Thanks for sharing all your thoughts and ideas. Now I guess I will go buy some.
Any suggestions on what you think is the best?
Any suggestions on what you think is the best?
Red harbor freight was my favorite coated completly and was glass smooth.
The Harbor freight white is not smooth and does not cover well but that may not be seen on target paper.
Heck wrinkled bullets will shoot as good as non wrinkled ones.
I researched a bunch and the Eastwood light Ford blue was the favorite among many.
I have to agree.
Here is a little quick google search on the subject.
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/archive/index.php/t-419158.html
While you are at the cast/coat game you can try softer alloys with the powder coat and see how they shoot.
I do not do hard cast.
The hardest lead I use is clip on wheel weight.
I will mix 50/50 of that and soft lead for pistols other than full house 357 magnum loads.
The Harbor freight white is not smooth and does not cover well but that may not be seen on target paper.
Heck wrinkled bullets will shoot as good as non wrinkled ones.
I researched a bunch and the Eastwood light Ford blue was the favorite among many.
I have to agree.
Here is a little quick google search on the subject.
https://castboolits.gunloads.com/archive/index.php/t-419158.html
While you are at the cast/coat game you can try softer alloys with the powder coat and see how they shoot.
I do not do hard cast.
The hardest lead I use is clip on wheel weight.
I will mix 50/50 of that and soft lead for pistols other than full house 357 magnum loads.
I go there often ( castboolits) good information. I usually mix 2 to 1, wheel weights/ pure lead. Looking forward to PC instead of lubing. Thanks
I use a variation of shake and bake. I fill an old fry daddy basket with bullets. I put the whole thing in my coating oven for a few minutes to heat the bullets up. You want the bullets hot enough that the way are a little uncomfortable to hold. Then I dump the bullets into a plastic bucket, shake them up with powder, dump and sift. Then i pour all the bullets onto a cookie sheet covered in parchment paper and bake. When they are done I dump the lot into a bucket of water and stir them by hand to break them up. Run them through a Lee sizer and load.
Hasn’t steered me wrong yet.
I could be wrong but I don't worry much about the lead - most is wheel weights and range scrap - I think when I dump the PCd bullets in the sink of water they harden quite a bit - sometimes rifle bullets will break off at the top of a crimped neck in the rare case that I need to pull them - so I suspect they are pretty hard - and I doubt it has any effect on how they shoot = JMO
I bought Sherwin-Williams Superdurable PC in tan and red off eBay. I have coated over a thousand 9mm sized for 38 spec with the tan. shooting at 900 fps they have been very accurate in a S&W M15 for training of beginner shooters. I have cast a couple hundred of the Lee 30 cal 230 grn for subsonic, sorted COWW with about a pound of 50/50 solder in my 20# Lee bottom pour. I loaded up 35 of the 30 cal but somehow miss read the Lil Gun load data. all the rounds I shot were sonic, maybe 1200fps, 100% cycle and bolt hold back on last round in clip. shooting steel with the 30 cal and the lead rings were round on the white paint. bullets seen to be traveling straight. loading up another 30 or so at a grain less powder. I have cut up a cooling rack to fit into my toaster oven pan to hold the bullets upright setting on their base. pistol bullets I just pour and separate out on the parchment paper. rifle bullets I figure need a little more precision.
I build a PVC 6" pipe drum to use on my Lyman rotary tumbler base to coat the bullets. a few of the black plastic BBs. 10 minutes of rotating and very uniform coated bullets.
I build a PVC 6" pipe drum to use on my Lyman rotary tumbler base to coat the bullets. a few of the black plastic BBs. 10 minutes of rotating and very uniform coated bullets.
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Nice.
Have you tried less time in the tumbler and see if they are coated well?
