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Old July 30, 2017, 02:44 AM   #1
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Cast an PC 45 HP

I cast up a bunch of 45 ACP HP's form a new NOE mold las week so this morning I spent a couple hours PC,ing them. The humidity was pretty high so I coated them in the house using Shake and Bake and toasted them out on the back deck.

I ended up doing a couple hundred of the HP's a couple hundred of the 200 gr. SWC's and a few hundred 9mm bullets I had cast up. I'll have to run them through the Lee push through sizer tomorrow.


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Old July 30, 2017, 07:35 AM   #2
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Nice looking bullets. Question: Will a hollow point expand at .45 ACP velocities?
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Old July 30, 2017, 08:36 AM   #3
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Cast lead will if you use the proper alloy,plus I will be shooting these out of my Hi Point 45 ACP carbine which gets on average about 100 fps. more MV than the same load out of a handgun. My 200+ gr. loads are currently running at around 1010 fps.

http://www.lasc.us/FryxellCastHP45ACP.htm
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Old July 30, 2017, 09:19 AM   #4
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Nice!!!! You're going to be all set for some shooting fun!
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Old July 30, 2017, 10:34 AM   #5
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Looks like your coating turned out real smooth. Ypu just shaking?
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Old July 30, 2017, 10:49 AM   #6
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Yes just shake an bake. I give my bullets a acetone wash,then dry an just add enough powder to give them a good coat withour the powder clumping up on the bullets,you can always add more but it's hard to take it away. Cool dry air like today helps or I just coat them in the house and bake them out on the back porch.
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Old November 30, 2017, 03:34 PM   #7
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Wow those look nice. Can you give details in how you did the powfer coating and where you got the powder coat.

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Old November 30, 2017, 08:40 PM   #8
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The colors I currently use, Traffic Orange, Yellow Green, Carolina Blue I got from Smoke over on the CastBoolit Forum. You can get 1 lb. of any color he has or $18 shipped or split it into 3 one-third lb. bags of three different colors for the same price. I also plan to buy a couple colors from Eastwood that I like as well.

In general, I do all my powder coating outside in my shop as long as the air is dry and humidity is 45% or lower it helps create lots of static electricity. If not I coat in the house place on my trays an bake on the back porch. I generally keep three trays going all the time one baking, one cooling and one I'm setting up the next batch to be baked on.

I use white plastic containers like old cool whip bowls or pint size containers with screw on or snap on lids. I usually fill it about 1/3rd. full with plastic multi-colored necklace beads I get at the local craft store for a few bucks a bag which can be washed off and reused again over and over.


Before adding powder I give the beads a 30 sec. shake in the container to help build up the static charge. I add about 1/2 TSP of powder and about 50 to 75 bullets depending on weight an caliber. and give it a good shake for about 30 sec. and see how they are coated. If they need a bit more coating you can give them another 30 sec. or add just a pinch more powder to much powder is as bad as not enough. After a little practice, you get the hang of it. Then I just pluck them out one at a time with some large tweezers and place them base down on nonstick aluminum foil and pop them in a preheated convection toaster oven for 20 min. at 400 degrees.

45 ACP cup points coated with Smokes Yellow Green ready to place on the tray.


Finished bullets ready to load.


Some 38 cal. 155 gr. NOE bullets for my Lyman 358156 HP clone mold. I coated them with Smoke Yellow Green and Carolina Blue. I'm going to use the Y/G for 357 and the Carolina Blue for 38+P.
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Old November 30, 2017, 08:41 PM   #9
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How do you like that NOE mould ?
The hollows are impressive.
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Old November 30, 2017, 08:47 PM   #10
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I've had it for several years now, I got it in a group buy over on Cast Boolits. The mold I have will do HP's or FP's but I have plenty of FN molds so I just leave the HP pins in all the time.

Here is the bullet with no powder coat. Bullet on the right is cast from 50/50, gas check left off, tumble lube with Alox/JPW lube and shot in wet pack media at 38+P velocity. Bullet on the Left is set up for 357 loads.
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Old December 1, 2017, 11:59 AM   #11
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Well your results speak for themselves so Im gonna have to pay the ultimate form of flattery and copy your process.
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Old December 2, 2017, 12:21 AM   #12
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That's very nice work, sir. Someday I might be able to afford a hollow point mold for 9mm.
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Old December 5, 2017, 01:15 PM   #13
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I just ordered a 9mm HP mold from hollow point mold. Its a lee converstion mold duel cavity cast 112 to 115 grain bullets cost was 100.00
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