it's just a question of spinning short segments of aluminum, copper, rod in an electric hand drill, lock the trigger, clamp the drill in the vise, and hold a file or dremel grinder up against the rod. brass or bronze rod would create illegal "AP" bullets, guys. make it pointed, with a large, conical hollow base cavity and load it hot, with Alliant Bullseye powder. Nothing else will cycle the slide reliably, and you'll need much larger than normal charges. Work up 1/2 grain at a time, miking the fired cases at the web and backing off 1/2 grain if you see bulging worse than the same brass with +P factory ammo. . Might even outpenetrate 160 gr swc's in the 357, actually.
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