Translucent Copper Powder Coat

waco

Springfield, Oregon
I want to see results Gary! I aslmost got some copper penny from Eastwood.
 

Ian

Notorious member
I chickened out on the copper penney because it needs a base color coat like white or chrome.....but bullets are silver- ish so maybe it will work? Please keep us posted Gary!
 

Gary

SE Kansas
Finally got time to cast and PC a few for "show and tell". These are copper coated with Smokes pwd. I did a shake and bake fix in a Cool Whip bowl WITHOUT plastic BB's. Fresh cast coated VERY well but I did my usual double coat for sizing more than anything else cause the first coat covered good. First pic is after one coat and the second pic is obviously after two.
 

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Ian

Notorious member
If you're using two coats anyway, you could use the recommended "chrome" base coat and topcoat with the copper penny, I bet they'd REALLY pop then!
 

Ian

Notorious member
Fiddlesticks. Might have to spray, or partial bake the first coat. Too much trouble for shiny copper bullets? Yeah, probably so. Just the translucent copper looks pretty good on fresh bullets.
 

Missionary

Well-Known Member
Gary … they look good. I also bought some and look forward to using it next summer.
Never have tried double coating as so far no lead issues at 2200 fps with a 275 grain in our 375 H&H. Other rifles and pistols also.
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
Gary
When i use BLL to size my bullets pre PC. I get better powder coverage. Visually The bullets look better, but i do not find the bullet dia. being any different. Just a suggestion.
 

Gary

SE Kansas
I've never used any lube prior to or after PC. Doesn't seem necessary to me. Kevin, I probably won't even run these through a sizer as they finished off, after PC, to .311'ish.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
it's in the 8$ a lb. area here.
we have a ton of honey producers, but none of them are really local they truck the Bee's in and out.
I have considered getting the stuff and starting my own box but with my luck they'd swarm off somewhere 3 day's in.
 

Kevin Stenberg

Well-Known Member
Most of the wifes relatives are Bee Keepers. 2 out of the 3 ship there bees south every winter. So they can make Honey all year long.
The relatives also go south with their bees.
 

Reloader762

Active Member
Got some of the Translucent Copper from Smoke about two weeks ago, I think it turned out great.
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I coated up a batch of my 30 XCB bullets and shot some test loads using H-4198, in my budget Rem. 30-06 an scope. I only shot this load at 50 yds. but I could shoot the same five shot group all day long. MV was just a couple feet under 2300 fps. Just have to load up another batch and go to the public range and shoot at some distance.
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Gary

SE Kansas
Very nice. Coating with two coats gave mine a deeper shine, but one coat definitely is enough to get the job done. Very good PC powder, very fine texture. Mine were tumbled in a cool whip container and NO BB'S. First time using that technique and the pwd seemed to "jumped" onto the bullets. Also, these bullets were freshly cast, that probably had something to do with the coating.
 

Reloader762

Active Member
The single coat can show a few clear spots but there is still a clear carrier coating on the bullets, that happens quiet often with lighter or more transparent colors I would probably have to install the gas checks first before doing a second coating or I wouldn't be able to get them on.

I've put a few gas check on some problematic bullets before I powder coated them the first time and they came out great. I want to shoot some identical loads with the exposed check vs. the powder coated check and see if I get different results.

Looking forward to seeing how your coated bullets shoot.