Powder Coated 9 mm Cast Lead With Soda Can Gas Checks
The picture below is of 1000 9mm 125 grain cast bullets.
The bullets were cast in a MAGNA Caster unit.
This machine in the manual mode will make a 1000 bullets in about 2 1/2 hours.
The powder coating material and the powder coating gun were purchased from "Powder By The Pound".
The powder coating took about 3 hours since I can only do 150 at a time in a counter top convection oven purchased at Target.
The process is the usually method a 14 gage steel plate covered in aluminum foil with a very little lube sparingly speared on the aluminum foil to keep the powder coat from sticking too well to the aluminum foil.
The container on the right are the bullets removed from the foil, the middle container are the bullets after going thru the Lee push thru sizer and the left container are the bullets with the soda can gas checks installed after being push thru Lee sizer upside down with a Harbor Freight 1/2 ton press.
With the powder coat and the soda can gas check on a plain base cast lead bullet, the cartridge can be loaded any where in the loading data.
The loads for jacket bullets can be used without getting lead in the barrel.
It takes some time to go thru the process but the bullets are very good and hold up as if they were jacket bullets.