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Also, I did a very small batch of the Lee 9mm mold that is the tumble lube groove version. This is a terrible bullet design for 9mm as the bullet is almost always too fast for the tiny little lube grooves to cut into the rifling and not shear. With regular lube methods this bullet is a PITA to not get leading in the bore. So I wanted to try some KK epoxy coating and some powder coated (did the cheap HF powder) to see if it would make the bullets from this mold work and worth continuing to use or if I just need to admit this mold is junk and buy the regular lube groove version that Lee also makes in a six cavity mold. The small batch of HF powder coated that will be tested next:
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That's after two thin coats and they were baked in the pan shown above and not on the aluminum foil pictured. I just poured them into that pan for the picture as they were still hot and needed to cool and I wanted to dump another batch of boolits into the other pan for baking.
Ha, and I thought I was done testing and would just be using KK epoxy....
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Edited to add: I also did two more for the .30-30 to test and I'm biting my lip and will gas check them. The goal was to not have to check them but I'm getting such dismal results with rifle from powder puff Trail Boss loads to real cast loads. A regular tumble in 45/45/10 works like a charm for these boolits but I did have the thoughts that at least if I coat them in epoxy or powder coating and check them then I still avoid build up in the seating dies and have the potential of them feeding through a bullet feeder. The build up isn't that huge of a deal as it's easy to clean the die but would be nice to avoid but the bullet feeder would be huge to me as I really want to set up a .223 ammo factory soon....
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