Kelly Beyond the Grease Groove - Introducing Corbin Boreglide A Groove With a Job to Do Long before smokeless powder, before jacketed bullets, and before anyone worried about chronograph readings or ballistic coefficients, shooters faced a simpler challenge: kee... Bullet Swaging Lead Bullets Precision Dies
Kelly Shaping the Standard - How Corbin Has Engineered the Evolution of Lead Bullet Nose Profiles The Shape That Decides Everything Every lead bullet tells you what it's designed to do before it ever leaves the barrel. The clue is in the nose. Round noses feed smoothly through lever guns and revol... Bullet Swaging Lead Bullets Precision Dies
Kelly 50 Years of American Precision - Corbin Manufacturing Since 1975 It Started in a Garage. It Changed an Industry. In 1975, in the heart of Southern Oregon, a small operation started in a garage with a singular obsession: build the most precise bullet-making equipmen... Bullet Swaging Precision Dies
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 ... Bullet Swaging Precision Dies
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... High Pressure
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... Bullet Swaging Precision Dies
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... Bullet Swaging Jacketed Bullets Precision Dies
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... Bullet Swaging
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... Lead Bullets Precision Dies
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... Jacketed Bullets Lead Bullets
What Is Bullet Swaging? “Swaging” is the process of forming projectiles—specifically bullets, not loaded cartridges—by using high pressure at room temperature to mold materials within a diamond-lapped, high-precision die. No... Bullet Swaging DIY Projects Diamond-lapped Dies High Pressure Jacketed Bullets Lead Bullets Precision Dies
About Corbin Bullet Balls Bullet Balls are precise diameter and weight polymer balls, available in five color-coded diameters, which can be used to make lighter-weight bullets by taking up some of the volume within a bullet ja... Bullet Swaging Precision Dies
