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I mostly sat out the last panic. I did manage some replenishment of dwindling stock not too long ago. Looks like pistol powder is getting hit again .... at least it's not the shameless pilfered shelves like the last time

Blarby, We might have slightly different definitions for "Convenience" here, but I can assure you we place similar value on it. We have the star lube sizer to contend with and Ive gone head to head with one. Well prepared, where the goal is 1000 bullets ready for loading, I still lost by...

couple interested in loading coated for rifles .... DO IT. You might need a powder switch, you might need a lyman M die. but when all is said and done, it works better than you'd believe. again .. get off the fence and do it.

I'm up to 2700 FPS with powder coated out of a rifle, and I see no reason I cannot finesse it to 3K. coatings do fail, but you'll never do it with a handgun.

Bah .... that's just guntan lotion

It really depends on how we invest ourselves in prep work. Nothing will be as quick and easy as tumble lube. if one takes their time and thinks through the process, one can make logical support fixtures that'll take much of the pain out of PC and place it somewhere between the ease of tumble...

Thank you. I made that particular mold myself. seems to be, cheap, easy, and effective .... pick two. But the common theme between all methods is in the largely overlooked prep work that offers the most pain reduction. Take your time crafting any tool you'll use more than twice.

I looked up that particular bullet. That one might have some fun geometry to work with. The spray method will add some uniformity to the coat and allow you to get closer to your oal. That rather acute angle offered by the ogive might be hard to completely overcome. Truth be told, I don't...

The shake and bake method let's you take it for a test drive. If it proves itself to you, as I'm sure it will, you just get serious about it. An air compressor and an electrostatic spray gun isn't a bad investment, and can provide service for other things around the house. The secret is in...

one of my favorites on my end was this one. this is an in process pic showing one of my coating / baking fixtures. that seems to be the unsung hero of the game, the jigs and fixtures we have to cook up. This is just drilled 16 Ga steel with nails welded in place, but these serve the purpose...

I'm at the load pack and fire stage at the wholesale level too. Got enough cast coated sized and stashed to load everything 4X over. Guess it's time to sort out the stuff that worked from the concepts in progress, organize the notes and share tips and tricks. Hopefully that effort will...

I have cooked up a few plates for baking. No single one is a true universal go to solution. The drawing has me thinking about a CPU ZIF socket. This is the real coating game. Jigs and fixtures for baking. We might all do well to tour various professional powder coat shops to see how they...

and with that goes a few very worthwhile powders that should be treated spray only. in my last string of testing, two powders rose to the top of the heap. All Powder Paints Arctic Cat Green, and their Teflon Slip Black. Both have properties that helped me gain another 200 FPS without coating...

It's good to see the OP's make a return. I see we have all been busy. Ive gotten the redline up to 2700 FPS. better coatings and harder alloys can finesse a few hundred more out of it, albeit at the expense of expansion. theres some dangerous game loads in that equation.

Looking pretty worthy. A little cleaner than what I pop out of my plates. Today I am doing some full plastic jacket in the base down method to refine the rack and iron base method. The way I see it, the base needs not to be an ideal coat. Under cured wouldn't hurt anything as it needs only...

How's that quench idea working so far?

it may craze the finish some, but I really don't see any serious issues with it. I don't really see a pressing need to water quench in most cases. this stuff works some miracles. Ive burned up more than a little of my powder reserve whipping the minions. If a coating fails, it will deposit its...

yeah... just like the use of Teflon on bullets in some states. the stuff is a godsend for what we are doing here and now. its not 50 state legal though. in fact, coatings in general might fall under fire in some parts of California. I haven't read the law there as yet. Not particularly...

I assume you are using a plate with holes drilled in it. Coat and bake directly on it. Sand off the flash when you're done snapping them out of the plate. Then use the previous suggestion for load development and general range use. Should spare a lot of pain.

Coat them base down, rack em like billiards nose down after the bake, spray the bases the, and use an iron and a sheet of parchment to set the base coat. The gun works through a sheet of parchment if that helps you any