Making pellets at home, remote, or while wasting time at the office.

[Odoyle]

I highly recommend the $1600 -$2000 Corbin dies and press and associated brand tools and lead wire if you want consistent SUB half inch groups out of your 22 FX Impact at 100 yards and SUB 2 inch at 200 yards if the NSA doesn't have the in between weight your gun prefers.

Don't need to waste your money on the Corbin if moa average accuracy with occasional half inch at 100 yards is good enough and don't wanna deal with making your own perfect match qualty slugs and already accepted the limitations of commercially made slugs.

 

[triggertreat]

I have been heavy into casting for .25, .30 and .357 calibers lately. The goal is to get all to shoot as good as the commercial pellets/slugs. I have been able to get the .30 cal cast pellets and the .357 cast slugs to shoot very straight. The .30 cals are my main focus currently. I have them grouping really well now, so I have cast some 3000 to have on hand. It has been a lot of trouble to get this far, but has been a lot of fun, too. I started out with 2" groups at .30 yards with the .30 cal cast pellets (47gr) to now drilling ragged holes at 50 yards with them. I had to get my NOE mold prepped correctly, the temps and lead mixture set correct along with the correct FX twist rate liner and speed. It's good to be self sufficient and I am really happy to have cast pellets and slugs shooting just as well as the JSBs, or so close you can't really tell much difference. I get all of my supplies from NOE.

Hi Triggertreat,

Thank you for the reply and information, just getting into the PCP rabbit hole myself. I know that I will shoot, .25 and .30 at some point I might grab something in .45 or .50 cals. I started down the PCP road with looking for something besides work, I love my powder burners they are just no economical to shoot (I type this after looking at PCP's starting at $1500 usd) My pitch to the spouse was it will be cheaper in the long run (it's my fib and I will stick with it). Once done with work today will venture over the NOE web site and look around. For the PSP I have a deposit on a Edgun L2 from Edgunswest, I have the primary barrel in .25 350 mm and will add one of the Valkyrie kits in 650 mm with a 200 mm moderator in .30. I am also looking at other PSP's they are like crisps or standard poodles can't just have one. 

Thank you for the information!

Take Care,

Margaret 

For big bore airguns (.30 cal and up) Longer barrels and smaller/lighter slugs would be my goal for success. .50 cal puts you in big air use territory with a loud report and low shot count, plus are slow to the targets requiring more holdover at longer ranges.

The .30 and .357 cal can reach the targets much sooner with more reasonable air consumption and penetration and with less holdovers. With airguns there are compromises to be hashed out. Good planning for your end goals can save you a lot of coins, but it's fun learning, also.

 

[zan89]

Well i can say that if you want to make your own slugs to save money, forget it.. those slugs will cost you triple amount or even more one the end without counting your time. Before you will come to a die that will work, right lead wire or casted core you will change(buy) numerous tools. I can tell from my experience. Yes i found a slug that shoot half Moa at 100yard constantly, but i also spend close to a 10k€.. there is no so expensive slugs

If you want to do it from your interest and have fun and make good slugs then try, but be prepared to open wallet more then you want.

 

[DesertSilver]

Tag for interest!

- Used to cast for powder-burners... Don't think I ever saved a dime doing so... But I sure had lots of fun 

I recycle my lead that I cast in my.22 cal bullet trap. All it would cost others is their time and electricity. I'm off grid so my power is free.