BoydAllen
Gold $$ Contributor
Some years ago, I spoke with a shooter as he was doing a full brush (bronze) and patch cleaning of his barrel, which he said that did between every match (short range group, match = five record plus sighters). He told me that he had been doing moly coating since the information about Merrill Martin's process and results had been published (long before) in Precision Shooting. He did the whole Magilla, including carnuba wax, just like Martin did. Looking at his results, I would have to say that his performance seemed to be fine, competitive, a reflection of his skill tuning and reading flags. Later that day he shot a very small group at 200 with the worst mirage you can imagine. I think that his gain was in barrel life. He told me that that barrel had 2,500 rounds on it at the start of that weekends match. Just a couple of months ago, he had returned to the Visalia range for another match weekend and I asked him if he was still using moly, he said that he was and that the barrel he was shooting had about 2,400 rounds on it. Just reporting folks. I have never geared up with a tumbler, two drums, steel shot, ground walnut hulls, a sieve, carnuba, and moly powder to do what he is. I will say that a lot of those who put moly and other things on their bullets seem to have blown off putting carnuba wax on their bullets. I do not think that Merrill would have bothered with that if he had not found some advantage to doing it. Most people do not remember that he was primarily interested in using the process on plain base cast bullets for benchrest competition of that type when he developed the process.