Bullet coating?

[rockhound78]

Been reading about how Brad wet tumbles his bullets with Moly and with others, Hbn goes on dry. I was wondering if anyone else has tried putting on Hbn wet like Brad does Moly?

I ran some bullets through the tumbler with Hbn wet and then a final short tumble in a caranuba car wash/wax for a thin wax coating. Used an old grape jelly jar (plastic) wrapped in a towel(quieter), for a few hours, rinsed the bullets, then to the wash/wax then final rinse and dry
Kind of like when I tumble brass with the dawn/lemishine/wash-wax combo, which seems to leave a light wax coating on the brass.

Bullets were a bit harder to handle as they seemed a bit more slippery and it seemed that the force needed to seat a bullet was less than an untreated bullet.
Might try and go to the range today and see how things work, but depends on how bad the wind might be blowing

 

[lgwatson]

Been reading about how Brad wet tumbles his bullets with Moly and with others, Hbn goes on dry. I was wondering if anyone else has tried putting on Hbn wet like Brad does Moly?

I ran some bullets through the tumbler with Hbn wet and then a final short tumble in a caranuba car wash/wax for a thin wax coating. Used an old grape jelly jar (plastic) wrapped in a towel(quieter), for a few hours, rinsed the bullets, then to the wash/wax then final rinse and dry
Kind of like when I tumble brass with the dawn/lemishine/wash-wax combo, which seems to leave a light wax coating on the brass.

Bullets were a bit harder to handle as they seemed a bit more slippery and it seemed that the force needed to seat a bullet was less than an untreated bullet.
Might try and go to the range today and see how things work, but depends on how bad the wind might be blowing

I use Hbn coated bullets. Please let us know your results.

 

[Fire Dog]

Been reading about how Brad wet tumbles his bullets with Moly and with others, Hbn goes on dry. I was wondering if anyone else has tried putting on Hbn wet like Brad does Moly?

I ran some bullets through the tumbler with Hbn wet and then a final short tumble in a caranuba car wash/wax for a thin wax coating. Used an old grape jelly jar (plastic) wrapped in a towel(quieter), for a few hours, rinsed the bullets, then to the wash/wax then final rinse and dry
Kind of like when I tumble brass with the dawn/lemishine/wash-wax combo, which seems to leave a light wax coating on the brass.

Bullets were a bit harder to handle as they seemed a bit more slippery and it seemed that the force needed to seat a bullet was less than an untreated bullet.
Might try and go to the range today and see how things work, but depends on how bad the wind might be blowing

As a small aside,
DO NOT use any sort of wax coating on brass that you plan on annealing!
The burn off is absolutely choking and if using an AMP machine it will cause a lot of pollution to the induction plates that is very hard to remove.
I use 10ml of Boretec Sonic Cleaner in my wet tumbler and that seems to provide a bit of tarnish protection and can be used as an adjunct to brass that has been cleaned in a vibrating tumbler as well.
Just deprime the brass first after tumbling in the vibrating tumbler {primers in for the tumble to keep media out of flash holes} then treat the cases to hot water wash, dash of dish soap, dash of Lemishine and the Sonic Cleaner for about an hour.
Toss a bit in a towel to remove excessive water, spread on a tray in the oven with the fan force going at about 100* for 1/2hr - 3/4hr and ready to go… primer pocket rubbish will be much less as well.