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Old 03-29-2011, 10:37 AM
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Back in the 70's I was shooting the carol cast bullets by the boxes. I had the usual leading in the barrel at the time.

Then i found out about the bearclaw cast bullets that are lubed with moly. I was experiencing less leading to almost none at all.

Now its 2011 and i'm looking for a moly coating that i can easily apply to my cast bullets. is anyone doing this application today? Bill
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Old 03-29-2011, 08:41 PM
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don't know of anyone coating their bullets with moly, but you can buy them already coated from a company in texas called precision bullets.. I haven't used them. but have heard they work real well with little or no leading. I use alox it seems to work well for me....
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Old 03-30-2011, 10:06 AM
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I seen the improvement inperson when i switched from the regular lubed cast bullets to the moly coated cast bullets and i had very little leading to none with the moly. Before i was running the jacketed bullets down the pipe between shooting the cast bullets to get most of the leading out. Now i just fire 6rds after i'm though shootin to keep the feel of the magnum power and to make sure the barrel is lead free. Bill

BTW; I'm thinking maybe we can up the load a little too if we have less leading with the moly coated bullets. I hate throwing good jacketed magnum charged bullets down range at the paper. I could also cut down on the throat wear too.

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Lyman makes a spray on moly lube I get from Midway. works great
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Old 03-30-2011, 10:16 AM
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pete,

Does the Lyman spray on lube smoke much? Most of my shooting is at an indoor range, and alox smokes quite a bit. I've been using the Lyman orange lube and it smokes very little. Thanks, Dean
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Old 03-30-2011, 11:39 AM
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