As some of you may recall, I've been wanting to make a flat tipped version of my bullet. My basic design is to resize and form a .22 jacket into a hollow (and pointed) tip insert for a bullet. My desire is to flatten this tip so that it can make a shorter bullet (where that's needed) or a bullet to be used in a tubular magazine rifle.

Using my current tooling I'm able to make a .210 tip that is slightly concave - but works well in my dies.

My concern is that the tip, being metallic, the recoil in the magazine of a Winchester '94 AE in .356 may set off a magazine discharge (if the tips didn't line up squarely with the primer of the cartridge ahead).

On Saturday, I traded for a '94 AE in .356. With the deal, I got 1 1/2 boxes of ammo. I checked the diameter of my tips with the flat tips on the factory ammo, and found that mine were larger.

So what I want to do now is try a little experiment to see if there's any danger with my flat tips. What I'm thinking of doing is loading up some "dummy" rounds with live primers that weigh the same as a loaded rounds, and loading them into the tube magazine. Then firing live rounds off, and examining the rounds in the mag to see if they're marked in any way (or if the primer(s) have discharged). I would to do this several times if there are no marks at first.

What I want to know is if doing this would likely damage the gun, or cause personal injury?

Your input would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Rick

If you seat a bullet in the dummy round to bring its weight up to that of a live round, you may have a problem if the primer fires in the dummy and the bullet is driven out of the case.I'm not sure how much, if any, damage will occur.

Rick,
If you're willing to sacrifice a few cases, drill a coupla' 1/8" holes in the sides of the "dummy" cases and crimp the dummy bullets in TIGHT. If the primers fire, the bullets won't launch.