coated bullets - J&M specialty products lube - what is it?

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J&M Specialty Products P/L HI-TEK Lub - from Australia .

Several companies are selling bullets with this coating. I'm trying to find more information out there on them, and my search Fu is apparently weak.

Are these a moly coating or one of the polymers?

anyone have any reference materials you could direct me to / or any experience with these?

Like many others, I often look for a "cheaper than jacketed" but "smokes less than lead" combination. For the most part I'm pretty happy with lead in my .45 and .38, but I've had lots of lube smoke issues with the 40, and leadding issues with the .357 which I have been unable at this point to alleviate. - aside from moving to plated, which has been working reasonably well

I've read a bunch of stuff about moly bullets and, if I understand correctly - the consensus seems to be that they do smoke less than lead, but moly is far tougher to get out of a barrel than copper or lead and is generally thought to be not worth the trouble.
 
They are polymers.

Castboolits.com has a long long thread on this - I wish I had a technique to do it at home, but it is a specialized process.
 
Hy Tek is a polymer. It takes the place of traditional lube on a lead bullet so there is no more smoke than a jacketed round and it leaves your gun just as clean. I am going to switch from lead to whichever coated bullet company has the best prices, probably Bayou Bullets. Go to YouTube and you can see videos of coated bullets being shot and how the coating is baked on to the bullets.
 
It depends on what you coat them with as to how specialized you want to get.

There are quite a few who are using some of the powder coatings sold by Harbor Freight. Some use the gun to apply some are simply tumbling and baking. Once baked they load and shoot like normal.

I have too many loading tools already or I would be all over it. I need to get some use out of the lubesizers I already have first though.

I do plan on looking into it a bit more but for now I'll keep putting up with the smoke.
 
I tried powder coating and copper plating before hi-TEK lube. Hi-TEK is much faster than PC and coats 100% of the bullet.
 
I have no idea the cost of casting your own bullets, Bayou Bullets is about as cheap as I've found, they do work and the company is GREAT to deal with.
 
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How did you coat them evenly?
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I built a little tumbler out of a small "D" shaped paint bucket from homedepot. I picked it because the shape would agitate and it has cheap liners that I can get locally.
 
My bullets are coated 100%.
I put fifty in a small HF rock tumbler, 1/2 teaspoon powder , run for two minutes, totally coated, bake at 400 degress for 20 min, then re-size---come out very nice.
Shot 120 thru my 45 Witness Match--no leading, fine accuracy.
My lube days are over:) Am now doing 9mm, 38 Super, 40 S&W, 38 Spl. .357 mag, 44 mag with fantastic results, all mid range to upper range loads.
I will also be using a PC gun to coat when I get my big oven, right now the dry tumble method is working fine.
And that's the way it is.:)
 
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