Ammunition & Hand Loading > Cartridge and Shotshell reloading
Powder Coating Lead Bullets
unfy:
--- Quote from: bkoenig on March 28, 2013, 07:56:47 PM ---Question: If you coat a boolit is it still a boolit or is it now a bullet?
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Ballet ?
bkoenig:
--- Quote from: unfy on March 28, 2013, 08:13:31 PM ---
Ballet ?
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No, that's where my money goes when it's not buying guns for me.
My daughter, not me, you sickos......
Hank:
You guys got me interested in boolit casting...perhaps a morning boolit casting jam session, followed by a noon time BBQ get together? I wanna learn.
I keep a old stove in my small detached garage for the wife to do her canning. Lots of oven space and I have thought about a powder coat set up before...hmm
unfy:
--- Quote from: Hank on March 28, 2013, 09:21:03 PM ---I have thought about a powder coat set up before...hmm
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Whatever you cure your powder coat in you never cook in again, muck like anything that touches lead is never cooked with again....
Picked up a cheap toaster oven, some tools, and something else for the PC rig I wanna build. I'll be cutting, drilling, and all that other tool stuff tonight hehehehe :P.
Although I *can* simply use the aluminum foil method and get started ASAP if I really wanted to.
I'd rather get the rig built, though heh.
bkoenig:
I've been going back and forth whether it's even necessary to coat the bottom. FMJ's typically have an open bottom, and as long as the full bearing surface of the bullet is coated you shouldn't have any leading.
Now for bullets you want to expand, I think putting them nose down and coating the base is a good idea. You could then leave the nose uncoated which would facilitate expansion. I shoot truncated cone bullets almost exclusively in my 9mm's so that would be easy to do.
But, going back to the "fillet" of powder coat that forms around where the bullet rests on the foil.....if they're bottom down that little nub will pop right off when you run them through a sizer. So that gets me thinking again that a bare bottom :o is the way to go.
What I would really like to find is a good way to make cheap bullets out of soft lead for my 300 Blackout subsonic loads, that will expand when they hit and not be so dirty. Right now I'm shooting a pretty hard alloy for my subs, and while I don't get any barrel leading they introduce a lot of crud into my gas system, enough that if I don't lube the heck out of it my bolt carrier group will cake up and start malfunctioning after 50-75 of them. I think a lot of that is due to bullet lube, and I could get rid of that by powdercoating. Expansion would also be nice - last fall I shot the subs into a sandy hilside, with a 5 gallon bucked at 100 yards. They started tumbling as soon as they hit the front of the bucket and entered the berm sideways so they would still do some nasty damage, but they didn't expand. I'm hoping a pseudo jacketed soft alloy will.
Or maybe I'll just wait for Unfy to experiment and find the best way......
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