Your set up very well with what you have you can be creative, I've at it for close to ten years. Corbin make some fine equipment I've been to his shop for a small shop i'ts top of the line. He sell's powdered metal equipment for swageing, do you mean bulding projo's with part powder & part lead ?
I hear that, we use the Hoover meplat trimmer tool to check base to ogive as well. I You can mount your caliper to the tool and check base to ogive & rebate to ogive a lot quicker. Use the Stoney Point on the rebate.
Let me say thank you to Swamplord for his ability to see thru the fog. I will once again offer myself to be a target, any one who has ever taken the custom bullet making out of making for your self & friends knows you will not make a large profit. Most guys do it because they love doing it if...
WE have had component resupply issues and are catching up as well as adding equipment. Berger & Sierra are still sending jackets to their production as well, not wining hand made projos take time we are working to improve production.
AL
Whiskey3 is a business partner we are working on some projects together and Doug at UP Ammo is a dealer on the west coast and sell's alco precision bullets, W3P sell's TAC-PM among other things. AL
Rich: Lets try to be nice to each other here we all know figuring BC'S are a educated guess the same round in 5 rifles off the shelf will not shoot the same. The proof is in the reloader & shooter. I use a program to figure bc's I am not a math teacher so I'm not doing the calcs in my head so...
Roy We have a set of 338 dies VLD Ballistic Tip on order now we will have a projo that will work in the big Mags I will send you some to try when they get here. I am old & forgetfull you may have to remind me. AL
If you want to check Jacket thickness you need a ICC Comparator made buy Vern Junke however he no longer makes them. That being said I have such a tool that checks jacket thickness & GC. If you wish I can check your bullets for you?
Just received die sets for 7 MM projectiles can make HP and lead tip bullets now at your choice of weights. The steel tip dies are about 30 days out they will make a great VLD get you into the next Zip Code.