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I have some coated boolits, some cast boolits with the hard parrafin/carnuba type wax,
But haven't really loaded many of the coated ones.
I remember a conversation I had with someone about coated boolits and he was pushing them fairly hard, and said that powder coated could go to 2200 fps or so, I'll have to verify and check that.
But the thing is it was more than I thought,.
Now on just reading the first link I posted, and only getting to the lube section, is as far as I've got.
But that took it past bullet hardness.
So I'm just going off 1 source so far about bullet hardness, obturation, and lubrication in regard to sealing against bore, and lube as it goes down rifling.
That kind of brings up the issue of powder coating as a gilding material, or jacket like a copper plating, or as a lubricity agent.
Lubes work when they melt and flow. They help to seal the bore as well.
Alox and beeswax have been used for decades, as well as other things.
Light target loads <900 fps behave diffrent than loads >1100 fps
so I'm not expecting a lot of differences in 45 and 38, but would see more in 9 mm as it's pushed faster.
Same for magnum pistol calibers.
So I'm in research and learning mode currently.
I haven't scoured the forums at castboolits dot Com, but I know it is a resource that I will use.
I'm trying to get a good overview at this point.
Now as far as way better between cast and lubed boolits and powder coated ones, can you explain a bit on that,? I'd like to hear what you've experienced.
Last edited by mapper; December 24th, 2020 at 04:12 PM.
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