Reeder Custom Guns - Flat nose tool for 32 caliber bullets?

How obnoxious would it be to come up with a flat nose tool (similar to your 22lr tool) for 32 caliber pistol bullets?

I have in mind using the 71 gr plated bullets from Berry's to make a flat nose 60-65 grain bullet. I'd load it to 1200 FPS for use in a 32 S&W long or 32 ACP carbine for small game.

https://www.berrysmfg.com/product/bp-32-312-71gr-rn

Obviously, casting could achieve a similar goal, but circumsizing the berry's bullets would be easier, faster, cheaper, simpler, etc.

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using Berry's Plated Bullets.

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Loaded with a heavy load of Blue Dot and fired into a bucket of sand.

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Shooting into sand only shows how well they expand in sand. I haven't shot anything living and breathing with them yet.

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Of a Lee push through sizer. I can adjust it in the press. The bullet sizer supports the bullet, mandrel is centered in the die. I use it to swage hollow points into cast bullets. Paco Kelly made an ingenious .22 RF tool sort of like it. Where I got the idea.

I also have ground the tips off FMJ 7.62x39 live ammo (probably not a smart thing to do) using a bench grinder. I went slow, not getting them hot, and just until you could see the lead core in the top. In AR it’s illegal to hunt with FMJ ammo. We were making hunting ammo before you could buy domestic soft points. It never hurt accuracy, eyeballing them to consistency.

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who tells of doing that with military ammo after WW1 ... Used it for killing deer and elk.

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Easy enough to do. The procedure is outlined in the old Dixie Gun Works catalog. Oil it, wrap it in leather, wrap tin foil around it, put it in a tin can you can close and toss it in the fire for an hour.

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for a Spanish box lock 10 ga. from stainless steel. They did not peen and worked well for me. I learned a lot. My gunsmith friend teaching me used "iron wire" to hold the pieces while we heated them up and coated them.

https://www.brownells.com/tools-cleaning/paint-metal-prep/metal-bluing/surface-hardenin...

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bullet would be completely different than our tool for lead bullets. I don't know of any pocket knife that would cut thru a jacketed bullet.

Flat nose tool for 32 caliber bullets?

I made one for the 9mm

I made some pointed mandrel to insert from the top

I have a letter from an old timer

Great idea, how did you harden it?

I haven't. I will case harden it though.

This stuff works very well. I made some firing pins

Making one that would slice off the nose of a jacketed

You have to use a file and if the tool isn't hardened

They’re plated not FMJ