PC'd bullets can easily be manipulated. I made a bump die to bump/swage the lee 230gr blackout bullet. The lee 230gr blackout has a long nose and a boattail base.

I pc'd the bullets and bumped them to shorten the nose. Changed the base to a gas check base. And re-sized them to taper down (.310") at the base/gc to .308" where the arrow points.


Coated (PC'd) bullets shot out of a 308w. I was testing alloy looking for an alloy that would bend/expand instead of shatter.


The only time the pc coating comes off is when the bullet hit something solid/hard. That 2300fps (bottom right) bullet was the the final test for a alloy that would bend/expand instead of breaking/shattering. That bullet was the swaged lee 230gr bullet pictured above with a 50,000+psi load pushing it.

More recovered bullets shot from pistols/revolvers with loads from anything from mild to wild.