Anyone tired coating Pure lead and seeing how fast you could push it before it starts to lead?
Anyone tired coating Pure lead and seeing how fast you could push it before it starts to lead?
Our house is protected by the Good Lord and a gun and you might meet them both if you show up here not welcome son!
I tried that test with Piglet Coat and 9mm's and it resulted in a total failure. My impression was that the coating didn't matter as much as the softness of the boolit did. It seems like the soft boolits were being deformed in the bore, resulting in keyholing and horrible accuracy down range.
I'd be interested to see if Hi-Tek makes a difference, but I'm betting not.
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Been there done that. No discernable difference. I dont think it gets hot enough. Now quenching after every bake is not something I have tried. Seems like a bunch of work waiting to dry etc. Tell you what I have found.....Coating a very soft bullet and then traditionally lubing as well lets you run some really upper end stuff fast with no leading. Hot 41 mag or 44 so far. Still experimenting in this realm. Got some 41 mag 220 grain and some .308 ready to go right now. might be a day or so until I get to testing this some more. Would be nice to push these softer .308 above 2400 or so. We will see. Yes the .308 are gas checked as well. Triple redundancy I guess.
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Very interesting there Kweidner. That could be an option if you don't have any "hard" lead alloy. I would think sticking to COWW or Hardball alloy, and then coatinig it, would cover just about anything handgun related you would need. I used to run hardball full throttle in the 454 casull using speed green or Lotak Hard with no leading. Took a bit of work to get there, but I got it done!!
The advantage I am looking forward to is a cleaner reloading process. No matter how carfully I lube my boolits I still end up wiping bases off after lubing, and then wiping the loaded cartridge with mineral spirits after loading. This will get rid of that.
My coating should be here this week, and after I get past the learning curve I can experiment with rifle stuff.
The postal service has in their possession syringe kits for the following members:
Love Life
Prickett
Copper75
Mike Hughes
Kbstenberg
JD43
I'll have to wait until next week before I can ship anymore kits prior to receiving compensation for shipping cost. I'm on a (very!) limited income and I used up about a third of my weekly allowance to ship these six this morning.
I appreciate your patience, fellas. I'm doin' my best to get these syringe kits out to y'all so you can get started on this.
Oi, I can't wait to get started on this. I have everything I need short of a few sizing dies. Need to get my shop setup finished tomorrow...
lovelife,leadman. discover card burnt around the edge. It will be here in 4 days, Star mails tomorrow. $775.00 TTD. hehehehe, cant take it with ya. Can ya? You people are pushers. hehehe.
3month waite.
Gunoil- While your at it with the plastic, how about throwing a set of Detsch swage dies in 308 and 6mm on there for me?
I figured it was worth a try...
I didn't try pure (5BHN) lead. It is a bugger to get to fillout the mold correctly. I tried 10BHN in 9mm,40 and 45.
The 45 is fine. no worries. The 9mm and the 40 had no leading, but were not accurate. The 40 was the worst.
I have since moved to 15 BHN 92,6,2 alloy. 5 Lino and 5 Pure lead.
Going to do some waterdropping of WW/lead alloy 5 WW to 3 Purelead and see what happens. then coat them all for the 40S&W.
Hooroo.
Regards, Trevor.
Australia
I have some pure lead Lee 93gr RN coated up to try in my little H&R 32 S&W and my Nagant revolvers. Might shoot some of them thru my Contender 300 Whisper carbine barrel to see what happens at higher than 1,000 fps velocity.
I did water quench a 11 bhn alloy between coating and it had no effect on the hardness.
Last edited by leadman; 07-18-2013 at 12:33 AM.
I sure do not miss the alox smoke at the range. Hell, i can see.
No choking, people leaving, no headaches, no alox throat cancer, etc..
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |