Powder that coat well in one coat

[waco]

Maybe we can have a group take a road trip and help fiver shoot up all that old, musty ammo.

Well if we did that, I'd have one of the shorter drives...

 

[fiver]

got some guys coming through from west Virginia for some chuck shooting the second weekend in may.
other than that come on out.
I will get the 2 wheel cart out, stack some 5 gallon buckets on it and we can go over to the range.
pretty sure I can fill them back up again without bothering to turn a pot on.

 

[Brad]

Here is the first ammo I loaded using the dark grey powder Max sent me.
I like the look of the bullets.
357 mag, WSPM, 12.0 2400, MP 359640 HP at 162 gr

 

[Ian]

Nothin' wrong with any of that, good job.

 

[mattw]

Smokes powders, Traffic Blue and a mix of white and dark red. No leading at 1778 FPS!

 

[Brad]

I am pleased. The one coat of the dark grey from Max survived the test. Both my GP100 and my wife’s 686 showed no leading with the 357 loads. Roughly 50 rounds thru each gun.
I figure that if the PC survives a healthy mag load then It will certainly be fine with moderate 38 loads.

 

[Brad]

Here is a short slow motion video shot with my phone. This is a MP 359640 at 162 gr, powder coated, and 12 gr of 2400 in a new Starline 357 mag case.

 

[Pistolero]

Clarification, please.

By "BBs", Ian, do you mean actual steel air rifle .177 BBs or those plastic 3/16 or so airsoft pellets?

Bill

 

[Ian]

5mm airsoft BBs.

 

[Pistolero]

Ok, that's what I thought. I only use "BB" for steel .177 shot, but have seen it used for the airsoft shot, too.

 

[fiver]

BB's are good in the tumblers for other stuff though.

 

[Pistolero]

Are you cleaning brass with steel .177 BBs, fiver? I know about the SS pins for that purpose, haven't
heard of using BBs for it, though.

Bill

 

[Brad]

Steel BBS are good for moly coating bullets.

 

[fiver]

it's good for taking it off too.
they will also point up lead tip jacketed bullets, and peen graphite into buck shot. in a normal tumbler.

the copper BB's rolled in [the pin type tumbler] with jacketed bullets will also put a finish on them that removes and fills in most of the scale pits from annealing the Jacket.

BB's rolled with cases will gently clean them but it takes a longer time, they don't peen or scratch the cases though and they don't put that big bling look on them either.

 

[Brad]

Got a good load for my 1911. Finally.
The MP 200 swc PC’d, sized .452 with my Lee push thru. Load was 4.2 gr of Promo. Avg velocity was 893. QL was telling me I was loading too hot so I listened. This is still 30 FPS faster than predicted so I won’t be increasing at all.
No leading at all, accuracy was as good as I can shoot.

Cleaning the gun was so easy with no lube grunge all over.

 

[freebullet]

Good deal, Brad. Lube grunge...sounds like music the sombrero bros might listen to

 

[fiver]

I'm kind of amazed how much music I have from the Grunge era.
almost none of it is what you'd consider the Seattle sound type stuff though, most of it is from New York or European Bands.

 

[Reloader762]

A few colors I like.

Smokes Carolina Blue


Smokes Super Durable Clear


Eastwoods Machine Gray


Smokes Yellow/Green

 

[Ian]

The Band and JJ Cale are my kind of grunge. Lube development is more of a Black Sabbath or Led Zepplin thing....or sometimes European trance.

 

[fiver]

yep 'focus music'.