicone and pull each length of wire through. Change towels for each pull to keep what you have cleaned clean. You can turn the towel over and get 2 pulls with each towel. This cleans the wire and leaves a small amount of silicone on the wire. I then cut each core length with my CH core cutter and drop them into a empty J4 bullet jacket bucket with a piece of paper towel in the bottom to stop the bounce. I stack up 5 buckets so the drop is held to a minimum. Now I transfer all my cut cores in to a bowl and run them through my core making die. The small amount of silicone still on the cut cores keeps my dry cores wet and avoids the tight pull core that I hate. I'll let Don play with this silicone idea, he'll tell me later.
Stephen Perry

 

[AlNyhus]

Having recently recieved the dies and other doodads, I'm going to try my hand at making BR quality .30 cal. bullets. My good pal Randy Robinett of BIB Bullets has agreed to mentor me through the process and smooth out the learning curve as best he can.

He may live to regret this decision as I'm about as teachable as a tree stump.

 

[JHardy]

Al:

I envy the fact that Randy is going to mentor your 30 cal bullet making venture. His 187 FB is the best 1000 yd BR bullet I have every shot, and that pill has gained much respect in the long range community.

You could not have a better teacher. Have fun, enjoy the experience and share the information.

Jim Hardy

 

[StephenPerry]

Al
Noble venture in making bullets. Nice to have Randy mentoring you. Your learning curve will be short but it never ends in making bullets. Walt Berger told me at our BR School that there weren't a large amount of bullet makers in the Country. For everyone that starts making bullets a few quit ask Jackie S about that. Good luck and let me know if you need a second opinion. I layed out most everything to get you started in my 6mmBR Thread. Randy is the man for 30 cal bullets I only do 22 & 6 bullets.
Chris most bullet making die set have 3 dies. You should never need to change the squirt die and the core seating die. You can make a different weight core by adjusting the squirt die. Then you would need to adjust the core seat and point-up die. Each jacket has a core limit you need to check that. Berger can help you with that. If you want a different ogive you will need an additional point-up die.
Stephen Perry

 

[ChrisNam]

This is a great thread - sorry Stephen Perry is no longer there to keep on contributing.

Forgive my ignorence - do you need different dies for say a 85gr and 107gr 6mm bullet, different ogives, flat base vs boattail, etc?

 

[geoulri1]

This is a great thread - sorry Stephen Perry is no longer there to keep on contributing.

Forgive my ignorence - do you need different dies for say a 85gr and 107gr 6mm bullet, different ogives, flat base vs boattail, etc?

yes you need different dies for different ogives,you can make a range of bullets in different wieghtson one die as long as jackets will allow, you need another die added to set to make boattails, on wieghts you can use an .825 lg. jacket to make from 64-70ish gr bullets but not much iess or more need a longer jacket or shorter jacket to change wieghts but when you change jacket length you also change length of bearing surface. hope this helps george

 

[StephenPerry]

ChrisNam
Well I'm back Chris and want to continue this bullet making Thread. I am a person that enjoys making bullets. We all the recipients of a tool and die makers talents. I like operating a set of dies made by the Masters of the Bullet World. The tolerances these machinists put into my dies are what make my bullets great not so much what I do.
I am now looking for a Point die to allow me to make 105 grn bullets for my 6x47 Lapua. The other 2 dies can be adjusted to and fro to keep making my 66 grn bullets.
Keep the questions coming and we can learn together about bullet making.

Stephen Perry
Angeles BR

 

[ChrisNam]

I have not seen any contributions from Stephen Perry for some time and all attempts to make contact have been in vain.

Can anyone tell me how to get in contact with Stephen?

 

[ChrisNam]

Thank you very much Rewinder

 

[ThunderDownUnder]

If Stephen ever gets back to this thread I would like to see some photos of equipment and his hand made projectiles.

Come on Stephen, break out your digital camera!

 

[Larry Koch]

I wonder if anyone is still making bullet?

 

[AlNyhus]

I wonder if anyone is still making bullet?

Stephen passed in Feb. of 2019. He was a unique person with a passion for BR shooting and bullet making. -Al