Slug Guns and Muzzleloaders

[Slugun45]

Sure are a lot of people looking at Slug guns but not much talking. I have a question. The two piece cast bullet dies that I received with my rifle need some help. They just don't make perfect bullets, not good alinement between base and nose. I want to have a swaged two piece bullet with the base being much harder than the nose. I do have a Corbin swaging press. A couple of weeks ago I sent a sample of the bullet I would like and request to Richard Corbin, to date no response. Don't know if he is not interested or just does not want to be bothered. Any way what is the general opinion on a swaged bullet and making them with the hard/ soft.

I have not shot my rifle yet Way to much snow here in CT, but I see no reason not to obtain the best bullet I can. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Mike Pifer

Mike, For slugun gun you want as pure soft lead basse and a hard(er) nose. The soft lead base allows good expansion of the base to fill the grooves and avoid gas escaping. Forthe nose I use 4 pounds of wheel wieght metal to 1 pound of soft lead. The bullet cpmponents do not have to be perfect as the swedging together ofthe two parts clears up some cosmetic errors. However, I do weigh the bases and the noses before putting them together, tossing out those that are way out of range. The hammer swedge that you got with the rifle shold takae care of this for you. I poured a ten pound peice of lead from scrap to set the swedge on drilling a hole in it for the pin. This gives a very stable base to work on. jim