Post by: sirmissalot on January 12, 2012, 12:42:55 PM
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?
Post by: 300rum on January 12, 2012, 02:09:16 PM
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.
Post by: sirmissalot on January 12, 2012, 02:21:13 PM
Post by: Biggerhammer on January 12, 2012, 10:18:12 PM
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.
Post by: elkslayer069 on January 12, 2012, 10:27:16 PM
Post by: sirmissalot on January 13, 2012, 06:58:03 AM
Thanks for your input guys
Post by: Biggerhammer on January 13, 2012, 08:38:53 AM
Great, one comment saying they are the best thing they have done to improve accuracy and another saying they will ruin a barrel :chuckle:
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.