Pin grabbers and other used

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beagle

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Been messing with a top punch that makes “pin grabbers” and also skives the nose of HP bullets. Initial results on .44 and .45 bullets works well and 9mm and .38s work marginally as I made the positioning pin hole too large. Really enhances HP capabilities on .38s and 9mm as it but needs to be smaller. Is applied as you size and lube./1710858668013.jpeg
 
Ian

Ian

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I always wanted to make one that skived the inside of the HP cavity but figured it would be more of a novelty than anything.
 
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shuz

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I still have the 4 cavity 429421 that has hollow point pins mounted on a bar of steel.The pins have a hollow point configuration that gives the finished bullet that looks like it has sawblade teeth!
Anything I ever shot with it outta .44 mag passed on thru so I was never able to recover a bullet.
That mould with the steel block was really heavy and thus hard on the wrists. Either John, Tony or Buckshot christened it "the mould from Hell"!
Bullets visible from the front of a cylinder, sure look nasty.
 
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beagle

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Fairly easy to make but you have to have pretty good machine tools. We did this one on the "sparse tool" side. I made mistakes. I'll write up what is required and post tonight if I get time. You can get by with one top punch. It's better to size and lube and come back and form the nose on a second pass. The 358480HP makes a nice load in the 9mm Blackhawk convertible but won't feed reliably in my High Power./beagle
 
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Rushcreek

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A friend has a Beretta Minx .22 short pistol and back when we shot bowling pins it was a hoot to head shoot the pins with that little pistol for fun.
They just fell down.
I know that a 230 gr lrn from a .45 hurts a bit on rebound!
 
Snakeoil

Snakeoil

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Rushcreek said:
A friend has a Beretta Minx .22 short pistol and back when we shot bowling pins it was a hoot to head shoot the pins with that little pistol for fun.
They just fell down.
I know that a 230 gr lrn from a .45 hurts a bit on rebound!
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Had a Minx. It would go full auto regulary. Traded it in on something better.

At a pin and plate match we put on, one of our ROs was a young lady with big boobies. A .45 slug bounced back from a pin and nailed her in the boobie. She maintained her composure, jogged to the scoring shack where my wife was working and back in the corner of the shack let out a yell that scared the bejezuz out if my wife. She was a hurtin' young lady.
 
L Ross

L Ross

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I was working on fast draw and shoot from the hip with a Richard Mason conversion replica. .44 Colt, 200 grain RNFP, 23 grains of 3 fg using bowling pins as the targets from about 7 yards. The nearly pure lead slug bounced back and grazed my right testicle and slammed into my thigh and fell in front of me. It had the weave of my Wrangler jeans imprinted on the lead. Just barely, barely touched the jewel. I stopped shooting at bowling pins after that. I had a bruise the next day.
 
quicksylver

quicksylver

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stopped our pin shoots when a preteen bystander got hit in the cheek, prior to that EVERYBODY got blooded at one point or another and chuckled about it.
 
Brad

Brad

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L Ross said:
I was working on fast draw and shoot from the hip with a Richard Mason conversion replica. .44 Colt, 200 grain RNFP, 23 grains of 3 fg using bowling pins as the targets from about 7 yards. The nearly pure lead slug bounced back and grazed my right testicle and slammed into my thigh and fell in front of me. It had the weave of my Wrangler jeans imprinted on the lead. Just barely, barely touched the jewel. I stopped shooting at bowling pins after that. I had a bruise the next day.
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You lost me at “grazed my right testicle”.
I just stopped crying

I do know the NRA changed the distance for the chickens in pistol cartridge lever action silhouette from 25 to 40 yards due to ricochet just like that.

Be safe guys!
 
fiver

fiver

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40 yds.??
we shoot them at 50 meters.
50-100-150 and 200.
maybe that's why i suck at the turkeys.
 
StrawHat

StrawHat

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Snakeoil said:
If you hit the pin in the center, like you are supposed to, you won't need need these.
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Yep, I have to agree with this statement. I would use the SAECO 453 (240 grain, 45 caliber, full wadcutter) at hardball velocities. They start at a nice size and do not need to get any bigger to be effective.

Kevin
 
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