Making Copper Bullet Jackets: Machining Punching & Drawing Dies! Part 8

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Blanking part of the punch works! Now let's finish up - in Episode 8 we turn and polish the cupping punch that fits inside the blanking die body.
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Having been a long time shooter and reloader, I am undertaking my next project for my new Emco V13 lathe: Making Copper Bullet Jackets. The process steps are to blank a copper coin out of a strip of copper, cup it, then draw it in to progressively longer and thinner-walled shapes. The goal in this project is to end up with a 9MM jacket which will be about 0.6" long and 0.352" in diameter. That jacket can then be used in a swaging system (e.g. Corbin) and combined with a lead slug to make an actual bullet!
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