At this rate, new ideas are coming along faster than I can try them.
I can't wait to get a day off that's not already spoken for so I can cast some boolits to try this out.
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I have to laugh at the thought of walmart running out of black airsoft pellets as word gets out from this forum. Same thing happened to harbor freight red P/C once the word got out that it was perfect for coating boolits. I have to keep an eye on this forum to see which stock for manufactures I need to put in my portfolio.
Ok, those look awesome! You guys are gonna get me intrigued enough to try this someday, I can feel it coming.
Just who came up with the idea to do this anyway? Somebody had to be first! And is this just for pistol bullets, or will it work good for rifle bullets too? Curious because they're so much faster.
I do think it's time to make me a pair of these.
('found this pic up in the powdercoat thread)
I don't think these would leave a mark on the nose, especially if I could grab the boolits by the lube groove when fishing them out of the BBs.
KE4GWE - - - - - - Colt 1860, it just feels right.
I vote for this being the hanleyfan method.
Too bad I just cast and coated almost all of what I have ingotized so far. If I want to try this out I'm going to have to bust out the fish fryer again and make me up some more ingots.
If you make these (cheeeeep HF needle nose) heat and bend a little farther back and at 45 degrees. The 45 angle lets you get at the various boolits laying in there. My hemostats are 45 and work perfect. I tried standard n-nose earlier and gave up do to wrist cramps trying to get a those little buggers!
The cheaper the better, as they need to be soft to bend. Heat them up to orange-red and bend over.
Check your local 99cent store also! They have lots of VERY cheeeeeep tools!
bangerjim
If the needle nose leave a slight mark on the nose what difference does it make, there's no contact with the rifling?
Dick
What about a latex/nitrile glove with business/finger area of glove dipped in powder. That would seem fastest and some have described using that method. Does that work as well?
Any marks on the nose, any, no matter how ugly, .... as long as you don't deform the boolit enough to affect flight or weight..... does not make a difference! There doesn't need to be ANY powder on the nose or base at all.... unless you just like the look.
I have tried gloves with powdered fingertips and it does work and it really speeds things up, but it does brush some off the boolit. The pliers do work much better at saving the nose. Again, for usefulness...... it doesn't matter! If you wanna get fingerprints all over the nose, even if you were to scrape.... say 90% of the powder off..... go right ahead. It'll let you pick em out and stand them up much faster. And they'll still shoot great with zero leading.
KE4GWE - - - - - - Colt 1860, it just feels right.
Well......if your fingers are that small. I cannot dig around in a container full of coated boolits ( and now also bb's) and efficiently get ahold of the boolits without removing a bunch of the powder, even with my fingertips dipped in powder.
The pliers/tweezers/hemostats method is so fast and simple, with minimum powder removal. Try it. You will be amazed.
I do wear latex gloves when handling bulk bare lead boolits B4 coating.
banger
Black has always been harder to find than the lighter weight cheaper ammo. It is the only one I shoot in all my Airsoft guns. You do not need tons of it. That small bottle (if you can find is) will be enough forever!
Don't forget to check Cabellas and Bass Pro and Dicks.
banger
Are you still heating the bullets first
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I carry a Nuke50 because cleaning up the mess is Silly !!
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I am not crazy my mom had me tested
Theres a fine line between genius and crazy .. I'm that line
and depending on the day I might just step over that line !!!
Anybody try this with a non #5 container? Or find a shallow wide mouth screw on #5? I got the last black at my WW, NOT cheap (1/2 the HF sprayer cost). Cottage cheese (med size, #5) about 1/2 full of ASBB (new acronym?) and 21 165 gr 30 cal. 4eaping teaspoons of powder. Worked perfectly, although I haven't cooked yet. Probably could double the boolit load. These were cast 3 mo. ago, uncleaned, unsized. Can't imagine trying to shake a tub of real BBs & boolits. Who gets the diamond boolit award for this one? Hanleyfan?
Whatever!
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 |