Anyone else coating their bullets with h-BN?
I just got a new 6creed barrel and decided I wanted to do something about extending the barrel life as much as possible. I will be loading H1000 to help with that some, but I have also decided to start coating the bullets in Hex Boron Nitride. Its easy enough to do, dump some bullets in an old 1lb powder jug, put 1/4tsp of h-BN in said jug, wedge jug into Franford Arsenal SS Media tumbler, tumble for 45mins to an hour, dump everything out on a microfiber cloth, wipe off the excess and then load.
These things get slippery once coated. I had a hard time just picking them up off the cloth to put into the jug I store them in, they kept slipping out from between my fingers.
I have a total of $10 invested in this experiment of mine. I use roughly 5grains of h-BN per tumble (200 bullets) and $10 got me 385grains. I should be good for quite some time, and hopefully this process will help with throat erosion and overall barrel life. So what if I have to use just a bit more powder to get the velocity back up, I would say its worth it.
I just got a new 6creed barrel and decided I wanted to do something about extending the barrel life as much as possible. I will be loading H1000 to help with that some, but I have also decided to start coating the bullets in Hex Boron Nitride. Its easy enough to do, dump some bullets in an old 1lb powder jug, put 1/4tsp of h-BN in said jug, wedge jug into Franford Arsenal SS Media tumbler, tumble for 45mins to an hour, dump everything out on a microfiber cloth, wipe off the excess and then load.
These things get slippery once coated. I had a hard time just picking them up off the cloth to put into the jug I store them in, they kept slipping out from between my fingers.
I have a total of $10 invested in this experiment of mine. I use roughly 5grains of h-BN per tumble (200 bullets) and $10 got me 385grains. I should be good for quite some time, and hopefully this process will help with throat erosion and overall barrel life. So what if I have to use just a bit more powder to get the velocity back up, I would say its worth it.