Shooting moly coated bullets

[ericbc7]

I have no great insight regarding moly coated bullets aside from some personal experience. I did some load testing recently with wet coated moly bullets namely 75 gr A-max .224 in my .223.

Just a couple points:
Cleaning is messier. I use boretec extreme and it works well. You can expect a good deal of black sludge and will need extra rags over naked bullet shooting. Clean you chamber as even with a bore guide, stuff will leak into the chamber.

It is somewhat harder to see copper fouling. The rod gets coated with the sludge so wipe after each patch change. That is pretty much it, I will still use moly coated bullets but you need to develop loads separately for them.

 

[Heman]

What do you mean by wet coating? I use the water method to coat my bullets but they are shiny when they come out. The method is cleaner than steal shot as there is no dust.

 

[Jason Boersma]

I coat mine with the dry method, no mess at all just one dirty towel that I polish them with hands don't even get dirty. I find it is easier to clean my barrel, no sludge. I use KG carbon remover first then butch's bore shine.

 

[ericbc7]

My wet coated method is similar to the description on the thread by the same name on this forum.

I don't mean to suggest it is particularly dirty, it's just that my ss shooters choice rod gets coated with black when I run the brass brush through several times ( more than with naked bullets).