"Polymer coated boolits"

[beng]

Polymer coated on lead boolits...................Good or No Good???????????????? I have been looking at some polymer coated and was going to try. Was told, it's not good to shoot them someone else said it was okay!!!!!!! 45 Colt and .357, good to go or not???????? beng

[Eddie17]

I think your Polymer Coated bullets may be PCed, or power coated!
No problems with PC, do you have a better description of the bullets your talking about?

[Grmps]

Online some companies sell blue "polymer coated bullets" that are terrible.

PC (polyester) powder coated bullets
Hi-Tek coating is also a Polymer engineered specifically for coating bullets and has been used commercially for over 20 years.

Both are great products I and many others swear by them, they eliminate the need for messy lube

These are 2 VS vender/Sponsors that sell PC & Hi-Tek

Smoke 4320 http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?252509-VS-Hi-Quality-Powdercoating-Powder-For-sale

Hi-Performance Bullet Coatings

[beng]

There red coated by "Badman Bullets" beng

[Eddie17]

Just checked site out, they appear to be PC boolits in one form or another.
My PC’d bullets look better then the ones there site.
Buy a small amount see how they work, if you’d like.
Try to PC your own cast, my results are 100%.
My 2 cents.
Eddie17

[beng]

Sounds good to me beng

[Budzilla 19]

I pc my own cast boolits, that way I’m in control of quality!! I try to be a little ocd about pc of cast boolits to insure the best I can produce!! And, it’s sooooooooo easy to do!!! Just my .02

[BNE]

Definitely PC your own. Smokes powder works great and the Airsoft BB tumble method works well.

Just cleaned 4 guns that I shot this weekend using PC only. Other than some gunpowder residue, the barrels were clean.

[Meatpuppet]

Depends on your wants and needs. I personally get deep satisfaction casting, Powder Coating and Swaging my own projectiles. The time spent doing it is like time spent hunting... satisfying. Smoke's powders rock!

However, if you are not into that, or you are doing high volume shooting, purchasing commercial polycoated projectiles makes a lot of sense. For that reason I purchase all of my 9mm projectiles. I have settled on Eggleston Munitions (https://www.egglestonmunitions.com/) due to the quality of coating, colors (I use different colors for different weights) and ability to specify projectile dia size (in 9mm I can choose .356, .357, .358).

I have also been satisfied with The Blue Bullets (https://www.thebluebullets.com) and SNS Casting (http://www.snscasting.com/). But there are a lot of other options out there.

Done yourself or purchased commercial, properly applied Polycoat/PC or Hi-Tek can easily handle anything a 45 colt or 357 can put out.

[OS OK]

beng...If you decide to PC yourself, the following thread has a bunch of good information in it on 'hows' it done...just peruse the poll questions and see how everyone goes about it.

http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?326134-(2)-The-Devil-s-in-the-Details-gt-gt-gt-gt-gt-PC-Coatings-lt-lt-lt-lt-lt

Semper Fi Bud! . c h a r l i e

[mdi]

So much "odd" terminology floating around on forums it can be difficult to figger out what the OP is saying. I've read "polymer coating" can be from Hi-Tek to PC to even Nylon or Federal's Syntech (some even mention moly coating).

If the subject is Powder Coating, yep it does everything the manufacturer's say. Clean handling, clean shooting, no barrel leading, and accuracy equal to cast bullets. I have not noticed any objectionable odors from shooting PCed bullets, and barrel clean up is about the same as jacketed bullet use. I purchased some from Acme Bullets and then began PCing my own. It can be quite involved, but casting, processing bullets and shooting them is a part of my overall shooting hobby. My main "complaint" is handling the powder can get real messy. When tumbling, handling the bullets after coating, even with tweezers, can get powder on everything and a dedicated area for spraying is needed or "over spray" gets everywhere on everything (I have used fans, open doors and windows and sprayed in a large box, but Ill still find powder on my bench 12' away).