First time powder coating

[Intel6]

Those are some very pretty bullets. That surface is so smooth. Are you spraying the PC? I don’t think I have gotten that slick of a result shaking, dumping and baking.

No I am not spraying those but I am standing them up on their bases after shaking then baking. I shake and bake some of my handgun bullets but I am big on aesthetics so most of the time I stand my bullets up for the smooth coat. Easy to do when they are .458" & .501"

 

[RBHarter]

Yeah, Duke gets like that when it's time to go for a ride.

Why's the dog busting out the lipstick ? lol

 

[462]

Why's the dog busting out the lipstick ? lol

Duke's will soon be nine, but going for a ride gets him as excited as I would get when following tight-skirted girls down a high school hallway.

 

[Ian]

I don't use dessicant. It's humid as heck here much of the year and my shop collects moisture due to lack of soffit vents. When I run a batch it's usually raining and outside chores are on hold. If the powder doesn't want to stick I shake harder, never had a problem except with matted or the colors generally known not to coat well with the shake/bake method of application.

I maintain that static electricity isn't the principle mechanism at play to adhere the powder, it is physical impingement that embeds powder into the bullet's surface, then more can easily adhere to the base coat via static cling. The longer I shake, the thicker the coat. If I just swirl the bullets they get dusty but not really coated.

Periodically I will sift out the bbs and dump the residual powder/lead dust/copper flakes out and start fresh. I do this about every 15-20 batches.

 

[popper]

ASBBs wear and contaminate the powder too.

 

[bruce381]

Getting great responses that I can't add anything to. You did ask about Eastwood squirrel grey PC. I started with (and am still using) a grey from Eastwood, not sure if it is Squirrel or not but I like it.

Here are some .458 SOCOM bullets coated in it.


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And some .500 S&W bullets coated out in the sunlight.


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you guys are getting me thinking about this again I may have to make up some again they look so nice.
maybe the zombie green.

 

[Gary]

Getting great responses that I can't add anything to. You did ask about Eastwood squirrel grey PC. I started with (and am still using) a grey from Eastwood, not sure if it is Squirrel or not but I like it.

Here are some .458 SOCOM bullets coated in it.


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And some .500 S&W bullets coated out in the sunlight.


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What mold did you use for the 458 on the left, the flat topped one?

 

[RBHarter]

Duke's will soon be nine, but going for a ride gets him as excited as I would get when following tight-skirted girls down a high school hallway.

Just trying to skirt the barnyard on the way back to PG .

 

[Ian]

you guys are getting me thinking about this again I may have to make up some again they look so nice.
maybe the zombie green.

@bruce381 , Powder Buy The Pound Kawasaki Green TGIC works well. 350⁰ cure. I do these by the bucket full.

 

[L Ross]

This has become my favorite. All the benefits of PC with the traditional look of cast.

Mr. Coates, the Court would like to know, have you ever equalled or exceeded the accuracy level you demonstrated on your historic video, of <2MOA with conventional cast/lubed/and checked bullets at 500 yards using powder coated bullets?

I am teasing a bit but at the same time for me Walter established a goal that I thought was unattainable. Yet with some attention to detail, and shooting a similar rifle, I was able to get 1 1/2 MOA at 440 and I am going to figure out how to stretch my range another 60 yards to make it an official 500.

 

[Joshua]

Yet with some attention to detail, and shooting a similar rifle, I was able to get 1 1/2 MOA at 440

No Video, then it didn’t happen!

We are all gonna need body cams when we go to the range from now on!!!

 

[waco]

I have very limited experience shooting pc rifle bullets. I have not shot any past 100 yards, and those results we pretty dismal.

 

[waco]

Ian would be the guy to talk to. He is getting great speed and very good accuracy with pc in his AR-10

 

[Mitty38]

I'd have to fill the room with water to get anywhere close to 45%.
usually when I cast in the dead of winter I have a gallon pot of water steaming away on the wood stove.

Then you could make us all some primers while you were at it.

 

[bruce381]

@bruce381 , Powder Buy The Pound Kawasaki Green TGIC works well. 350⁰ cure. I do these by the bucket full.

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yeah thats the one I have from "smoke" guy

 

[fiver]

you get the cups and the compound and i'll figure out a way to fill them..

 

[L Ross]

I have very limited experience shooting pc rifle bullets. I have not shot any past 100 yards, and those results we pretty dismal.

That makes me very happy, thanks.

 

[waco]

That makes me very happy, thanks.

Granted I was running those .308 loads over 2500fps. I think the bullet could have been sized a bit smaller(.310” maybe) and seated a bit deeper to give a bit of jump instead of being jammed into the lands.

 

[Ian]

All day long at 100. Only shot 6-8 at 400, was keeping them on a rectangle silhouette by aiming at an imaginary point about 4-5' high.

Suppressed, 18" barrel, plastic lower with 6-position stock and tube, fed from the magazine, cold clean barrel start. Military brass 1F in a machine gun, no special prep other than ream pockets and trim/chamfer and FL size in a neck bushing die. Bullets visually sorted only. Easy peasy.

 

[bruce381]

cowboy boots with a zipper in TX is that legal?