Powder coating cast bullets?

by Fowler, Sunday, May 17, 2015, 11:15 (3418 days ago) @ Brian A

I know Dick Thompson and Jeff Hoover have been trying this pretty extensively over the last year or so and have had similar experiences. According to them they have found no real draw backs to it beyond getting over the nonlead looking bullets. Hoover has even run them in his rifles fairly fast, 2200fps ish will no ill effects beyond smaller groups and faster velocities. Hoover has offered to coat a batch of bullets for me and then to return them for testing but I don't have enough unsized bullets that I want to test to try it yet so I need to get the pot heated up I guess.

So far I know of no real draw back to doing this but it will be interesting to see if any come to the surface over the next couple of years. The closest thing I have been told to a negative issue is that in the baking process the bullets all soften to about 10-12 hardness no matter how hard they were when you start. But since hey are powder coated they don't lead he barrels at all so is this really an issue?