Originally posted by Misguided Russian
You ever experiment with putting putting steel/tungsten cores in your homemade ammo? Assuming you made the ingots into ammo that is.
ive embedded carbide drill-bit blanks into 12ga foster and sabot slugs...using a carefully aligned drill press on a drill-press vise and also a few on a commercial lathe. the drill press method was a billion times easier. ive never had a need to do it into rifle rounds. there are several metal high-voltage transmission line towers somewhere with neat little 1/4" holes through them.
the ingots are melted down (cast) into el-cheapo plinking rounds for pistols with minimal quality control and also .50 rounds with a little more attention to the alloy/temperature castings because of how ass-rapingly expensive commercial .50 rounds cost. the 'decent' home made bullets for pistols i make are from lead wire swaged into a copper jacket, like the old style 'cup-and-core' rounds. realistically when time and component costs are factored together there is little to no savings in making 'decent' pistol bullets compared to buying commercial versions. i just do it for the shits and giggles. home-made lead bullets with no jackets are borderline cost-effective compared to the equivalent commercial version if the lead is free.
for precision rounds i use strictly commercial components.
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