[Brewski]

Anyone do their own moly coating on cast pistol bullets? I really like Bear Creek bullets and I’m wondering if I could coat my own cast lead bullets?

[AlamoShooter]

I did Molly coat on 223 bullets several years back. = the method I was given had porcelain pellets the same size as the slots in the separator. so it was one big PITA to separate the bullets from the Molly and the pellets.

4 years later I still find things in my garage with Molly stuck to it. never again.

[pinger]

I've moly coated a ton of jacketed rifle bullets with great success. Pistol bullets, not so many. I experimented with the coating like precision/bear creek bullets. The trick is that the fine moly powder is suspended in a carrier solution, then applied to the bullet to dry. Finding the right carrier that will dry in the right amount of time, and bond the moly to the bullet is where i gave up. I've tried several things, but after the mess and aggravation, i just lube/size my cast bullets as normal.

I would be interested to see how it is really done though....

[Sean Gaines]

sounds messy and tedious, plus figure what your time is worth, you may find it easier and cheaper to just buy. after reading this post a lightbulb went off : ) I wonder if someone like bear creek or the other companies who moly coat there bullets could do it for you for a fee. If you were close to one, it might be cost effective, but if you have to ship then, may no be worth it

This post has been edited by PAPER KILLER: 07 April 2009 - 05:27 AM

[gm iprod]

Tried it.

WIll not be doing it again.

Better to get some good quality consistant hardness lead (if casting yourself) and use one of the really good wax based lubricants like Red Rooster etc etc.

Moly works brilliantly with Jacketed and I still do it. But I could not get consistancy out of the lead bullets. I even tried commercially made bullets.

Buy them and save the hassle.

[Flexmoney]

Mod note: Moved thread from chrono section.

[jmorris]

I had a Lyman kit for about a week. The bullets would come out looking like black mirrors and proceed to leave black spider webs in the barrel. Precision and Bear creek and others are using something other than plain moly.

[sargenv]

I tried using the Lyman moly on my own cast bullets and someone suggested that I just tumble lube them with Johnson Paste wax.. well, the results were fantastic. I am no longer trying to use moly for my own and the smoke coming off of the JPW'ed cast bullets is not much more than the Moly coated bullets were. I cast mine to about 15 BHN and it leaves no leading in my 610 revolver at minor. I have yet to try these at major in a semi-auto though I figure that might be forthcoming. I had the mold made up so it would throw the bullets at .401". So far so good..

[anachronism]

Try Frankford "Mold Release" instead. This is about the only thing I've found it to be good for.