Swift A-Frame Revolver and Pistol Bullets

Expand Like Crazy and Drive Deep

- Layne Simpson

By offering the necessary tools and supplies for making premium-grade jacketed bullets, Dave Corbin of Corbin Mfg. has long blazed a trail for those with the ambition to produce unique designs and start their own small businesses. Among the more imaginative was Lee Reed of Quinter, Kansas, who introduced the A-Frame bonded-core rifle bullet around 1984. An integral frame in the thick copper jacket separates a soft lead core into two sections, with the front section bonded to the jacket.

Reed’s timing was good because Bill Steigers was never able to come close to meeting the demand for his Bitterroot Bonded Core (BBC) bullets. I still have 19 of those 7mm bullets remaining from 20 received, along with a note often included by Bill to those of us who purchased them. “To conserve BBC bullets, sight in your rifle with a Nosler Partition of the same weight. Return any left over after your hunt for a full refund, as many other hunters are on my waiting list.” Swift Bullet Company is now owned by Bill Hober with the production of A-Frame handgun bullets beginning in 1996.