Anyone ever paint their own bullet tips to keep them identified?

If so, any advice would be appreciated.

I thimk pink is puurtee !!



Sorry, couldn't help myself. I think it's silly too.

edited to add; it has to lower bc.

I must be stupid for putting different ammo in different labeled containers.  Off to the craft store!

When I need to mark loads I use fine Sharpie markers and put letters, numbers, or shapes on the primers.

Thank you for the link, I was referring more to loading tracer bullets, I did not want to get them mixed in with regular ball ammo.

I also mark the base of my brass when I will be at a range where my ejected brass will mix with the junk on the ground.  I only pick up my own brass.  Actually, a range I used to shoot at would only allow picking up your own brass.

Sometimes it's hard to tell if those bullets you found in a clear MTM case from last year are 155 grainers, or 175 grainers!

I have found that the best method for me is when I have a batch of new rounds loaded, while they're in the loading tray or MTM box I take a colored Sharpie and run them down the bullets on four sides.  I have a legend identifying what color means what - purple means heavies, either 69 grain bullets in say .223 or 175 grain bullets in .308.  Red is for medium weight bullets.  You have to make a legend so that you don't forget.  It only takes a second to run the Sharpie across them, and their is no degredation to accuracy.  Buy a ten pack or so of Sharpies from Wal-Mart and you're good to go.

But sometimes they don't


Dunno if it's ok to put in the link or not, I'm not affiliated with them.

I find the ones I paint to be lucky

The ones in my avatar did this at 50 yards, for me this is an amazing group because I suck with irons since I can't see shit! Plus they were pretty crappy looking pulled projectiles!








As for the thread that was linked to, I found that the spray paint method doesnt that well. I was able to drill 40 holes perfectly into a 1/4" piece of wood and place it over the ammo in a shell holder and whether it was oriented upright or upside down the paint clumped where the projectile met the wood.

I have found that you can rather quickly paint the tips using my old and slow method of just filling a testor's paint lid half way, quickly dipping the round and then lightly souching the side of the lid and all excess paint comes off, then place the round on a stripper clip. It took me about 10 minutes to do 100rds, much simpler and easier then messing with spray paint.