Moly coated bullets

[sirmissalot]

I can't seem to find much on the negative side of moly coated bullets, other than it can attract moisture in your barrel so its suggested you clean after shooting.

Other than that everything seems to be good. There must be a reason for not a lot of bullet manufacurers producing them, even some that used to carry them and have now quit. I know you can coat bullets yourself, but the fact most manufacturers have quit producing them makes me wonder.

Whats your opinion on coated vs non-coated?

[300rum]

Are you asking about Rifle Bullets? 

If you are talking about pistol bullets, I shoot thousands of Moly Bullets.  The Bullets that I use are Bear Creek.  I typically shoot around 200-250 rounds three times a week depending on the season.  My hands are black after a session.  For pistol bullets they are about as cheap as it gets and there is no lube to gum up dies or the pistol.  I clean (field strip only) my main pistol (1911) once a month so every 2,000-3,000 rounds and detail clean once a year.  As far as the barrel goes, I don't clean the barrel.  I only take a Wilson Chamber Brush and use it with some Breakfree CLP.  After using the Chamber Brush I push a clean patch down the barrel and that is as close to cleaning the barrel that I get.  I make sure to wash real well after session of shooting or reloading.  The jury is kind of out as far as Molybdenum and whether it is unhealthy or not.  My idea is that it is better then lead.  I have looked into coating bullets myself but I can't beat the price by messing with it.   

[sirmissalot]

Specifically I am asking about rifle bullets, but I could see a benefit for pistol bullets as well.

[Biggerhammer]

Specifically I am asking about rifle bullets, but I could see a benefit for pistol bullets as well.

Just another factor to deal with, I don't fix it. If it isn't broke. I personally talked with a world record holding bench rest shooter that told me moly ruined one of his best shooting Lilja barrels. I didn't need to hear anymore than that. He also said with a smirk, that powder charge was the least of the worries in the accuracy game. I also had Bruce Baer tell me the same thing concerning powder when they were building me a .308 Baer. When guys like that talk, I listen.

[elkslayer069]

my swift loves it, i tumble my own and it been the best thing for accuracy ive done with it. i dont clean mine either ill run a clean patch down the barrel every once and a while. me and couple guys get together couple times a week (100 rounds an outting) and shoot dimes and aspirin at 100 yards. they were impressed with how constant it shot they started molying their own bullets and it had the same effect on their rifles as well. 

[sirmissalot]

Great, one comment saying they are the best thing they have done to improve accuracy and another saying they will ruin a barrel 

Thanks for your input guys

[Biggerhammer]

Great, one comment saying they are the best thing they have done to improve accuracy and another saying they will ruin a barrel 

Thanks for your input guys

I personally have never shot moly and won't, so I can't give a opinion based on real work expirience. I have shot the Nosler / Winchester Combined Technolagy Bullets. Which performed no different than a Ballistic Tip. They didn't have a true Moly coating. It was a propitiatory coating, they were shot through rifles I never planned on keeping. I know that once you Intraduced moly to a barrel, it's there forever. I purchased a .308 Rem700 PSS years ago . I have never shot moly out of it but the prior owner had, to this day I still get get traces of moly when cleaning it, never a clean patch at the end. Always a little stain from some moly residue.

Just go check out some of the F-Class and 1000 yard competition forums and look at the top shooting for years and years, guys that know accuracy and outer ballistics. You hardly ever see moly bullets used, if I want to tinker. I'll tinker in another department and leave the moly be.