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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Blitzfike" data-source="post: 2390356" data-attributes="member: 807"><p>The soft lead wire used is smaller in diameter and gets formed into the die under pressure. I swage 223 bullets using fired 22 rimfire cases to make the jackets from. I cast the cores and they are a loose fit into the jacket. As they are seated into the core and then put into the pointing die, the lead deforms to completely fill the jacket. I can adjust the bullet weight to what ever I want from about 40 grains out to 65 grains. My best target bullets come out at 57 grains. I tried using dead soft lead and it will work, but the regular casting alloy gives me a better bullet that hangs together at higher velocities. I can make a more accurate bullet than I can buy with that method. I am using the Corbin die set.</p></blockquote><p></p>