Has anyone tried powder coating soft lead swaged bullets?

[jamesp81]

I am considering getting the LAT-35 swaging press from RCE. Swaged bullets are, of course, soft lead which is typically not what you would use for hot loads in calibers like 357, 45-70, or any kind of rifle bullet.

Does powder coating more or less defeat this problem? Wondering if anyone has actually tried this and got good results.

[Conditor22]

I cast a bunch of 45/70 boolits around 12 bhn, powder-coated them then sent them to another member who swaged them. I would assume from this that you don't need pure lead boolits to swage.

PC helps with leading but is not a cure-all, I recall hearing that IF you push a PC'd pure lead boolit too fast it will "skid" on the rifling. Please correct me If I heard wrong

[John Boy]

The best alloy for a 45-70 is 1:16, range tested for accuracy and slump. Dan Theodore, gun crank identified this for the BPCR community

[mehavey]

See http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?409893-Pure-Lead-amp-PC&p=5001471&viewfull=1#post5001471

Pure Lead & PC
Peas & Carrots

[downzero]

My usual loads are 50% stick on wheel weights and 50% clip on with powdercoat, but I'd probably shoot pure lead as long as it was powdercoated, not sure it matters, at least not at any velocity I'd shoot it at (1300 and below out of revolvers, 1000 and below out of pistols, and I have never hot rodded a rifle load but I'd imagine I could get them going 15-1600 out of that).