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fingers284
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Brown primer seems to work well.
Looks like your ready for the commercial market....and they have a built-in brand name...350 gr Elk Turds...
Powder Coating - First Kick at the Can.
Made a trip to Princess Auto and Value Village today.
Is that powder the right stuff? All that is says is "Blue Paint Powder"?
What else do I need now, besides airsoft pellets?
The other question is... do I dare do this in my basement under my casting ventilation hood?
M
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First kick at the can today. 200gn 45ACP and 240gn 44s.
The first pass didn't coat well, ended up coating and cooking twice.
Some how ended up with an excess of powder that yielded the flanged rejects pictured. Can I just toss those back into my casting pot?
Not as pretty as other have posted, but not bad for a first go.
Interesting process.
M
Made a trip to Princess Auto and Value Village today.
Is that powder the right stuff? All that is says is "Blue Paint Powder"?
What else do I need now, besides airsoft pellets?
The other question is... do I dare do this in my basement under my casting ventilation hood?
M
EDIT:
First kick at the can today. 200gn 45ACP and 240gn 44s.
The first pass didn't coat well, ended up coating and cooking twice.
Some how ended up with an excess of powder that yielded the flanged rejects pictured. Can I just toss those back into my casting pot?
Not as pretty as other have posted, but not bad for a first go.
Interesting process.
M
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Bassmaster
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You're first go looks awesome. The blue is a favourite and easy to use. I always toss them back in....as long as it's being done outside.
You're over thinking this, you don't need pellets....been there, done that.
I'm using the Elvis Ammo method and get great results
You're over thinking this, you don't need pellets....been there, done that.
I'm using the Elvis Ammo method and get great results
I got rid of the pellets because they were not doing anything. When I pour my bullets out of the bucket I tumbled them in, I pour them into a dollar store metal strainer (fine like mosquito net) that I have sitting over a catch bucket and then dump the strainer onto the metal tray that goes in the oven. Gets rid of any excess powder and eliminates any of those blotches. I use the same powder and also the black version from Princess Auto. Lots of fun experimenting and I think it took me 3 times before I got the correct amount of powder to work right.
fingers284
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I chuck any rejects back in the pot on the next casting session, the only consideration to be aware of is that you will get a burnt black carbonized scum on top the melt that needs to be skimmed prior to using the melt.
Tried powder coating today. I like it! Some Lee 310gr with some Eastwood High Gloss black and some custom Mountain Mold 325gr in Eastwood Medium Green. Both for my .444 Marlin. Not bad for my first attempt. I think I would get a better coverage with a wider container to get more movement with the bullets. I used a yogurt container which is kind of skinny and tall.
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NB.nagantsniper
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can the cast bullets be used after powder coating but with out resizing ? example = i got some cast 190 grain bullets for my 308 mauser told they were made in a lee mold. then powder coated but nor sized safe or no?
Measure to be sure.
The measurement that you are interested in is the neck diameter. Measure a few cases fired in that rifle, then take the smallest size and you need to make sure there is at least 0.003" between the neck of your loaded cartridge necks and the chamber wall.
The measurement that you are interested in is the neck diameter. Measure a few cases fired in that rifle, then take the smallest size and you need to make sure there is at least 0.003" between the neck of your loaded cartridge necks and the chamber wall.
hometownhero
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Slug your barrel then measure said bullets. You will find out very quickly.
fingers284
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while I haven't pushed any over 1800 fps I have read lots of antidotal reports of lots of PC slugs being sent at well over 2000 and some up to 3000 without any leading...Go to CASTBOOLITS site and read the "alternative lube" section ( you'll want a week of time) for everything you could ever want to know about PC.
hometownhero
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I’ve ran mine with varget in 30-30 at just over 2000 without issue.
I cast about 1k of my 147gr. 9mm bullets last weekend. Today I got them powder coated with Phantom Glass Black and sized to .357". Now to load them up.
Fresh out of the toaster oven.
Sized.
And done.
The red on some of the bases is just powder from previous bullets I had done in Traffic Red. I just used the same parchment paper.
Auggie D.
Fresh out of the toaster oven.
Sized.
And done.
The red on some of the bases is just powder from previous bullets I had done in Traffic Red. I just used the same parchment paper.
Auggie D.
I have tried 308 and 7mm rem mag past 2000 cast/pc and while i didn't get leading it was god awful accuracy.
My best accuracy was 45-70 (405gr)around 1500fps and 44mag (270gr) at around 1600fps
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rhino519, I'm currently working on a 30-06 project to see just how fast I can push my cast bullets and still get good accuracy out to 100 yds. possibly 150 yds at most which is about as far as I can shoot in a real world situation in my part of the woods. My rifle is a Remington 770 with a 22" barrel topped with a 4 x16 x 44 scope. I started out doing a ladder test with several powders and a couple different Lee bullets and settled on the Lee 170 gr. FP and H-4198 powder, several loads basically shot the same group size regardless of powder charge and velocity. Here is a high an low target from my tests. Group size would probably be much better if I had a proper rest to shoot from at the time, but that situation will be remedied this coming weekend when I do some further testing. I have duplicate targets with the same bullet sized to .311" using the same charge weights and getting almost identical velocity and chrono readings.
This time around I have a new bullet to test with my HV loads, it's a NOE 30 XCB bullet. I cast up about 150 of the 30 XCB bullets last weekend. I only had a limited time to work with them so I just coated about ten each using Super Durable Clear and Popping Silver Vein gas checked and sized to .311" to see how they would turn out. I cast a random set of samples during the casting process and after they cooled I measure and weighed each set. The bullets across the sampling weighed between 167.0 and 167.3 grs. Two bullets from the mold using my micrometer measured .311" while the third bullet measured .311.5" The powder coating added around .002" to the diameter before sizing.
I will be doing a chamber test fit this week to see if the .311" dia. chambers easily if not I can go to .310" or down to .309' My Remington doesn't seem to have any accuracy issues regardless of if the bullet is sized to .311" or .309" or in between at least with the Lee 170 gr. I'm using H-4198 powder and the 2295 fps. MV average was about 4.9 grs. off the max change weight with 170 gr. bullets. If the bullet shoots as well as the lee with previous identical loads I'm going to push the envelope and go for 2500 fps. as long as the accuracy holds up.
NOE .311" 30 XCB 165 gr.
