Cheapest coated 158gr 38/357 bullet?

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I load 148 gr wad cutters for 38 plinking. Super accurate, cheap and easy to load. And they make nice clean rounds holes in paper. Looks like a hole punch. Load both hollow base wad cutter and double end WC. Several companies offer them. Missouri bullet has them for about $80.00 per thousand.

 

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For 38 spl light/sub sonic loads fine with cast bullets. If you want a cleaner load, less smoke and bore fowling coated bullets are your best bet with respect to cost
 
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What exactly happens with shooting a coated bullet through a sealed can?

Is it unburned powder residue or is it the coating flaking off?

I know for a fact powder coated bullets the coating does not flake off.
You can smash them with a hammer and the coating stays on.
I have smashed a store bought coated bullet and the coating flaked off like it was only paint from a spray can.

Maybe if that flaking is the issue you could order a sample pack from a manufacturer and give them a tap or smash or shoot them.

I cast my own bullets and powder coat them in a toaster oven and really enjoy them and they are the utmost inexpensive bullets to shoot.
I have been collecting lead for decades though so that helps.
 
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Red Hi-Tek coated bullet I believe is what I smashed and the coating flaked right off like paint.
I do not have a muzzle device like you so can't confirm anything first hand on a suppressor.

I have had muzzle brakes and flash hiders and removed all of them and shelved those.

They would allow carbon to build up on the crown of the barrel and my accuracy suffered so I removed them.
 

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