Yesterday and today I spent time blasting away at steel plate targets with my 686. Mostly my coated lead bullets. The steel plate was dropping a lot of them straight downward. A large number of them looked like penny's. they were 125 grain RNFP. They were mostly perfectly round and about the thickness of a penny. None of them fragmented. That tells me that the annealing done during powder coating did make the bullets more malleable. Also the powder coating did not come off. After 200 rounds the bore looks like a mirror. Forcing cone had powder but no lead buildup. I was shooting 5 grains of Trail Boss and Titegroup.

Did shoot my Henry 357 some. Shooting 158 grain Hornady JHP. Got 2" groups at 175 yards with 16.7 grains of H110. Getting 4" groups with coated lead, 158 gr. RNFP WITH 16 grains of H110.

Mike

Glad you had a couple of nice days on the range. Plus it sounds like your coated bullets were very successful.