I realized what was wrong with the lead wire cutter. There aren't any good pictures of the cutter assembled, but on the page where they sell the dies, they mention that there's a tall one, and a short one, and the tall one goes on the upper (stationary) portion. They assembled mine backwards, so the long die prevented me from cutting wire shorter than 1/2" long. I reversed the dies today, and can go as short as I'd ever need to. I now have the blanks cutting at 31-31.5 gr for the 30 gr slugs. That extrudes about 3/16" of fine wire out of each hole.
I made a couple dozen 30 gr, hollow point, flat base (NSA clone) slugs, and they shot just like the NSA slugs, as expected of course. Looks like I'm in business, aside from raising the press to a better working height.
Cheers,
Rusty
I made a couple dozen 30 gr, hollow point, flat base (NSA clone) slugs, and they shot just like the NSA slugs, as expected of course. Looks like I'm in business, aside from raising the press to a better working height.
Cheers,
Rusty
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