Okay so here's my situation. Many many years ago I laid in a huge supply of what was the standard back then regular Blue Lube cast bullets. I got them from a couple of major manufacturers including one that was going out of business so I bought everything that I could get my hands on. My idea was to have a good supply of bullets for a rainy day , so I never loaded much out of this stock, I've just let them sit in their cans. Well given all of the shortages we are currently experiencing it seems like I might be a good idea to start preparing these to be able to load.
So now I have ammo can upon ammo can of cast bullets, did you know that a standard 50 cal can with one layer of cardboard covering the inside will hold almost exactly 2500 200 grain semi wadcutter 45?
But I have a problem. A lot of my shooting is done in indoor ranges. And cast bullet Lube does make more smoke in indoor ranges than powder coating. So now I'm contemplating how much effort would it take 2 clean the standard blue bullet Lube off of these and to powder coat them.
I expect I will process these by the ammo can in batches, doing whatever I need to do to clean off the old Lube and then running them through my powder coat oven to add the new coating, and then back into the ammo can for future loading.
So anybody have some insight on what the best way might be to remove the lube from these bullets, has anybody done this before?