Copper Powder Coat Bullets

Coated bullet reloading information the blue bullets llc reloading coated bullets is slightly different than loading a jacketed or lead bullet.

Copper powder coat bullets.

This process completely encapsulates the bullet. They might not be as smokeless as copper jacketed or plated bullets but they re darn close. What exactly is powder coating. Coating prevents lead to bore contact thus virtually eliminating lead fouling.

But for our purposes powder coating involves taking a freshly cast bullet not lubed the right diameter and baking on powdered paint in an oven. Initial testing has proven the polymer coated bullets to be more accurate with a dramatic decrease in smoke. Our soft cast bullets are cast from pure virgin 20 1 alloy and will measure about 9 bhn. The polymer coated bullets can be pushed faster with no leading.

X treme bullets are proudly made out of the finest materials available in the united states in order to ensure performance delivered down range with each and every shot. Lastly it is good practice to use lead load data for the powder coated bullets. The process to make our polymer coated bullets is a little slower and time consuming but well worth the effort for those looking for such a product. The lead wire is then swaged into a core.

Casting lead alloy bullets and preparing them for shooting requires a great deal of work. Coated bullets reduce or eliminate this smoke. Always on the lookout for easier and inexpensive methods of readying cast bullets and improving their use i started coating cast bullets with powder while doing so removed the requirement of lubricating bullets it was not a time saving process compared to lubricating by running them through a sizer. If you strip or damage the coating it may caused lead fouling in your barrel increased smoke and or decreased accuracy.

Something that many bullet casters will tell you they do but when i have checked their samples they measure harder and have a dull finish of a bullet that has. It is coating a metal part with powdered paint using heat and is popular in industrial applications. The hi tek coating molecularly bonds to bullet totally encapsulating it. Acme hi tek coated bullets.

If you are looking to get into casting bullets or just looking for bullets to shoot with the jacketed options drying up powder coated bullets are a great option. Benefits of shooting acme coated bullets include. Coating prevents lead to bore contact. Bullets feed well in automated bullet feeders.

Powder coated bullets and loaded cartridges. Sometimes the target disappears in the smoke after a few rapidly fired rounds. Coated in red hi tek coating and nicknamed lipstick bullets the benefits of acme coated bullets include. All bullets are cast with 92 6 2 alloy then coated with hitek coating that molecularly bonds to the bullet.

Our process starts with a lead billet that is extruded into wire. The bottom line is to preserve the coating. These are jacketed copper coated soft cast bullets for sale only and not loaded ammunition. The smoke can be so bad you might think you re shooting black powder.