Powder coated boolets, or no?

[Phauxtoe]

what are the advantages and disadvantages?

 

[stokes]

Advantage?It'll keep the boolets balls dry.

 

[togmaster]

Advantage is less lead fouling of your barrel. Safer since you are not handling lead.

I used to buy coated pistol bullets but the price of copper plated has come down so much now I only buy copper plated.

 

[Day444]

I've used .38 bullets in a revolver that were treated with Nylon. Can't say they made a heck of difference.

 

[MilesTeg]

Advantages
-cheaper than fmj
-easier to load than lubed lead
-cleaner shooting
-you can push them faster then lead
-no exposed lead

Disadvantages
- can be difficult to load for compared fmj

 

[togmaster]

Advantages
-cheaper than fmj
-easier to load than lubed lead
-cleaner shooting
-you can push them faster then lead
-no exposed lead

Disadvantages
- can be difficult to load for compared fmj

Miles I agree with everything except pushing them faster than lead. Powder coated, polymer coated and even copper plated should be loaded the same as lead.

 

[MilesTeg]

Miles I agree with everything except pushing them faster than lead. Powder coated, polymer coated and even copper plated should be loaded the same as lead.

Kind of true there's been a big push lately with people loading them to jacketed speeds. With that said you need to start with a lead load numbers and work yourself up. Ill try to look up a thread on cast boolits that people were push rifle rounds to fmj speeds successfully.

 

[MilesTeg]

Here's the most recent thread on the subject, but there's a more in depth one out there.

Accuracy and velocity with coated bullets

 

[Shoots100]

The coated are usually cheaper, don't smoke, different styles/contours and with the many different available colors, you can use a different color to differentiate rounds that have different power factors or OAL.
Many steel shooters compete with pistol chambered carbines and load them hot for 100% function.
Those rounds would be very hot in a pistola, so it's an easy way to keep from blowing your guns up. or not having them function during a match.

 

[Eddie Gunks]

As an RO i hate em. They smell like burnt plastic. Terrible. Feels like im getting instant cancer.

I call them cancer bullets.