Originally Posted by
HollowPoint
If Powder Coating is everything I've read it is, would it be logical to assume that one could simply make a smooth sided bullet and forego any lube grooves on a cast bullet?
For that matter, on rifle bullets, is the net gain sufficient to just do away with all the driving bands and lube grooves and form the mold cavities in the shape of a Boat Tailed Spitzer? With the Powder Coating being used as a synthetic jacket of sorts, it would seem like this would render the shooting of conventional cast bullets obsolete for those who aren't hardcore traditionalists.
Has anyone tried it yet with a smooth sided cast bullet; rifle or pistol? I did do a rudimentary search before asking and found nothing so I'm asking so I can read up on it before I waste any time on it myself. If it's already been tried and found not to work, I don't want to pull myself off of other interesting projects.
From all the elated posts I've read on Powder Coating bullets, I can't see why it wouldn't work with a paper-patching-type of bullet and the right alloy.
HollowPoint