Powder coat 358 125 Lee flat nose in a 9mm High Point carbine.

[frkelly74]

Before and after picture. This is powdercoat HF red shake and baked. Red covers the best as others have observed. Bullseye was the powder. I sized them after powdercoat to .357 .3585+ , and .360. The .360 did chamber but there was some drag so I am calling it too large. The .3585 worked very well and the . 357 was indistinguishable from the larger. They worked way better than the 356 125 TC boolit that I tried first. There were key holes and wild misses and that mold is no longer on the menu. I believe I would be okay hunting hogs with this rig and this loading. I want to take a garden trowel and did up more slugs next time.

[Tackleberry41]

Issue you will run into is swaging down the bullets loading them. .357 using the standard .355 9mm expander they wont stay 357. The Lee expanders are a bit short anyways, so ends up swaging part of the bullet. I used a similar NOE 158gr bullet in my 9mm. Had alot of issues, keyholing etc.

[Moonie]

Issue you will run into is swaging down the bullets loading them. .357 using the standard .355 9mm expander they wont stay 357. The Lee expanders are a bit short anyways, so ends up swaging part of the bullet. I used a similar NOE 158gr bullet in my 9mm. Had alot of issues, keyholing etc.

That's why you use either a Lee 38 S&W expander or one from NOE.

[frkelly74]

I use a set of Hornady dies with a fixed expander plug and it seems to do a good enough job of expanding the neck so that the bullets don't get sized down . I don't see how to get the die apart to measure the expander but it is seeming to work. The 356 nominal boolits did seem to seat easily.

[crawfobj]

Nice work! What alloy was that and what did you shoot it into?

[frkelly74]

Scrap lead with a hint of tin, pretty soft in other words. I fired through a pumpkin into sandy dirt. At some point I will get to seeing how my groups are running. So far smashing pumpkins is as far as I have gotten. I was told by a local cop who stopped to see what I was up to that High Points will never hit anything and at the time I was shooting the .356 boolits which were not capable of hitting anything. I didn't argue with him but I knew that I was simply using the wrong boolit. I had another High Point when we were in Michigan and that one would hit what I wanted to hit and now so will this one. Still I am in the proof of concept stage and gaining confidence.

[crawfobj]

I have one in 45 that will hit whatever the nut behind the trigger points it at. Just wish it took 1911 mags.