Thank you. Any links to how to do this and where to get the powder coating?
What to do with 3000+ cast unlubed .45 slugs?
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Thank you. Any links to how to do this and where to get the powder coating?
Read the first sticky in this forum. Lots of good info there.
Best Canadian source for powder is Emerald Coatings in Palmerston, ON: emeraldcoatings.com
While several of the powders work well the gold standard for complete coverage and ease of use is Tool Blue. Gloss Black and Clear also seem to work well. Unless you are using a powder coating gun the yellows, greens, whites and, to some extent reds don't seem to adhere that well and give spotty coverage.
In a pinch Princess Auto sells a limited number of coatings (blue & black) but generally the quality isn't as good as Emerald.
Make sure that whatever powder you pick gives a gloss finish as those are not abrasive.
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fingers284
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That is all true and appropriate to the question however in this case, with these slugs being .452 and if the purchaser is considering my suggestion to use them in 45-70 then the most important part of powder coating is multi coatings to bring the slug dia. up to .459 so they fit the bore...just needed to clarify.
Pita..to do this..sell them for use as they are…45 acp.
They are too light to work in any 45/70 barrel twist anyway..waste of time and money.
I'd say as high as $0.10 per projectile. You have to acknowledge that taylor made .45acp can be had for $0.40 per.
fingers284
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What do you mean by"work"? I use them in various guns...11grs.of Unique and I'm reaching out to 300yds. (I just shoot steel and haven't tried going farther).
saskgunowner101
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While I've never chubbed up a bullet from .452 to .458 with powder-coating it should be doable, and they would work. Tinker around enough and you can see how rifling twist and bullet speed and size are related. I'm sure the Greenhill thing would tell us everything we need to know.
fingers284
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Last fall, after we shot at Pebble Ridge and using my 6-24 mounted on the Cowboy, at 350 yrds I shot a "under 3" group with those 250's and with that 6-24 and a solid rest, I'm pretty sure head shots on gophers at 100 wouldn't be difficult
fingers284
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I follow a fairly strict regimen when bumping up the .452 slugs. I use both home cast WW alloy & commercial hard cast ( purchased from a commercial caster unlubed & unsized by him @ $0.06 each) interchangeable. With the coating bullet alloy doesn't seen to be an issue like it is with wax lubed slugs. Different powders will require more or less coatings ( at least 2 and sometimes 3 coatings) to get up to .460 or more, once they are all above .460 ( I will measure a handful out of a couple hundred bullets) I push every one through a .459 sizing die. The sizing die is left dry so no oils contaminates the coating. Some that take a hard push if the coating is a bit thick and some go through very easy but as long as the sides touch the die body I use them.
I should add that "shake& bake" puts a thicker coating per layer that the Electro-static gun seems to apply.
I wont deny it is a bit of a chore more than just using conventional lubed slugs but the lack of concern over alloy content from cast session to session with scavenged lead and the accuracy i can achieve wuthout heavy recoil and with very cheap to produce ammo make it viable for me.
saskgunowner101
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I might try this with some 45 Colt slugs on a cloudy day.
I might be interested in 200-500 rounds depending on price. But more importantly if we are close enough that I could come get them. I see you are in Alberta so am I.
