Hi Tek vs Powder Coat

GRMPS

GRMPS

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It's one way to test whether the PC properly adheres to your bullet with no cracks or chipping..
 
Ian

Ian

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Popper was jerking your chain. He's the one who invented the inductive curing process for powder paint on bullets, so he knows a bit.
 
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Billy G

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Ian said:
Al's remark made me chuckle. Nobody is winning CBA matches with Hi-Tek.
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I don't shoot in CBA matches so I guess it's OK if I keep on HT coating my bullets. I do 8lbs at a time & do 2 coats in about 1 hour & 20 minutes. I never get any lead fouling. I have checked accuracy with P-C vs H-T & found no difference in either handguns or rifles. I'm not trying to convert anyone, but I get more consistent results with H-T, but that's just me.
 
Ian

Ian

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Billy G said:
I don't shoot in CBA matches so I guess it's OK if I keep on HT coating my bullets. I do 8lbs at a time & do 2 coats in about 1 hour & 20 minutes. I never get any lead fouling. I have checked accuracy with P-C vs H-T & found no difference in either handguns or rifles. I'm not trying to convert anyone, but I get more consistent results with H-T, but that's just me.
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Use what works for you, others have good luck with it too. I don't have any useful feedback from personal experience using Hi-Tek, just observations. A lot of "what works" is so subjective anyway. I know what a well-done PC jacket will do and honestly haven't found an accurate velocity limit with it. I've run to the pressure limits in half a dozen chamberings with it and get boringly predictable 1.5" ten shot groups at 100 yards with no special work, just load them like jacketed with a careful neck sizing/expanding step.
 
RBHarter

RBHarter

West Central AR
Might be fun to do something exotic like a 35gr bullet in a 22-250 or 220 Swift maybe a 50 gr in a 25-06' . If we can get in flight jacket failure with HPs then it shouldn't be hard to see if PC will go 4400 fps .
 
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popper

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Conductive, not inductive. I just cook them on my hot plate. The PC links on the surface of the alloy first so bonding is better. IMHO it works better for HiTek also, for the same reason. Plus they don't fall over trying to move them in/out of an oven and H.P. never overheats them.
 
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