ammo holder

[Thadrick]

So I was waiting for leather to dry a little and thought I would fiddle with this.

 The removed material at the bottom needs to be the diameter of the cartridge (in this case .429" -44 mag)  The oval punch should be close to that plus the thickness of the leather doubled (.429 + leather doubled)  The stitching down the case wall needs to be measured with a couple strait edges holding the leather and bullet down to a flat surface. In my attempt, my punched hole is a little too long. The stitching holes I just eyeballed the radious going under the bullet. 

 Knowing these measurements I think I could build a pattern.

Then the stitching on the back piece I think would be like a normal piece except the radioused part under the bullet might need to be punched during assembly?

On a bottle neck case,  Ill probably have to work that out but I think the oval hole might need to be  higher?

Edited 12 hours ago by Thadrick

[dikman]

I wonder if that slit Bruce mentions is actually the result of a narrow sliver of leather being removed? If that was done top and bottom it would allow the leather to be pushed together to bulge up a bit, then stitched and finally wet formed.

[Thadrick]

 Not exactly the same but kinda the same idea.

 I have a couple other projects going on and then Ill see if I can figure out something like this for my 7 SAUM.

[Thadrick]