Machinist Needed

[Brucetn]

want to know if there is a machinist out there that would be will to make and sell a swaging dies. i would like a swaging die for a .270 win.

[deltaenterprizes]

You mean you want to make .270 cal bullets. It doesn't matter what cartridge you load them in. Where are you going to get jackets?

[Brucetn]

I was going to try to make them as well using copper pressed to a thin sheet and pressed in to a cup. My problem is that the only company that I have found online that does this type of die wants 500 to 900 dollars for it and I don't understand how a die to make cartridges cost 40 to 100 dollars and this die's cost is so high. So I was just wander if there was a machinist out there that was will to do it cheaper the www.corbins.com and if so how much they would charge.

[Rusty Marlin]

You'll be lucky.

Corbin has been in that specific business for years.
They have the fixtures, gages, materials and process nailed down tight. For a machinist to make you a die as a one off with the asociated prototyping to get everything perfect... you're looking at twice or three times the price.

[rws]

There is a guy down south named Blackman I believe that makes steel bullet dies, and from what I've heard and seen, they make excellent bullets. I cannot say what he charges.

Now if you want carbide dies, a complete set runs around 3 grand!

[38_Cal]

I was going to try to make them as well using copper pressed to a thin sheet and pressed in to a cup. My problem is that the only company that I have found online that does this type of die wants 500 to 900 dollars for it and I don't understand how a die to make cartridges cost 40 to 100 dollars and this die's cost is so high. So I was just wander if there was a machinist out there that was will to do it cheaper the www.corbins.com and if so how much they would charge.

Die sets "to make cartridges" are intended for re-sizing or moderate re-forming, not starting from scratch. Typically, bullets go through several draw process from blank to finished product, with several different die/punch sets being used in punch presses. Jackets are not of a uniform thickness, especially for hunting bullets, and designs have to take into account springback, annealing, core insertion methods and sequence...all the good stuff.

Not to say that you can't come up with something that will work, but there's a lot of bullets you can buy for what you'll have into machining a die set!

David Kaiser
Montezuma, IA

[Al Messer]

Buy a box of Sierras and save your money.