Recovered powder coated boolits

[Friar_Tuck]

The snow has finally left and I was able to recover some of the boolits from this winter's shooting. It really confirmed the effectiveness of powder coating. Some are HP 30 caliber, and some are 9mm. There is also a couple of boolits that I bought from a supplier with another popular coating. I noticed that the powder coating held up great, while the other coating was gone wherever the rifling contacted the boolits.

[bangerjim]

Those look like mine....the few I have ever recovered!! PC still there but smeared by lead deformation. That stuff, when cured properly, is amazing!

Thanks for posting!

banger

[sundog]

What rises to the surface when they are remelted. I know that sounds like an odd question, but what does it take to skim it off? Will it burn or simply melt into a glob? Does it leave any adverse pot residue? Since I do not PC, nor know anyone who does, I have no way of knowing other than ask.

[bangerjim]

Been discussed many MANY times on here. PC just burns and floats on the top to be skimmed off. And NO....it is NOT a flux!

Just melt as normal and skim off the black carp. No pot residue, no goop, just black ash.

Try PC. Once you do you will dump all your grease stuff!

banger

[sundog]

Thanks, Banger. Might try it after I retire..., which is right around the corner!

[fingers284]

The snow has finally left and I was able to recover some of the boolits from this winter's shooting. It really confirmed the effectiveness of powder coating. Some are HP 30 caliber, and some are 9mm. There is also a couple of boolits that I bought from a supplier with another popular coating. I noticed that the powder coating held up great, while the other coating was gone wherever the rifling contacted the boolits.

Very interested to know the alloy and speed of those .30 cal.??

[Gamsek]

"Balistic media" was snow

[Walter Laich]

taking a turn at the next intersection...

How much snow do you need to keep the bullets from exiting? In Houston we only have Sundrifts and that's during July and August.

My gut feeling is like 50 ft of it (total guess) but then I've only heard about it in passing in posts on the site

thanks

[OS OK]

Look how that 'other' coating reveals the lead where the lands have engraved them…now look at the PC'd boolits…the lands are lubricated and the lead is not exposed.
I don't see a more convincing argument for PCing boolits!

OS OK

[OS OK]

taking a turn at the next intersection...

How much snow do you need to keep the bullets from exiting? In Houston we only have Sundrifts and that's during July and August.

My gut feeling is like 50 ft of it (total guess) but then I've only heard about it in passing in posts on the site

thanks

I remember when it snowed in Houston in ?1958?…about 4-6 inches out in Spring Branch…I left tracks across everybody's front yard all the way home from elementary school that day! First time I ever saw snow!

OS OK

[fingers284]

I live where we have snow cover for up to 6 or 7 mo. a yr. and have shot many rounds of both j-word and cast into the stuff. Undisturbed field snow will offer very little resistance to a bullet and most flat-angle entrance shots result in a bullet track many feet long and then a ricochet/skip to the next contact point sometimes many hundred of yards downrange. Bullets skip off snow much like flat rocks from water.

Shooting into a disturbed pile of snow such as we get from clearing yards is a different story. This snow becomes very dense, almost to an ice state, and works very efficiently as a temporary backstop. Handgun slugs usually stop in a couple of feet and rifle usually penetrate not much more than 4 ft or so.

[Walter Laich]

I live where we have snow cover for up to 6 or 7 mo. a yr. and have shot many rounds of both j-word and cast into the stuff. Undisturbed field snow will offer very little resistance to a bullet and most flat-angle entrance shots result in a bullet track many feet long and then a ricochet/skip to the next contact point sometimes many hundred of yards downrange. Bullets skip off snow much like flat rocks from water.

Shooting into a disturbed pile of snow such as we get from clearing yards is a different story. This snow becomes very dense, almost to an ice state, and works very efficiently as a temporary backstop. Handgun slugs usually stop in a couple of feet and rifle usually penetrate not much more than 4 ft or so.

Wow, I would have never guessed packed snow is such a good backstop--is that just Canadian snow or would UP snow work as well? (UP = Upper Peninsula--I have relatives in Michigan)

[leebuilder]

Yup its Canadian snow. Best backstop if thick enough.

These are four I found all reduced loads, into snow.
Yellow snow will stop them pretty quick too.
Be well

[fingers284]

Wow, I would have never guessed packed snow is such a good backstop--is that just Canadian snow or would UP snow work as well? (UP = Upper Peninsula--I have relatives in Michigan)

Snow is snow no matter where it is. If it is warm enough it will become soft and wet however if the outside ambient temp is cold enough to "keep" snow it will make a backstop.

LOL. Walt Ill make you a deal, we'll trade places for a few years...by then you'll know everything you don't want to know about the stuff and I'll get a chance to forget everything I know about it...I've had enough of the sh!t to last a lifetime...that and the -40 as well.

[Friar_Tuck]

Just got a fresh batch of "Northern Backstop Material" delivered from the sky today. If anyone wants to come get it, you can have it for free!

[jmorris]

And I just iced down the cooler. Kind of felt bad for my little girl she didn't get to see any snow this past winter.

[popper]

2 items in comparison of #1 & #13. Thickness of coating, and difference in boolit vs groove size. #1 appears thicker and closer to groove size, #13 thinner and oversized from the amount of Pb in the L.G.s. Note the separation at the L.G. that sometimes flies off. Wonder which is more accurate.

[Gamsek]

More snow melted....

[Smoke4320]

looks like your coating is doing its job well !

[Gamsek]

looks like your coating is doing its job well !

Smoke, its your powder(s), few even mixed with some other PC......your PC is helping "less successful" PCs to be used with ease....

130 grs 9mm SWC MP Mold fired through Glock into "regular" and compact snow. 1 to 3 meters of bullet travel...