Powdercoating jacketed bullets?

[rondog]

Has anybody tried powdercoating jacketed bullets to make them a little fatter to better fit a loose barrel? I'd be spraying, not shaking. .44 magnum, fwiw.

[Motor]

I have not tried it but don't see why it would not work especially at pistol velocity.

Guys do use PC to increase the diameter of their cast bullets. I do this myself for my Finn M39(s) cast boolit sub-sonic ammo.

Motor

[C. Latch]

First people were removing lube from cast to PC them, now they're PC'ing jacketed bullets.....

Next I expect people to just PC their bores and shoot naked bullets.

[Don Fischer]

I think I read in here some where that the powder doesn't do well on gas check's. I'd think it wouldn't on jacketed bullet's either.

[rondog]

The reason I'm asking is to fatten up some JSP's to see if my Winchester likes them better. It seems to do better with slightly larger bullets.

[clearcut]

I double coat .309's with shake n bake so they fit in 7.65. I gas check after PC on other sizes.

CC

[OS OK]

Has anybody tried powdercoating jacketed bullets to make them a little fatter to better fit a loose barrel? I'd be spraying, not shaking. .44 magnum, fwiw.

Just how loose, how much do you need to add to the O.D.?
That's not a bad idea, worth trying to get it to be a shooter…why not slug and cast to fit?
With a high quality Clear Hi Gloss…and by tapping my tweezers smartly to knock off any excess clinging PC I have been coating/cast with an increase of .002" to .0028" consistently within the same batches. Not much variation but it is there for sure. This is an O.D. overall measurement increase.
Clean those J-types with acetone first. Pay attention to the cure temp./time.
OS OK

[Walter Laich]

I find I get a thicker coat BBDT rather than spraying. Just saying...

[OS OK]

I find I get a thicker coat BBDT rather than spraying. Just saying...

"I've thought this for some time but ain't said nutin before Walt…With that hat you're wearing…it makes a 'friendly' looking picture. Course…everybody's friendly down Texas way…just don't tick-em off…right?"

charlie

[mozeppa]

First people were removing lube from cast to PC them, now they're PC'ing jacketed bullets.....

Next I expect people to just PC their bores and shoot naked bullets.

too late .....already tried that.

also tried mixing pc powder with molten alloy.... gums up the bottom pour.

[Smoke4320]

Otis marketed a product for about 2 years to coat your bore. Kind of a ceramic coating. Total flop

[runfiverun]

I remember that stuff...

I'm gonna take a stab and say we are talking about a model 94 Winchester trapper model which has about 27 lands and grooves in it and would benefit from something like .432+ diameter boolits/bullets.

I have one of these somewhere and have to resort to making 430 diameter soft jacketed bullets to get mine to shoot well.
I use a 2 step system and 40 S&W cases for jackets I had the die made to 430 so my browning 92 could use the same bullets since it has an issue with OAL.
but the softer thinner home made bullets do shoot well.

[Wild Bill 7]

I powder coated some (shake and bake) 230 fmj's, 6 to be exact. I didn't resize them just loaded with Green Dot and I didn't even log them in my book. They coated well and I just shot them this past Friday at the range. Coated them cause a friend wanted to see if it would work and it did. Probably won't do it again though. Just experimenting.

[Maxx]

I have just for the fun of it,,,

[Dragonheart]

Yes we tried coating some plated bullets just to see if if it was possible to fire them at a higher velocity. The coating bonds to the plating, but the bond of the thin plating itself to the core doesn't resist the spinoff at higher pressure, so nothing gained. But just to increase the overall size of a bullet it should work.

[Shadow9mm]

Would the coating make the bullet more slippery vs the copper? would you get better velocity? I have some berrys 124g .356... I could coat a few and resize to .356 and load them identically and run them over the chrono.

[Silvercreek Farmer]

Old thread, but my thought was doing it just to reduce copper fouling.

[cwlongshot]

I have to seat gc on a few bullets BEFORE powder coating. These bullets size fine and PC stays on GC.

I dont see why it would not work on a jacketed. As long as the bullets are clean.

CW

[BentSprings]

I coat over all of my gaschecks, it sticks just fine even on very mean loads. Why let raw copper touch the bore?

[rockrat]

I have coated some bullets designed for the 350 legend, so I could shoot them in a 357 max. Did just fine