Swage 20 GA Foster Type Slugs

Ian

Notorious member
Ugly is as ugly does....

Looks good to me, especially the end result.

With Bama working up HV grooveless, powder-coated bullets to jacketed speeds and the idea for the hammer swage, I'm just about ready to do what Joe and I talked about years ago and try swaging some gas-check bullets. Not full-swage, just "bump" like he was doing for his Hi-Power bullets, since the alloy won't be good for drawing much. Cast the basic shape and bump in a die of the same shape using a base punch with the gas check shank machined into it. That will take some real steel, though and some mirror polishing on the inside. The alloy dendrites will be re-energized after swaging during the heat-treat/powder bake. One of these days....
 

RBHarter

West Central AR
I have a set of dies for a 100-110 gr 30 cal RNHP and for whatever reason it never occurred to me that it could be an HT/PC candidate with a gas check .
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VZerone

Active Member
Ugly is as ugly does....

Looks good to me, especially the end result.

With Bama working up HV grooveless, powder-coated bullets to jacketed speeds and the idea for the hammer swage, I'm just about ready to do what Joe and I talked about years ago and try swaging some gas-check bullets. Not full-swage, just "bump" like he was doing for his Hi-Power bullets, since the alloy won't be good for drawing much. Cast the basic shape and bump in a die of the same shape using a base punch with the gas check shank machined into it. That will take some real steel, though and some mirror polishing on the inside. The alloy dendrites will be re-energized after swaging during the heat-treat/powder bake. One of these days....

Thanks for the kind words. The pound swage does work beautifully too! Joe has so many ideas that talking to him live is mind boggling. The swage he has he has been able to swage some fairly hard alloys in small pistol/revolver calibers. More less he's bumping cast lubed bullet up to fit some of his firearms. He had a P08 Luger with a good condition barrel, but the grooves are .358 so he bumps up suitable bullets to .359 and it's a blast to see how small of a group that pistol shoots. Remember they are almost a fixed barrel and very accurate. He has the same problem with a P38 with a 357 groove and that barrel is rearsenal new during the war. He uses the same bumped up .359 bullet in it too. It too is pretty accurate considering all the slop everywhere in the pistol. Once he bumped up the bullets that one really had a major group shrinkage.

I'm fortunate enough to live very close to him so I get to use all his stuff and even borrow his many guns to shoot for myself.