how to have a never ending supply of powder 😁

[Walter Laich]

buy a powder color that turns out to be horrible in your eyes

I've PC 1000s of bullets and the powder seems to grow in its container

I mix it with other powders and the color keeps coming to the surface

and to top it off . . .

I'm too cheap to throw it out so I just keep using it.

If we could make electricity from it we could power the entire world

[Recycled bullet]

Spill the beans what is the secret powder

[pworley1]

I have noticed the same thing with some yellow I have I have a life time supply of it.

[Doughty]

Mine is orange. Too cheap to throw it out. Keep trying to mix it. Orange and black is not too bad. Kind of a rust color, maybe.

[Finster101]

For me it is a tan. I hate the color, but it coats well. I do mix it with other colors with a varying degree of success. Funny I can't see it when it is going 1000 plus feet a second.

Finally remembered, "Bacon Grease" is what Smoke called it.

[Walter Laich]

Spill the beans what is the secret powder

zombie green

[405grain]

I have a pound of emerald green powder that won't coat bullets worth a darned. I add it to some other colors that do coat really well and it makes them not coat worth a darn too. No matter how cheap I am, at some point certain powders need to get sent to the trash. It's nice to make bullets that look good, but I'll take a butt ugly color any day if it works great.

[jonp]

Mustard yellow. Not a fan.

[Walter Laich]

I did find that adding an additional color does make the mixture adhere to the bullets better

always seemed the zombie green was not the best at staying on the bullets

of course, I may just be coming up with reasons to pitch this powder but as my wife tells me, "You are so much the child of a child of the Depression."

and she is so right.

[Texas by God]

A member here gave me some ugly brownish orangeish powder to learn with.
It works fine for my inexperienced self.
But it’s not pretty!


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[Charlie Horse]

Traffic Purple horrified me at first, but I've come to love it. It works so well.

We need a powder named "Red Headed Stepchild".

[Recycled bullet]

That's funny mine never-ending powder was Eastwood lime green it took thousands and thousands of 9 mm bullets to use it up.

Eventually I found that if I cast them hard sized them 358 and shot them slow from the 77 357 that rifle actually shoot well.

[beemer]

I have Eastwood powders, I bought black then read it didn't work well and it didn't. A little is mixed with other colors to use it up, seems a little bit doesn't hurt anything. I had two Lee 158 gr. molds so I cut the gas check shank off one and made it 140 grs. You can't tell the difference when loaded so one is done in ford blue and the other with a little black mixed in, color coded I guess. A little black in chrome looks nice as does chrome with a dash of ford blue. Might have to buy a few more pounds to use the black up.

Just having fun playing around with all this stuff.

[Walter Laich]

. . .

Just having fun playing around with all this stuff.

I get a kick out of mixing and matching--never know what goes to be the finished product

I also do this to tell one baking session from another--not that it matters but I've convinced myself that's important

[WILCO]

zombie green

I like that!!!!!!!!!!

[6622729]

I have a lifetime supply of an Eastwood white that doesnt stick at all. I have several translucent Eastwood powders on hand from other projects that stick great. So, I mix the white with the translucent and get cool looking speckled pastel colors that stick great.

[Walter Laich]

somewhere down the trail I was gifted with a pound of gray--this is not from Smoke or any other dealer, just a gift in the mail.

I've found about equal parts zombie green and this gray really drops the intense green color and does a great job of adhering

still have about 1/3 of a lb of the zombie green to go

[2TM101]

I bought an Eastwood "Sample Pack" because the overall price per pound was cheaper than anything else I could find. So I have not so far been picky about the colors I'm using.

Since then I have leared that Eastwood makes copper color (that makes it look like you have jacketed bullets when you don't) and also a clear that makes it look like you have conventionally lubed bullets. Tough I'm not sure how you tell if the bullets are adequately covered in that case.

[Outer Rondacker]

I have several pounds of Eastwood in loads of different colors and it all does not work well with tumble coat. I was getting a frame powder coated and the guy gave me a bunch and here it sits.

[Winger Ed.]

A member here gave me some ugly brownish orangeish powder to learn with.
It works fine for my inexperienced self.
But it’s not pretty!

That's what you get when dumping colors together.
Any of the reds, blues/greens make some sort of purple/brown-ish something
if there is a color in the mix with a little black/gray in it.