Last week I ordered a pound of powder then went around town finding all the stuff needed to powdercoat bullets. Got tired of the mess from lubing and seeing all of your nice looking boolits, wanted to have some of my own.

I've been paying attention to what all of you have been saying about what's needed, how to do it, etc.

My powder arrived today and got right into it. They turned out pretty good.

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I bought Artic Cat Green from All Powder Paints, a quart sized white #5 round bowl with clear lid that snaps on real tight from the $ store, it's about twice the size of a CoolWhip bowl, couldn't find the black BB's but decided to try a small batch without them.
I put a teaspoon of powder in the bowl along with 42 of my freshly cast Lee 312-155gr 2R boolits for 7.62x39 and swirled 'em around a little then shook the crap out of them up and down till my arms hurt. Looked at them through the lid and they were covered really heavy. Scooped them out with a spoon into a CoolWhip bowl, put the lid on and shook them some more.

They had a nice even coat on them now so I placed them in neat little rows on the NS foil and put them in the toaster oven for 10 minutes @ 400 degrees, pre-heated. When the timer went off I took them out to cool. After they were cool I smashed one with a hammer and the coating stayed put, stuck on like glue, GTG !

There's a few that have small marks on them from the needle-nosed pliers but they'll be OK. Not too bad for a 1st try. I can't wait to see what they look like loaded.

I'm looking to forward to trying this once I get me reloading crap set up. I want to make all mine KTM orange!

Awesome looking bullets. I see you gave it the hammer test too. Very nice !!!!

Motor

Mark me down for titty pink.

Thanks guys. And thanks to all of those who perfected this before I came along.

1 question...the directions say ''Cure time= 400F/10 min @ PMT''. What does PMT mean ?

Nice job!  It's time like this that I wish we had a Like button.

Nice.

Nice!

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Nice! I need one of those molds for 7.62x54r.

Nice job!

I started using some fine-tip tweezers to pick up the boolits in the lube groove. Fewer marks that way.

Part Metal Temperature.  Means 10 minutes from the time the bullets heat soak enough to reach 400 degrees. 

OK, so I can cook them longer than the 10 min I did.

I only cooked them for 10 minutes and they turned out good, but I wouldn't have time to get another batch ready that fast. Knowing I can cook them longer will come in handy.

Thanks

ETA: I'm going to fire up the toaster oven and cook up the rest of these 200 or so boolits, I think I'll put GC's on some of them to test out.

That's 1 of the reasons I bought it. And to use in 7.62x39 and 30-06.

I sized them in the Lee Push-Through sizer last night and they came out at .312''. Perfect !

Great job!

One suggestion I have is to pick up an oven thermometer, they're around $5 at Wal-mart. Toaster ovens temperature knobs are rarely accurate. For example, on mine the oven hits 400* about 1/8" past the 350* mark, I used a silver sharpie to mark where the dial needs to be.

Are you going to gascheck those bullets?

EDIT: Question removed (I hadn't seen the text below the picture).

Way ahead of ya, brother. I got that el-cheapo thermometer at Walmart when I got the $20 toaster oven. Mine hits 400F just before the 450F mark. And I marked it with a silver marker too.

I'm going to shoot some with and without GC's. I plan on using these for 7.62x39, 7.62x54R and 30-06. I'll try some both ways in each caliber and find out what works best, then apply that knowledge to powdercoated 50 BMG bullets.

Those green bullets will be perfect for zombies.

That's a good one !

Darn, now ya tell me...I just got done putting GC's on 100 of them AFTER they were coated.

Yes, they were a major PITA !! Here's some of them along with a little problem I ran into.

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The 2 nose-down on the board have dents in the bottom of the GC's from the pointy bullet below as it goes into the Lee sizer die. Normally I wouldn't worry about it but the dents aren't in the exact center so it'll throw the accuracy off.

I did 10 like that before I noticed it. I solved it by a PITA method of putting the GC on and pushing it into the die, then using a 2'' blunted tip framing nail with a head a little smaller than the bullet diameter into the die and raising the ram so the blunt tip was on the pusher and pushed the bullet up and out of the die. Did the next 90 like that .

I'll put GC's on first from now on then PC as you do. My dia is .312, even though mine says it's a .311 sizer but that works for me.

Are you saying yours says .312 but sizes at .311 ?

Even after all the trouble it was getting GC's on they look pretty good. That was the second and third batch. For the 4th batch I used airsoft BB's my nephew gave me. They are 12g. light green. They worked OK. I didn't notice any difference in the coating before or after.

Thanks for the info Dryflash, I'll use it next time for sure.

I didn't know about that load but I do know about ''The Load'' with Red Dot which I can't find any of locally. I haven't seen any 2400 but will keep looking for either.

What has worked for me in regards to picking up the powder coated bullets is to get a latex glove and rub some powder coat on it. Get it good and dusty.

Pick up the powder coated bullets with the powder coated glove and the PC on the bullets will not come off.

Those boolits look pretty damn nice...

Very nice first attempt, actually awesome!!!!

I have all the things to do this except the time.

Thank you for sharing,

Danny

Another trick for the gas checks is to put a little powder coat in the gas check as you snap it into the cast bullet. That way when you powder coat the bullet+GC the PC between the bullet and GC will stick better.