Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Powder Coating Lead Bullets
unfy:
In preparation for tomorrow.... grabbing usb pen microscope, my barrel currently looks like:
GreyGeek:
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unfy:
Went to the range today. Yay.
I don't believe there's any leading in the barrel. Below are a couple of pics from the microscope (which makes things look much worse than they might be heh). I'll run some cleaning patches through in a sec and report on any lead flakes etc.
Accuracy: I was starving, kinda shaking, so that's hard to tell. At 25 feet my first 5 were about par for me. It then continued to get worse. I did shoot one resting on the lane bench, it was as it should be.
Stopped at hardware store to pick up a cabinet lazy susan thing. $5. A couple 12 inch round pizza pans from wally world for under a $1 each, and a couple cookie sheets for under a $1 each. Pizza rounds & lazy susan: turn table. Will be attaching the ground clamp to the bottom and assuring some conductivity to the top. Should make PC application easier.
Also started pricing an oven build.... more on that in the other thread after gun cleaning heh.
The pics:
DangerousDrummer:
My first small batch turned out perfect. I made a tray out of heavy sheet metal, drilled holes in a grid pattern on 1 " centers, staggering the rows and welded roofing nails in the holes. I then chucked my lyman case sizer in the lathe and drilled small holes in the points of the bullets creating mini hollow points. Placed the bullets point down on the nails and powder coated a small batch. Popped them in the toaster and twenty minutes later I got yellow bullets. I tried muzzleloader (REAL, rifling engraved at loading) and you can just barely see where the bullet was kissing the lands. I think this changes everything for bullet casters. No more gas checks, no more sabots for muzzleloaders, no more leading. Here are pictures from today's efforts..
In the oven
Out of the oven (no aluminum foil used, and lifted off with no effort)
Single bullet, if you look close you can see the rifling marks.
The mini hollow points.
Tomorrow I will modify the base plug of my 458 SOCOM mold to create a small hole in the base. Those bullets I will coat nose up. I'm loving this!
unfy:
Dangerous: awesome!!! Love the pics too. Did you actually fire the muzzle loader or cleaning rod ram a poncho'd bullet through ?
And... ponchos ? nah, not a great name.
Cleaning my sig p229 40s&w barrel... after about the 20 rounds i put through it at the range... there was *some* lead, but not much, and far less than missouri bullet company lead (that were shot at lower loads even!).
I'll note my coat wasn't perfect, and I didn't get the bases coated.
I'll be taking a different approach to base coating ... don't feel like chucking a drill to anything and don't want lead shavings. The approach i've got *may* work, we'll see. Sadly, my approach will be much more mold-specific heh.
Off to mark stuff and make plans ;)
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