Brian Williams
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Anybody moly coat Lead SWC for handguns, if so how do they shoot and does it cut down on leading.
shooting moly-coated handgun bullets
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Dry lube, like Hornady uses on their swaged lead bullets, and slow buring powders like 2400 have worked well for me to eliminate leading.
I've heard a lot of negatives about moly, such as it's toxic, expensive and promotes rust formation.
I've heard a lot of negatives about moly, such as it's toxic, expensive and promotes rust formation.
Bear Creek makes a line of lead bullets coated with a poly/moly mix of some sort. I get mine from a friend, so I can't give a good online reference for them. They are supposed to be popular with the IPSC crowd here in Southern California.
I've probably gone through 10K of the coated 200g .45 SWC in my Kimber. I've noticed two things about these bullets -
1. They shoot really really clean - I have almost no leading. I clean the gun very rarely.
2. When I used a friends chrono, the loads were running about 50-75 fps slower than the load book indicated (~840 fps). My friend says that since the coating is so slippery, there is less friction, and that you need to work up to more powder to meet major. For my purposes, slower is OK, so I stay with pretty standard loads (5.5 g W231, WLP).
I've probably gone through 10K of the coated 200g .45 SWC in my Kimber. I've noticed two things about these bullets -
1. They shoot really really clean - I have almost no leading. I clean the gun very rarely.
2. When I used a friends chrono, the loads were running about 50-75 fps slower than the load book indicated (~840 fps). My friend says that since the coating is so slippery, there is less friction, and that you need to work up to more powder to meet major. For my purposes, slower is OK, so I stay with pretty standard loads (5.5 g W231, WLP).
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