powder coat cast bullets

[Flieguy]

who powder coats their cast bullets?

I'm curious about accuracy from, say, a 30-30, as there are conflicting reports on other forums.

some people also say you can push them to velocities similar to a jacketed bullet, is this also true?

any other issues or benefits you've seen with powder coating?

[tikka250]

I'm fairly new to powder coating but so far have had good luck with it. I am loading cast 357 with a fairly stout jacketed load with no leading or terrible loss in accuracy.

[overhere]

I do 150 grain cast with gas check powder coated and 31 grains 3031 . Can get rounds touching at 70yards. Thats a remlin 3030

[David Henry]

Have you had a chance to run that 31 grains of 3031 through a chronograph. I would be interested to hear what your getting and what's the bore like to clean after the powder coating. D.H.

[Flieguy]

interesting, veeeeery interesting, what hardness of lead are y'all running at full charges?

[tikka250]

Originally Posted by Flieguy

interesting, veeeeery interesting, what hardness of lead are y'all running at full charges?

im almost afraid to say as the cast lead purists will shout and cry bad things at my lack of accurate casting practices but i will say it anyways.
due to the nature of the guns i am shooting and their purpose as fun easy to load close range plinkers i dont tend to be super religious on my lead alloy. i came across a lot of pure lead sheets that i have been trying to use up instead of my wheel weights so my method has been to throw a 1/2 lb wheel weight ingot "roughly every half pot" to use up the pure stuff.
i have tested some of my bullets from various batches and the hardness comes out around 7-9 HB and yet still no leading with the powder coat.
keep in mind this doesn't work with all guns. i used this approach with my Chinese 45acp and although it still shoots accurate enough it leads like no tomorrow.