View Single Post
 
Old 10-05-2011, 07:58 PM
2152hq 2152hq is offline
Member
 
Join Date: Sep 2005
Posts: 7,759
Likes: 1,644
Liked 9,165 Times in 3,386 Posts
Default

Savage 24's are handy guns.
The flat head 22's are made by putting the loaded round in a smooth jawed bench vise end to end in the jaws and gently closing the vise.
Hollow points work esier than solids, you gotta use what you have.

The soft lead bullet nose flattens out ,,,and generally the base portion pushes back over the mouth of the brass case a little too.
Sometimes it pushes back a little too much and they won't chamber. That's Bad Ju-Ju when trying to reload and a wounded snapping turtle is bearing down on you.

Best to turn your face away from the vise squeezing process when manufacturing these killer rounds.
There's always a chance the rim will collapes before the bullet nose does and one'll go off in the bullet makin' machine.
They're cheap though, so throw another in the vise and just squeeze a little lesser.
Reply With Quote