Removing moly from bullets?

I would think it will take more than a tumbler? and even if it does come off your media will be toast. Try MEK or some other solvent, try one bullet at a time and see what works best. If you need some MEK let me know, I have some available!!!
 
Good stuff, thanks guys.

Might buy some bullets that are moly coated (after market) from a fellow and I'm not shooting moly. Not sure why the fellow moly'd a bunch of Triple Shoks in the first place but that's not my concern - just how to fix em if I buy em ;) .
 
if it were me (which it wouldn't be - why would you want to remove moly in the first place?!? But, IF it were me, hypothetically) I'd just dump 'em in the tumbler for a few hours. No messy solvents, minimal effort - piece 'o cake
 
Grizz Axxemann said:
I thought moly was GOOD... why take it off?
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Because lots of people do not believe moly is good. Google it and you will find lots of reading. One of the bench rest supply dealers in the US has a disclamer saying that while they sell it because some customers want it, they themselves do not use it in their own rifles.

I won't in mine.
 
Mmmmm, but benchrest shooters scrub their barrels shiny after each string, a luxury I don't have out shootin' varmints.


David Tubb uses moly/danzac, and his results are acceptable
 
I tried moly myself and won't use it.Accuracy was no better and it takes several shots out of a clean barrel for the groups to settle down.The same rifles shoot great with a clean barrel with the same bullets that aren't moly coated.For a target shooter or varmint shooter it may work fine,but it just isn't practical for a big game rifle.I should also mention that my rifles still exhibited copper fouling using moly.The barrels were perfectly clean before I tried moly,but as I removed the moly,copper was evident,only it couldn't be seen until the moly was removed.After discovering this,I removed the moly from the rest of the bullets.
 
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One advantage of using moly is not having to clean the barrel. If you are using a factory rifle it may show copper fouling if you use moly or not. I have a new barrel on my target rifle and even with moly I am getting copper fouling on one land only. It is driving me crazy. The last barrel went over 900 rounds before I cleaned it and there wasn't any copper fouling at all.
 
Well, the only rifle of mine that I EVER had any significant copper fouling with was my SKS, oddly. Once a year or so, I'll clean the barrels of my guns right down to the steel, removing ALL fouling and moly. I've not ever found copper fouling with my moly and/or tungsten disulfide (danzac) coated bullets.

Even with moly, I do clean regularly, after each shoot. In a given shoot, I may put up to 200 rounds through (bore snake every 30 or so). One thing moly does is make cleaning a snap. 10 minutes, couple of patches, and good to go. The key is to not clean too much - you still want some moly remaining in the barrel. Just go for the worst of the powder/carbon and be done with it.
 
I have a new barrel on my target rifle and even with moly I am getting copper fouling on one land only. It is driving me crazy.
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My rifles have premium hand lapped barrels and they copper very little.However moly did not eliminate this.
 
This may be taking us off course abit but dry moly works very well on cast bullets shot in indoor ranges as it reduces smoke a great deal.....most cast bullets use a lube that causes alot of smoke indoors and you wouldn't realize until you try the same bullet/load with dry moly treatment. I don't know if tumbling bullets would remove all types of moly treatment as this is how moly is applied. Dry moly is burnished into the bullet(as per M.T. Chambers).
 
stubblejumper said:
I tried moly myself and won't use it.Accuracy was no better and it takes several shots out of a clean barrel for the groups to settle down.The same rifles shoot great with a clean barrel with the same bullets that aren't moly coated.For a target shooter or varmint shooter it may work fine,but it just isn't practical for a big game rifle.I should also mention that my rifles still exhibited copper fouling using moly.The barrels were perfectly clean before I tried moly,but as I removed the moly,copper was evident,only it couldn't be seen until the moly was removed.After discovering this,I removed the moly from the rest of the bullets.
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X2, Eagleye.
 
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