Good Monday Morning!
First off I made a mistake and released the Casting Bullet Quality Control write up as a post an not a page. Thus it was emailed out to all of you instead of just going live to the page. We truly do not want to spam our subscribers, so we limit emails to once a week updates for those who want to see what happens on the site. I’ll pay special attention to this in the future.
We had a successful casting session last week. Instead of doing a full “How To” I instead decided to share my thoughts on casting. Hopefully there’s some interesting stuff for newbies and veterans alike.
Some Thoughts on Casting Bullets
When you manufacturer your own bullets or ammunition you need to have some way to measure critical dimensions, and a means to establish your own quality control. While perfection is everyone’s goal, there are often factors that beyond your control that make achieving this goal impossible. Here is what we do when we look at quality control of our cast bullets.
Casting Bullets Quality Control
We’ve been working with Hi-Tek Expoy coating for our cast bullets. Expect to see a write up on that in the near future for those who are interested. This is the first time we’ve used this coating, and it has been a bit of an adventure. I do believe in the future we will see a migration away from copper and brass jackets bullets to Nylon, or Epoxy type coatings, for budget ammunition from mainstream manufacturers.
This is not without precedent, as Herters, Federal and some other have released some version of a Nylon or Coated lead bullet in loaded ammunition. While these early attempts may not have been a commercial success, we will likely see these products come back to the market as ammunition prices rise, and companies find way to cut costs and bring product to the market at lower costs.
As always if you have any questions, comments or concerns, please feel free to drop me an email at jayandrew338@gmail.com or hop on Facebook and checkout our Facebook page.
Stay sane, and stay safe!
The Ballistic Assistant