Has anyone build a home made bullet feeder? I want to get into casting this spring and want to get a Star lubrisizer but don't want to feed the bullets by hand and I don't want to spend $700 on their bullet feeder/collator. How hard would it be to build a home made bullet feeder to drop 9mm cast bullets bottom down?
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bullet feeder
- Thread starter Furious
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I own one of the high end feeders for my luber/sizer (4000 rounds per hour); it is well made and very sensitive to adjustments. This machine would be extremely difficult to build on your own. There are other, slower versions designed for reloading machines that might serve your purpose or be easier to build. Try a Google search.
i've looked into it.
FAR more effort than it's worth. i cast for weeks, and usually spend a weekend sizing most everything i've got. i do have the bullet feeder for 9mm/.38, and it does let you go pretty damned fast (more of a confidence thing, keeps your fingers away from a hardened steel die and punch). for reference, it only took me an hour or so to size ~ 1400 158gr RNFP .38 boolits. even hand feeding them (like i do for .45acp), it was only ~ 3 hours to do ~ 3,000 230gr TC's.
unless you're doing massive volume casting (IE 06FFL / Manufacturer), the collator really isnt worthwhile.
FAR more effort than it's worth. i cast for weeks, and usually spend a weekend sizing most everything i've got. i do have the bullet feeder for 9mm/.38, and it does let you go pretty damned fast (more of a confidence thing, keeps your fingers away from a hardened steel die and punch). for reference, it only took me an hour or so to size ~ 1400 158gr RNFP .38 boolits. even hand feeding them (like i do for .45acp), it was only ~ 3 hours to do ~ 3,000 230gr TC's.
unless you're doing massive volume casting (IE 06FFL / Manufacturer), the collator really isnt worthwhile.
