Expedient-Homemade-Handgun-Ammo.pdf

Expedient Homemade Handgun Ammo

EXPEDIENT

HOMEMADE

If old grandpa left you his old 12

gauge, or you want to shoot that

old pistol you came across while

cleaning the attic (and don’t have

any ammo!) what do you do? If

you can’t buy ammo, or even

primers and re-loading presses

from a store, what do you do??

You will need to start from

scratch!

Expedient Homemade Ammo

provides all the info’ you need to

make simple effective ammo. At

the end of the day, you don’t need

‘Presses or Primers’ to construct

you own improvised ammo with

just a few simple tools !

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MATERIALS REQUIRED

1) Brass tube.

2) Curtain rings.

3) Solder paint.

4) Tube cutter.

5) Vernier gauge.

6) Gas torch.

7) 30 x 30mm Square tube.

8) Hardwood section.

9) Attention to detail.

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We will start by manufacturing .38 Special cartridge cases.

The .38 Special is one of the most popular revolver cartridges in the

world, supplying ammunition to a countless array of handguns, so it

seems the appropriate cartridge to start with.

To manufacture our homemade .38 cartridges we require some lengths

of thin walled brass tube. This material is readily available from most

good hobby and craft shops. The tubing I am using is manufactured in

the U.S.A. For the various calibre of ammunition we will construct in

this book we require tube in the following sizes;

15/32” - 13/32” - 3/8” - 7/16” - and 11/32” .

For the .38 cartridge case a length of 3/8” tube is required. The vernier

gauge is set to 30mm, and as shown in the photos below, used to scribe

a line around the tube. This is achieved by simply rotating the tube

against the sharp point of the gauge.

This section of tube, measuring 30mm, is now removed. The scribe mark

is the point at which the tube is cut. Brass tube is harder to cut than

ordinary copper plumbing tube so a good quality plumbers tube cutter

is required. I emphasize ‘good quality’. It is perfectly possible to buy a

good quality cutter for around £10. It is well worth spending an extra few

pounds as it will make tube cutting an easier prospect.

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Mark the tube.

Cut the tube.

The tube cutter should be carefully rotated clockwise and anti-clockwise

so as to allow the section of tube we require to be removed. It is

important not to rush the tube cutting procedure as this may cause the

cutting wheel to wander leading to an inaccurately cut case.

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Square the

case end.

It is of great importance to ensure that one end of the tube section (from

here on referred to as the case) is perfectly square. To achieve this the

case is placed in a drill press and the spinning case lowered onto a flat

file, as illustrated in the above photo. It should be noted that the drill

chuck should be tightened by hand only so as not to distort the

roundness of the case. This method of case trimming is just as accurate

as using a small lathe and no different in principle to the case trimmers

used in conventional re-loading practices.

Measure the case.

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