Kelly Built From the Ground Up - Corbin In-House Bullet Manufacturing and Rapid Innovation Precision Starts Here — Inside Corbin's Bullet Manufacturing Operation There's a phrase that gets used a lot in the ammunition world: "vertically integrated." Companies slap it on their marketing and ...
Kelly When the Industry Calls for High Pressure - Corbin Builds the Tooling The Pressure Was Literally Off the Charts There's a conversation that happens in the ammunition world that most people never hear about. It happens in engineering labs, on machining floors, and in the...
Kelly Corbin and the Art of AP Projectile Tooling - High End Research and Development When the Phone Rang and Everything Changed There are calls that define a business. Calls that separate the companies that build good tooling from the ones that build the impossible. For Corbin Manufac...
Kelly Corbin Reign ACE Slugs Chosen by Applied Ballistics - Highest BC and Most Consistent PCP Slug Ever Tested Applied Ballistics Chooses the Corbin Reign ACE Series for Comprehensive Testing In the world of precision airgun shooting, ballistic coefficient (BC) is everything. It determines how efficiently a pr...
Kelly Corbin Precision Bullet Jackets - Consistency Custom Orders and Copper Blends The Jacket Is Where It All Begins Ask any serious bullet swager what separates a world-class projectile from an average one, and the answer almost always comes back to the jacket. The core can be perf...
Kelly Introducing the AirMarksman FRAG Fragmenting Hunting Slug Made by Corbin A New Chapter in Airgun Projectile Design For decades, airgun hunters have faced a fundamental tradeoff: precision slugs deliver accuracy and deep penetration, but lack the rapid energy transfer of a ...
Kelly Corbin Airgun Slugs Set BC Records Across 22 25 30 and 357 Calibers What Is Ballistic Coefficient and Why Does It Matter? Ballistic coefficient — BC — is the single most important number in long-range projectile performance. It describes how efficiently a projectile c...
Kelly Corbin Slugs Sweep the Podium at RMAC with 8 of the Top 10 The Results Are In — And They're Historic In a sport where fractions of a millimeter separate champions from the field, Corbin-swaged airgun slugs have done something remarkable: they've dominated the...
Kelly How to Make World-Class PCP Airgun Slugs at Home What Are PCP Airgun Slugs? PCP (Pre-Charged Pneumatic) airguns have undergone a revolution in recent years. Where pellets once reigned supreme, precision-swaged slugs have taken center stage in high-p...
How do you swage bullets? Bullet swaging is a method of using pressure to form a bullet, which is the inert metal portion of the cartridge (which becomes a projectile when fired) by using pressure to flow the materials at room...
About Corbin's Lead Tip Forming Die The Lead Tip Forming die (LT-1) is similar in appearance to the core seating die (CS-1) except for these two features: The lead tip die has a larger diameter cavity, to accept the finished bullet. The...
Copper Strip Jacket Production Calculations The following is a chart of production output for a given material input (that is, how many bullets or jackets you can make with a certain number of pounds of copper strip, lead wire, etc.). Naturally...
