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Good day for swaging bullets. - Kurt - 01-27-2014 I had a bunch of .44 Gibbs bullets cast That have been sitting for a while so I used them for cores for the .454 swage die and made some 490 gr .45 gibbs bullets. What winter borbone will do to a feller I needed some for the .45-70 in case I can find a silhouette match some place this summer of maybe spring. Since I have all this clean snow I shot a bunch of them in the snow but I might not see them before May RE: Good day for swaging bullets. - Don McDowell - 01-27-2014 You made them to a .454 diameter? RE: Good day for swaging bullets. - Kurt - 01-27-2014 Yup!! They sure look good now wonder if they will shoot RE: Good day for swaging bullets. - Don McDowell - 01-27-2014 Only one way to find out. RE: Good day for swaging bullets. - Kurt - 01-28-2014 Yup I think these 490 gr will work well in the .45-70 for silhouette. Turned these .432's Into these .445's RE: Good day for swaging bullets. - Don McDowell - 01-28-2014 Yes those look good, maybe they'll shoot past 600 now? If nothing else they'ld sure make good sillouette bullets for those so inclined to mess around with a boring ol 45.