Does anyone make a powder coated 200gr WFN for reloading?
I thought I read something about that on here.
https://www.montanabulletworks.com/product/10mm-lbt-200gr-wfn-pb/ (https://www.montanabulletworks.com/product/10mm-lbt-200gr-wfn-pb/)
Or you can get on Beartooth's waiting list & coat em' yourself :)
What he said......
A 30 dollar toaster oven, a little powder paint, and a Cool Whip tub and you're in business.
The only thing else you'll need is a wire tray to go in the oven......go by any big truck repair shop and get a big truck filter out of the trash, take the wire (kind of an expanded metal) off and fashion it into a tray.....
Some people like to take tweezers and pick up the coated bullets and stand them one by one up on a piece of non stick aluminum, but I just coat 'em, dump the whole thing on the wire tray with a piece of cardboard under the tray to recover unused powder.....shake the tray to spread out the bullets and to shake off excess powder...stick 'em in the oven and you're done....you'll have random bare spots where the coating sticks to the tray, but I've never had an issue...if it bothers you, coat them again before you size them, and there won't be any bare spots.
NOE Specials this week have a 200 grain WFN 3 cavity mold on sale:
http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product_info.php?products_id=3234&osCsid=s5uqoe7u87gvr6elrotvaorgu2
I have this mold in their RG variant which has interchangeable nose pins. This allows me to cast a 200 grain WFN or a 180 grain HP. I have been vary impressed with the quality of NOE molds, and now have about ten different molds from them.
Casting you own my not be your thing, but if you wanted to try it out, this is a good deal on a mold.
That is a good deal :)
Quote from: sqlbullet on March 15 2017 08:03:00 AM MDT
NOE Specials this week have a 200 grain WFN 3 cavity mold on sale:
http://noebulletmolds.com/NV/product_info.php?products_id=3234&osCsid=s5uqoe7u87gvr6elrotvaorgu2
I have this mold in their RG variant which has interchangeable nose pins. This allows me to cast a 200 grain WFN or a 180 grain HP. I have been vary impressed with the quality of NOE molds, and now have about ten different molds from them.
Casting you own my not be your thing, but if you wanted to try it out, this is a good deal on a mold.
How does the weight of the bullet change by 20 grains, difference in the nose pin?
The Nose pins are a part of the mold, you can have a flat pin yielding the heavier max bullet weight. Then you can change to a pointed pin (Hollow Pointer Pin) as the cast fills in around this pin which sticks deeper inside below the normal flat section it creates a hollow point bullet, there is less metal because of that it and it weighs a little less...
Example of mold pins
(http://www.hollowpointmold.com/pictures/cramer-style-molds/Cramered-RCBS41-210-swcDualPins.jpg)
Try snscasting.com they offer several styles and calibers and you can try sample packs.
Quote from: lancer 49 on March 16 2017 08:39:45 PM MDT
Try snscasting.com they offer several styles and calibers and you can try sample packs.
SNS' 200gr is a RN.