Coating Bullets

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nosee posted this 01 February 2018

NOE .227-80sp,Hornady gas check, 4 coats Hi-Tek, sized .225, 100 ready to load. Nosee

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BigMan54 posted this 01 February 2018

Those are some fine looking bullets. What color is that, please.

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nosee posted this 01 February 2018

Hi-Tek calls it gun metal. nosee

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OU812 posted this 01 February 2018

Coating makes bullets fatter. So I hope they chamber so bullet will not be pushed back into case. Have you checked?

What rifle and twist rate are you using?

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porthos posted this 01 February 2018

i don't "follow" threads about coated bullets very much. so, the question that i have is; do the prove to be as accurate as conventially lubed bullets??

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nosee posted this 02 February 2018

Yes, I have shot lot of these through this Tikka .223 1in8, sized .225. I fact I shoot these at the CBA national in sept. took last place, but I,am going back,can,t do any worse! I have coated some that would not chamber, put the coating on to heavy at one time, need just a little,3 or 4 times.It is time consuming but it stoped the leading in the Tikka, Thank You for asking Nosee

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nosee posted this 02 February 2018

I started using this because of leading in a new Tikka .223 1 in 8, all the lubes i tried,and that was several , still leading after 15--20 rounds. this stopped that,I believe it to be as good or better with an accurate shooter,that i,am not. Thank You. Nosee

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nosee posted this 04 February 2018

Thank you for asking about how accurate coated bullets are to regular lube.I did,t know, so I loaded 25 coated and 25 Lee alox.Wind here was bad today, but I was ready to shoot,sw wind 13 gust to 27, we shoot north. That didn,t matter I was just shooting to compare, coating to lube.I shot 5 coated to foul clean rifle,all 5 shot groups. Then I shot all the alox bullets,to check for lead, because that is what my real trouble was. No real good groups,all about the same 1 to 1.5 in.best was one of alox .930.But realy, to me not enough difference to say for sure,am loading somemore to try when weather is better. I will shoot the same and cono. One thing for sure I had NO leading in barrel this time,my alox groups never spreed out like before. Thank you Nosee

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Ken Campbell Iowa posted this 04 February 2018

great post .... and congrats on shooting under 3 inches in a 25 mph wind !! .... a head or tail wind is the trickiest wind to figure out !! ...

and additionally ... a question i have:: how the he** do you get to the kc nat's range ?? on the google map it looks like you really need a hell-icopter ... if i was at the chief's stadium on I70 what roads do i take ?? or do i just drive to booneville and back for hours ?? ... since i got my eyes tuned up i gotta show up one of these times .

ken