Originally Posted by
THE_ANTIDOTE
Is pc worth it...you bet it is! A couple years ago I bought a Star lube sizer on ebay for just around $300 with a .452 die and that's it...no top punch, no lube, no heater, no hardware to mount it. A few months ago I purchased an Eastwood powder coat gun, 5 different 1/2 lb powders, ordered a NOE STAR bushing adapter and 4 bushings one for each of my calibers...did it all for close to $250.I recently sold the .452 die on ebay for $75 and used that money to order several more bushings. I can fully coat or dust 1 or 1,000 bullets in 3-10 minutes including setup. If I dust, I don't even bother sizing...just bake, load, and shoot. If I fully coat to increase bullet diameter, it is only for that one undersized mold and will only size the first few , but if they prove to fit my needs I won't even size the rest which saves me time. At times I will cast 8-9 different calibers/styles of bullets each with it's own lube design, imagine if I had to setup 8-9 dies to match the lube needs for each of those bullets...if it was even possible to find all the dies. With pc, I can set up bullets blindly and just spray them all at once. I mostly shoot long barreled firearms, for me, powder coat has proven to be more durable and offers better performance in my guns. I have shot lubed and powder coated bullets out of my 45-90 26" and have found the lubed bullet in jugs of water with no sign of lube at all (did the lube melt in the case while in the sun, burn off immediately during firing, halfway down the barrel, upon exit, in mid flight, during impact..who knows...) whereas the powder coated although scuffed up...looks pretty much in tact. For me, it is well worth it, there is more research/engineering going on with powder coat than bullet lube that I can't see it not being worth trying. It also makes it easier to find my bullets/lead if I am going to reclaim it.