Yes, i've cast and swaged bullets for many years now. I have 6 or more Corbin and SAS swage press' and everything to go with them. Also a lot of casting equipment.

You need to swage pure lead, so unless you going to keep the V quite low, cast bullets would be better as you can harden the lead a bit.

For one pistol like the 45acp. i'd cast the bullets, BUT one thing about swageing bullets, you can just make your own jacketed bullets to the weight and design of your chooseing. You can also make up your own "jacketed" rifle bullets later on if you want to too.

Std. reloading press' don't make very good swage press', because they don't have the mechanical advantage to develoupe the pressure needed to make bullets.

Haveing said that, it's true you CAN swage some smaller bullets on std. reloading press'.

Drilling Man