Brass cutting

I've been driving around with mine in my car .

BUT, as you correctly noted i deliberately made mine look like a fired primer, plus I only drilled the brass bar just beyond the bullet so the bottom three inches or so is solid, and in addition the bullet is only a loose interference fit, so it can be pulled by hand to prove the dummy case is solid/inert.

My firearms enquiry officer is very picky, I don't want to upset him! .

Five years is indeed the mandatory sentence for many Firearms Act 1968 offences, and it is an absolute offence - possession is possession, with little mitigation.

Nope, centrepunch isn't necessary, yours can be proved to be inert/ a replica. It's a lump of stainless and copper that looks like a cartridge, nothing else.

I only dimpled the base of mine to look like a primer strike because i am a nerd .

Mines solid ...and heavy...I 've shrunk my bullet bit in with heat on the case , a lot , the bullet just slipped in ! ..it won't come out now without mullering it .I'll give it to him quickly .. then he can have any problems !!

Blimey ... I have a lot of old ME mags I read , and i was going to have a go at a "Victorian ladies folding muff pistol " , that was articled ... Maybe not now

A 'muff pistol'? .

We'll just leave that right there .

The other day, I bumped into an Engineer who had made a 105mm WW1 canon replica, with blank shells to match. The original was 110mm, but under French law 110mm and above are now illegal to own (privately) in working order, so he made it 105mm which is OK ! Great place to live over here.
BobH

That's a very short clergyman!

If you've a bench grinder with a fine (- ish) wheel, you can use the side of the wheel to grind a zero-rake platform on the drill lip no more than about 1/2 mm wide. Then you can quickly return the drill to standard if it's too fiddly or expensive to keep a separate set for brass.

I've always worked on about 300 ft/min or 100 m/min for the most usual CZ121 brass, which is free-cutting with a discontinuous chip (bits go everywhere as has been said!). There are tougher brasses like CZ106 which I've always machined a bit more like mild steel - about 100 ft. or 30 m/min, a bit of top rake and sometimes bundling swarf ribbons. All for offhand-ground HSS tools.

Mick

Thanks for bringing the thread back on track

These things are a great idea !! Just the thing to give to your Mother-in-law.to show how much you care,or to that nabour who gets up your nose all the time !

Might try making one myself,although my turning skills are not that good, still---------------------?

Nice job,all of them.

Nah, looks more like a scaled-up Kalashnikov round (7,62 x 39) to me... :D