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Posted: 2/21/2009 10:44:56 AM EDT
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A friend talked me into letting him apply Moly to two boxes of Sierra 168 HPBTs.
That was several years ago and now I want to use them, without the Moly. Is this possible and if so, whats the best way to do it. My search turned up nothing. Thanks, Danny 
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I'll give it a try in the morning, no spirits to work with here other than beer at the moment. This stuff is on there. Danny Alcohol might do it. ETA: Are you worried about barrel fouling? I don't know for sure, but I would expect tumbling the crap out of them would remove MOST of the molly that would wind up in your barrel. You might not ever get the stuff out of the pores of the copper completely. |
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The bullets will always have some moly on them. Just shoot them. Why not just shoot them? Yeah, just shoot them. I've bought two boxes of Lapua 338 250gr Lock Base bullets and both came heavily mollied. Frankly, a nasty job because Lapua doesn't 'silver jacket' the LBs. On the first box, I got 20 cleaned up pretty well, but the second batch of 20 (just for A/B comparison purposes) I couldn't get that stuff off for the life of me. Two batches of media, 2.5 hours and no dice. They did come out looking like the silver jackets, so I'm just going to shoot them as is. I guess my point is is that sometimes moly doesn't come off too well. Chris |
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Maybe i just don't understand but why would you want to remove the molly from a coated bullet? Shooting moly coated bullets is against some people's religion. Actually, if done properly, the molly powder gets pounded into the pores of the bullet jacket and it gets embedded thoroughly. Me? I just wanted to clock naked and coated .338 Lapua LB bullets through my Sako TRG-42 and see if there was a velocity difference. Chris |
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put the bullets in a ziploc and then squirt in some dishwashing soap (no water). squish the bullets around really really good, then wipe with a paper towel and rinse with water. It's pretty hard to get all of the moly off, but you can remove enough that it won't matter anymore. The key is to get the soap directly on the bullets before adding any water.
I used to moly-coat a bunch of stuff, but I gave up several years ago––-too much work for not enough gain (for me). |
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Thanks for the replies.
I shoot only regular bullets and got talked into letting him moly coat them, I hear him now saying how much extra work it is to clean the barrels and I want no part of that. I like to keep things simple. It may not be as bad as he says it is to clean, who knows...he is a perfectionist. Danny 
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