Powder Coat vs. Bullseye

[burbank.jung]

I developed some nice handgun loads using Bullseye but discovered last week that Bullseye powder reacts with the red pc I'm using. A caster from another forum linked me to some podcasts that are reporting it. Yet, there is no solution besides avoiding certain powders or finding the right pc.

Has anyone else experienced the reaction between BE and the PC that comes in contact with BE? Can that part of the pc base be sealed by Alox or a paper wad? I'm wondering what you bullet experts are doing.

 

[Brad]

The nitroglycerin can react with the PC
Store your load bullet up and don’t worry any longer.

TG can be even worse and I store PC coated ammo for many months and am yet to see any problems.

Don't invite trouble that isn’t there.

 

[fiver]

test it for yourself.
a spoon full of powder and a P/C bullet probably isn't that hard to find.

 

[Ian]

If the coating is polyester based and cured completely, it doesn't seem to be much of an issue. I load and store thousands of PC bullets on top of Reloder 7 and Titegroup, actually pulled a few after some years and no powder even stuck to the exposed bases.

 

[burbank.jung]

If the coating is polyester based and cured completely, it doesn't seem to be much of an issue. I load and store thousands of PC bullets on top of Reloder 7 and Titegroup, actually pulled a few after some years and no powder even stuck to the exposed bases.

Thanks. I'll look for that type of pc because I want to store some ammo aside so when I go to the range, I can just pick up my bag and go. This powder reaction to pc really shocked me.

 

[Tomme boy]

At first everyone was using harber freight red and it is an epoxy based powder coat. That reacts with certain powders. But as Ian said, if it is properly cured then it is a non issue.

I had a problem with using titegroup but it was my cooking temp was off. Once I found that and cooked the bullets at the right temp and long enough it has not been an issue.

Just make sure the PC you buy is polyester and you won't have a problem. Even if it does eat into the bullet you will never know it.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

At first everyone was using harber freight red and it is an epoxy based powder coat. That reacts with certain powders. But as Ian said, if it is properly cured then it is a non issue.

I had a problem with using titegroup but it was my cooking temp was off. Once I found that and cooked the bullets at the right temp and long enough it has not been an issue.

Just make sure the PC you buy is polyester and you won't have a problem. Even if it does eat into the bullet you will never know it.

This is 100% my take.

IMHO. Folks having issues are somewhere, not abiding by proper procedure.

I havent seen issue personally.

But dbl based powderes seem to be culprits.

CW

 

[Rick H]

I read about this and put PC'd bullets in pill vials with various powders and let them sit for months as a test. Some powders etched the pill vials but none stuck to or etched the Powder Coated bullets. As far as I am concerned it is another myth that got propagated. There may be some powder/powder coat combinations that don't work but I have not found them. By the way I typically mix Harbor Freight Red in with my "Smoke's Copper" in an attempt to use up the HF (mixed in about 1 part HF to 2 or 3 Smoke's) and I got no reaction with that.
I did get a reaction with VHT black paint and longshot powder. VHT is just rattle can spray paint for engine headers. The paint etched and melted. Some wag wrote about it in lieu of PC so I tried some as an experiment in my 40 S&W. It didn't work well (leaded like crazy) but every round went off.

 

[Hawk]

Check out this thread.

Powder coat varieties... under the lube section.​

A very good discussion on different powders and different PCs
On page 6, I start showing pick of lubed sticking to bullets.