HiTek coating failure?

Steve51 said:

You did not mention the BHN hardness of the coated bullets you were using.
I use some very similar loads that you are using but I use different hardness bullets depending on the loading.

For Example:
1.) I use 240 grain coated lead bullets with 6.6 grains & 7.0 grains of Unique but I use bullets that are 12 BHN hardness and have no problems. If I used 18 BHN hardness bullets, I had leading.

2.) I also use Accurate #9 (19.0 Gr) for hotter magnum loads but use 18 BHN hardness 240 grain bullets with no problem but if I would use 12 BHN hardness 240 grain bullets, I would have problems.

I have never used Accurate #5 powder.

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Obturation said:

I don't do 44s anymore, @jmorris covered it pretty well. I use the dry powder type hi tek for my cast and also use bullets from mbc, ckb & Brazos - no problems. Typically I use a lot of alliant 2400 & imr4198 but also use my fair share of hodgdons clays , h110, trailboss .

My impression is that the coating is off. I see you're in Illinois , by chance are you in northern IL ? If so definitely check out ckb, he's got a farm out near Harvard and makes great bullets. He's a super friendly guy and if you stopped by for a box of bullets in sure he'll talk to you a while and his bullets are for sure good to go. Reason I know he's doing it all right is that I've sent some of hos 250 grain rnfp .452 bullets out at 1850 fps and had no issue.

My opinion is that of the bullets I've bought , Brazos is the least consistent and a lot of them are wrinkled but they work fine and don't leave residue either .

I'm interested in this thread as I shoot a lot of coated bullets and I'm sure we can get this thing figured out.

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