An inexpensive oven comes in handy.The shiny finish shows that the powder has melted and cured on these 7mm bullets.Two coats of Harbor Freight red put a thick coat of paint on bullets cast from an LBT-358-200 FN mould. Black Powder-lubed bullets are for BP use, the others aren't. These bullets all sized easily and it should have been other way. I finally did away with the tube and the Lee bullet catcher and just left the die body open and when It got pretty well filled up, I would unscrew it and pour the bullets out. But, I'm playing with 300 BlackOuts, .308 Wins and 30-06 with coated cast bullets. I use it both for base-first sizing, and to seat gas checks.

Standing up a bunch of slender rifle bullets requires nimble fingers.Simply tumbling bullets and powder together in a container turned out the cheapest and easiest way to coat bullets evenly. But the force required is quite a bit more than the Lee sizers, due to different forcing cone, maybe. Powder-coated bullets eliminated the smoke for sure, and perhaps some airborne lead.Powder coating does not strengthen a bullet’s lead alloy. Powder-coating material is essentially plastic that has been ground into a fine powder, with resins, color and other ingredients added to provide the desired coating film.

I rolled them between two flat pieces of steel and got them back to where they should be. I have had a Lyman 450 for years and bought the NOE setup about a year ago. It works great.Thanks for the response, information and photo.

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about a year ago and other than setting it up and seeing how it operated, I had never used it.

I had bought NOE sizing equipment in.17 cal. A flat pan placed over the heating element spread the heat more evenly.After some experimenting, an oven temperature of 350 degrees and a baking time of 15 minutes was settled on. Bayou Bullets is a leader in premium coated cast bullets to top competition shooters and discriminating reloaders. Below is a (non-perfect) photo illustrating how I seat checks, using the NOE equipment. It took much more effort to size them, the pb bullets sized well with quite a bit more effort required that the ww bullets. I just lay them down on the lube pad and give them a couple of rolls like I do cartridge cases.

I had powder coated a few and found that the recesses for the gas check was too small after powder coating. I didn't check the BHN on these problem bullets. Start by running five compound coated bullets through the die, measure a bullet, and go from there checking often. Happy shooting!Thanks for you comment. Others tumble bullets while wearing wool socks and dragging their feet across carpet.Bullets must be clean for the powder to stick. It was finally determined that the melted bullets had been directly over the heating element. I cast my own, recently been powder coating & Hi-tech. No fowling of any type so far. That was fairly well the bore’s condition after shooting sized and lubed bullets.Powder coating bullets does require more time than the traditional method of running bullets through a sizer/lubricator press. I gently rolled the bullets into a strainer positioned over a pail and lightly jiggled the strainer to drain excess powder. I size a lot of my powder coated bullets in the lee dies, mostly because it is so much faster to screw a lee die in a press than to change the dies in the Lyman 450. Nothing is freer of contaminates than freshly cast bullets, or bullets stored in a sealed container.Some advice I read suggested to shaking a container with powder and bullets like a paint-shaking machine. I hope to shoot the .17 and my 32-20 with those bullets this week and maybe some 30-30's.I'll still take my Lyman 450 over the NOE. The top punch holder for the ram is brilliant.

Polyester powders are the most common. The 2% tin bullets were the ones I wrote about in my powder coating discussion, that I had heck getting them to accept powder.I first sized the wheel weight bullets both gc and pb with not much problem. I found it was quick, and I liked the results. Because they look so cool, I’ll even keep on hand some .30-30 and .45 Auto ammunition loaded with powder-coated bullets.These bullets were cast from an NOE 453-210-RF mould.

The bullets had a velocity of 1,163 fps fired from the 6-inch barrel of a Smith & Wesson Model 686 .357 Magnum revolver.

Recoil was sharp. Here are the items you will need Powder coating powder For the powder I have tried expensive powders and cheap powder. Figuring out what size bullet you should use is a question we hear a lot! After 10 shots, the borescope showed slight streaks of lead in a few spots in the bore. All in all, I like the NOE sizing equipment except the aluminum pointed nose punch. POWDER COATED BULLETS WITH MY NEW NOE SIZING EQUIPMENT

Without any powder coating they were very tight and hard to get a gc seated. The gun blows negatively charged powder onto positively charged bullets. The paint does not crack or peel off when sizing bullets. Click on Contact Us; Tracking number - Automatically receive tracking details by visiting https://my.usps.com. Some thin spots appeared here and there on some bullets coated once.

From there the bullets were slowly rolled into a pan lined with nonstick aluminum foil. A slight space between bullets prevents them from sticking together and eliminates rough spots from forming where they touched.Powder coating is a fairly clean process. However the other bunch of bullets were casting experiments from when I first got the NOE mold. They wiped out with a few brush strokes followed by two patches.