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I have never heard of anyone doing it. My thought is a lot of work for little return and you end up with a few brass solids.

Never heard of Brass bullets

Melting your brass into bullets would result in the bullet being too hard and cause chamber pressure to be excessive when fired.

Even if I used a mold with several cannelures?

Yes, still too hard for the rifeling to score the bullet. Brass is a hard material.

I know there is a expensive machine that you can make .223 bullets using .22 lr cases, and there a couple of videos on youtube of guys doing it, so I am not sure. I have read of this several time in gun magazines also. I would say the safest way would be to sabot a brass bullet, but again i don't have the cahoonies to try this one.

Thanks grandpops for the info.
I really was curious cause I want to make bullets for my .50 Beowulf, they have a 350gr brass spitzer for this rifle but I cant find who makes it.

I'm with you cb I don't think I could try that with .223

I found some brass bullets for muzzle loaders, but they are used with sabots to engage the rifling. I believe they were marketed by Knight. I found them on the Midway web site.

Is this what you are looking for.

http://www.barnesbullets.com/produc...ed-solids/

Unfortunately no. The bullet I'm looking for is a 350gr brass spitzer basically for the .500 S&W. The .50cal Beowulf is made by Alexander Arms and they say the bullet is made by Hornady but Jason Hornady has denied this and its not on the Hornady website. Thank you for the aid in the search fellas.

Here in MO, you could only target or plink with them as they wouldn't be legal to hunt anything with.

why is that?

Hey Allen do you use standard lead mold equipment equipment to melt your brass or is it of some specialy type? Any and all information you have would be very helpfull

Kauntry, I don't try to melt brass. I just use certain cartrige caseings for jacket material. Such as, I will turn the rim off of .44 special cases, trim to the desired length, fill with lead and swage them. I also use .35 rem, and .45 acp brass, to swage bullets for my .45-70.  The .45 acp some times is a bit hard to swage down, but I have a cure for that problem too.
Allen

Lead melts around 621 F. Brass melts around 1600 F. Your lead mold equipment will not hold up to the temperatures needed to melt the brass.

Must be expanding type or hollow points to hunt with here in Mo.

Thanks guys, it seems like this is an impossible task. I guess I will just have to wait till I get the proper info on the bullets they use from Alexander Arms or the right part number from Hornady. I hope everyone has a great Valentines Day with their loved one.

Casting brass for such a small object as a bullet is not worth the time and effort, and a steel bullet mould will not be adequate for a brass casting. Brass does funny things when it is molten. Zinc and other alloyin materials burn out of it, and the slag produced melting brass would interfere with the casting process for a bullet. You would also have to use a fluxing/eutectic material to clean the metal, as well as allowing for shrinkage of the metal as it solidifies in the mould. You could not get any kind of production or quality trying to cast brass bullets at home, or even in a fairly good shop. I don't know of any foundries who would take on the job either. Too small a mould cavity and the risering/gating systems would defeat any cost effectiveness. Better to buy bullets made on an automatic screw machine or similar process and get the consistency the process can give.