Powder coats and front stuffers anyone try it?

Being a patch and ball shooter, the only benefit I could find would be fitting an undersized ball into a oddball old gun. This is theoretical only, as I have never had to go that far.
I have however brought a few antique rifles back to life by powder coating bullets to fit a generous bore, and using smokeless loads.

When I first started shooting with real black powder and pyrodex, I made the mistake of cutting some patches from what must have been a cotton/nylon blend. The plastic fouling was so severe, that I got a ball stuck half way down the barrel and broke my ram rod trying to move it further.

I have given any petroleum based products (including plastics and powder coat) a very wide berth since then.

My one exception is using a light coating of a good quality gun oil after cleaning.
 
John Y Cannuck said:
I realize that if you use BP you'd still need a lube, but with a host of more modern propellants out there, I thought I'd ask if anyone was going with bare bones powder coat?
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I’ve been shooing cast pc Bullets in my trapdoor with smokeless and black powder. No lube with smokeless and barrel looks like new. With black powder I lube the same bullets with beeswax and olive oil. Don’t think I would want to not use lube with black powder.
The best thing is there is 100% NO leading of the barrel and the fouling is soft and cleans up very easy.
 
I guess I shouldn’t try reading and posting without glasses on. Missed the part about muzzle loaders. But it does work well with breach loaders.
 
The only problem I can foresee with ML PC'd slugs is that they will be a bit tougher to load, that PC covering is fairly hard after cooking...I'm assuming your talking conical slugs here and not RB, I would think that RB would still need a patch for rifling engagement and patching would make the PC redundant.
 
For my Hawken .54, I received a 300gr REAL mould in the mail today. Finally something I can cast for faster than I can shoot them. I’ll powder coat Some and try them but usually I just smear that bullet with bore butter and send it. A couple hundred came with the rifle. If powder coating makes it cleaner to shoot, I’ll be happy.
 
For muzzle loaders, bullet hardness only matters when the lead must engrave at loading. So the softer the better. If pc makes it harder, forget it. If not tell us about it.
 
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