PC cast for 35 Remington

[Mjdd23]

Maybe someone has experience with powder coated 200 grain cast boolits in a 336marlin. I am using a Lee mold I just got for Christmas. When I chamber the round it's tight and I can see the rifling on the boolit. I remember reading that these rifles may do this. I did shoot them and did not have any problems. The uncoated boolits chamber fine. Am I ok to keep shooting these with the powder coat? Thanks for any thoughts on this.

[earlmck]

If it chambers OK then you are good to go. If that rifling contact causes difficult chambering you might have to do something different. That is the boolit I use powdercoated in my 336 and a couple of Remingtons, but my 336 shows only slight resistance when chambering the powdercoated boolit.

[Mjdd23]

I think the powder coating is too thick. I am going to try to get a thinner coating next time. I use the dry tumble method and uniformity is hard for me to achieve. If there was a way to easily reduce the nose diameter that would be great. My case length is right at 1.910. Maybe I can go shorter as long as I'm not at max charge. Maybe I'm just over thinking this .

[Thin Man]

Why not try adjusting the COL of your loads to fit into the chamber without the "resistance" you are having. Seat the boolits a small amount deeper in the cases and experiment with this before changing your powder coat mixture or buying another mold. This may give you what you are looking to find.

[jcren]

After you stand em up, gently blow off the excess pc. A very thin film of powder clings to the bullet quite well and this eliminates flash at the base of the bullet.

[MyFlatline]

I load for 5 different Marlin 35's, on a couple , I have to seat the bullet just a tad deeper. If you are not near max, which you have said not, then you should have no issues. My best accuracy comes from a snug fit tho. FWIW

[rond]

I trim the brass shorter for all my Marlins, this allows crimping in the groove and keeps the boolit out of or just touching the rifling.

[ikarus1]

are you sizing these, or just as cast and coated? PC adds .001" per coat.....

[Mjdd23]

Thanks everyone for the replies. If I seat them deeper without trimming the case i will not be able to keep them in the crimp groove but i will try a few and give them a slight taper crimp and see how that works.
Next time I PC these I will pay more attention to the powder on the nose and keep it thin.
It was the first time I shot these particular boolits and was happy with the accuracy for the first time out.
I sized them with a Lee push thru and some were gas checked and some not.
I will try these ideas next time I reload. Probably this weekend and hopefully shoot them on Monday when I go to the range.