Make Your Own Jacketed Bullets

Make your own bullets with copper bullet swaging jackets from centerxbullets.

Make your own jacketed bullets.

Casting your own bullets gives you the added benefit of being able to make any size shape and variation you want. Make your own bullets with copper bullet swaging jackets from centerxbullets. I would rather use a set of good factory hollow point ammunition for home defense or concealed carry but when the zombies rise up these will work in a pinch. The video above shows how to make your own hollow point bullets with a case trimmer and a bit of skill.

There is a lead core to give it the mass and a copper jacket to hold it together before and after it hits. Then making your own jacketed bullets is worth while. Cores seem to be the biggest concern cast bullets work well enough. There are other types but the copper jacket represents the bulk of the market.

I d also make the hole no more than half the bullet diameter. The other benefit of casting your own bullets specifically making lead bullets is that much like reusing brass shells you can collect the lead you ve fired melt it back down and fire it again and again. Just chuck the round and live rounds are ok despite what the nervous nellies may tell you in a drill press and drill no more than 2 3s down the bullet length. Shop our pistol and rifle bullet swaging jackets to increase your accuracy shoot more and save money by manufacturing your own custom bullets.

While far less common than casting lead bullets there are people who make their own jacketed bullets.