Author Topic: Speak From Experience (Read 437 times)

riverjackal · « **on:** February 05, 2005, 03:06:07 PM »

What about moly bullets, good or bad ? Speak from experience, I need to know about them as I inherited a thousand of them but I have never heard of them being used. Anybody know ?

Thank You :-D

Selmer · « **Reply #1 on:** February 07, 2005, 07:22:08 AM »

I used to coat all my bullets with moly for a few years, it didn't improve much of anything from what I could tell, but I will qualify that statement by saying they were not run over a chrony because I didn't have one at the time. I could use the same loads, coated and uncoated, same bullets, and shoot 1" 10 shot groups with any of my rifle, and they went in the same group/point of impact regardless. They only real trouble was when I decided it was a pain in the rear and wanted to clean ALL of the moly out of my guns, serious pain! Any benefit in barrel life was offset by the number of times my cleaning rod went down the bore with Butch's Bore shine on it! Go ahead and shoot them if you want, I haven't tried Wipe-out or any of it's cleaning imitators on moly, maybe they work as well on moly as they do on copper fouling! That's my experience, hope it helps and I hope a couple more folks with more technology, aka, chrony or pressure gauge gives you their input.
Selmer

Weatherby223 · « **Reply #2 on:** February 07, 2005, 03:00:13 PM »

I have to totally agree with Selmer. The benefits (if Any) are totally out weighed by the cleaning time it takes after you have shot them. This was only after shooting around 20 in my .223. :eek: Stick with un-coated bullets

while99 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 07, 2005, 08:08:37 PM »

I've shot some moly-coated bullets in both the 6mm Remington and the 7mm STW. I didn't see any difference in accuracy between moly-coated and plain jacketed bullets. Moly was supposed to prolong barrel life for people who shoot long strings, like 1,000 yard competitors. There must be something to this as Sierra offers some of their Match Kings factory-coated with moly.

bigdaddytacp · « **Reply #4 on:** February 09, 2005, 01:47:29 PM »

Quote from: riverjackal

What about moly bullets, good or bad ? Speak from experience, I need to know about them as I inherited a thousand of them but I have never heard of them being used. Anybody know ?

Thank You :-D

....I have been shooting/loading molly coated bullets in 4 centerfire 22's for about 4 yrs and have had good results with the accuracy and the guns seem to shoot longer/accurately between cleanings than with normal bullets.....I only use impact plated factory coated bullets...Hornady V Max, and Berger match coated.......before shooting them you HAVE to give the barrel a super cleaning....then clean again!!!! or the molly will coat the bore and trap the old copper under the molly and protect it from solvents...........they do help in MOST barrels for longer strings of accurate shooting than many uncoated bullets.....it seems....loading them requires a tighter neck tension on the bullet than normal copper jackets to get good accuracy and burn from you loads and you can tweak them with a slight increase in powder to match the non coated loadings......polish the expander ball or smaller bushing in bushing dies helps on the neck tension....hth..good luck and good shooting!!