What are the essential techniques for producing benchrest quality bullets?
Though somewhat outdated with regard to equipment, THE ACCURATE RIFLE, by Warren Page, and available again through Precision Shooting, is worth the price just for the bullet making comments offered by M.H. Walker and Emory Tooly; this info is timeless. I will not bore the reader with my own procedure. Assuming good jackets, degreasing and core seating are, in my opinion, the most critical steps in making precision bullets. The cores must not slip inside the jacket. Never squirt cores using a lube containing silicone. Removal of silicone can be very difficult, generally requiring one of the hard to get chlorinated hydrocarbon solvents. Cores should be washed a minimum of three times, the final wash always being via NEW (unused) solvent. Next, core seating must be done with a properly fitting punch. One must either have a selection of punches, in no greater than .0005″ increments, or size the core to fit the punch/jacket lot. The latter option (one or a limited number of punches) mandate
