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Point Form Die w/bleed holes, -S type
 
Point Form Die w/bleed holes, -S type Quantity in Basket: None
Catalog No.: PF-1-SB
Price: $489.00
Shipping Weight: 0.25 pounds
 
Enter ONE bullet caliber (diameter) in inches:
Enter desired weight range in grains:
Diameter of flat tip, inches:
Select Ogive (nose) Shape:
Truncated Cone (TC)
1/2-E Blunt RN
3/4-E Pistol RN
1-E Rifle RN
1-E standard flat tip (50% of caliber)
Luger 9mm shape
2-S Short Spitzer
4-S Short Spitzer
6-S Standard Rifle
8-S Spitzer
10-S Spitzer
12-S spitzer
Ultra Low Drag Secant
Custom Shape (+ $240)
Enter custom ogive specs:
Select base shape (if applicable):
Not applicable
Flat base
Dish base (shallow concave)
Cup base (paper patch)
Hollow base (typically for pellet, Minie-ball, airgun slug)
Rebated Boatail
Base Guard
Heel Base (enter specs) +$84
Custom Base (enter specs) +$84
Enter custom base specs:
Optional Note:
Select tip style desired:
Flat tip (solid)
Semi-spitzer (rounded tip)
Sharp pointed tip
Hollow point (enter specs if so...)
Enter HP length and diameter:
 
Quantity:
 
This is a point forming die with bleed holes to adjust a lead bullet weight while making the ogive, nose and base all at one time. It is truely a one-stroke-and-done tool. Please note:
You do not need to provide values for ALL of the options. If left blank, the most popular and useful value will be used. The options are offered in case you have a specific value in mind for your own reason. Feel comfortable in leaving blank any value about which you ae unsure or do not have a specific requirement.

The results are usually beset with this die if you use a lead core with relatively smooth ends, which helps avoid trapping a small amount of lube in fold lines (which can be wiped off and re-swaged, but it's better to avoid the extra operation). This kind of die is the same as a PF-1-SL lead tip forming, synchronized length pressure sealing ejection design, with the addition of three bleed holes at 120-degree positions around the die body. This provides for even flow from around the circumference of the bullet, and assists in achieving a uniform weight.

The die is best used with Bhn5-6 soft lead. Attempting to make harder lead flow through the bleed holes can raise pressure above the die breaking point and would not be a warranty situation. The die is excellent for making these kinds of lead bullets:
  • Hollow, cup or flat based airgun pellets, with or without a hollow point.
  • Muzzle loader slugs
  • Smooth ogive handgun bullets with gas checks, base guards, or in some cases, a short jacket that does not cover the bleed holes.
  • Beveled base pistol bullets with a semi-wadcutter nose (formed by using a nose punch instead of external base punch, with the ogive being the bevel on the base).
The single ejection pin can be made with a flat end, a cavity or concave end to help make a spitzer or semi-spitzer tip, or a projection or "probe" that makes a hollow point cavity. You can specify the diameter of the flat end, and also the same size or a smaller sized hollow point of a given length. Using a full diameter punch to make a hollow point, however, can leave a very thin and fragile edge on the bullet nose. It is usually better to specify a larger diameter for the flat end, and a smaller diameter for a hollow point hole in that flat tip. Subtract the different in diameters, divide that by 2, and you have the amount of lead wall surrounding the hollow point. If it is at least 0.020 inches, there is a good chance the tip won't be mashed by handling and loading operations.

Practical flat tip diameters are normally .157, .161, .200, .250 or larger, depending on the caliber of course (you can't have a .250 flat tip on a .224 bullet, for instance, and if you put a .224 tip on a .224 bullet, you have a straight cylinder with a flat end -- sketch out your design on a piece of graph paper so it is drawn to scale, if you want to see whether it is practical to make and handle). Ejection pins (and flat tips) smaller than about 0.100 are usually not practical to make, and would not have any practical benefit from a tiny hollow point. Hollow point cavities smaller than about .060 inches are so fragile that the pin may be snapped off by misuse of the die very easily, and can't be warrantied for that reason. All these numbers are rough guides, not sudden barriers whicn work fine on one side and fail on the other. It is a graduated scale of strength and durability. The larger the diameter the stronger the pin and the less likely it is you will damage it by accidently wedging material beside (as can happen if you use a rough or angled core end). Angled core ends tend to flow down one side of the HP probe first, prying it to one side. Flat ended cores are far more likely to simply impact straight on the end of the pin, and not lever it sideways.

If you have a reason for a specific diameter of pin, rather than one that is the nearest standard diameter, please tell us with the "note" blank. Otherwise, if you were to order .160 and we had a good supply of 0.161 pins, or if you entered .150 and we had plenty of .157 pins made up, it would expedite delivery to send the one that is a few thousandths larger. Normally it makes no difference in performance or appearance, but if you have a specific insert to place in the nose, we'd want to send the specific size you order regardless of whether it takes longer to make. We wouldn't send a different size without asking you but sometimes a person is not easily contacted (phone-tag, travel, out of town, etc.). In those cases, the delay while we try to reach you could be avoided if we knew for sure that a close size would be acceptable, or an exact size is needed.




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