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Well, in the course of checking my inventory of 55 grain Nosler ballistic tips, for which I have none, I wound up swapping for 1 partial box of the 55 grain Nosler / Winchester ballistic silvertips.
Now, I have never shot anything 'coated' in any of my barrels, and am not sure if I want to jump into these or just drop back & go to the 50 grain ballistic tips that I have....
Evidently, I figured I was shooting the 50's and bought some at every turn. I have 300+ of those, so it wont be an issue for a long time.
Anybody swapped back & forth on these???
I am shooting the 55 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip / 22.0 grains of Accurate 2230 with a Federal 200 primer in my LVSF 700
just curious...burt2506
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I've heard several times that the Lubalox coating can allow swapping back and forth with uncoated bullets, but that it's generally a good idea to run a few shots through the barrel when swapping before shooting for groups.
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I shot 180's coated and uncoated from my 30-06 and didn't have any difference in accuracy switching back and forth. I did have to bump up the charge slightly with the coated bullets to get the same accuracy.
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Sounds to me like it might not be worth it.....I might just move to the 50 grain Ballistic Tip and call it good.
Thanks guys......
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I interchange them with no issues.
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I shoot both with no issues. The lubalox seems to actually foul less than the uncoated ones.
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I use the Ballistic Silvertips in 300WM, 25-06, and .270, and find they always group tighter than the uncoated Ballistic Tips by a slight margin. Could be more consistent velocities but I don't keep track of the data.
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As soon as the weather will cooperate, I plan to drop down to a 50 grain bullet.
Might sell the silvertips.......thanks guys.
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I load them for 7 mags, very accurate
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Don’t back down from them. Lubalox just makes them pretty.
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I have a 300 WM that was a copper mine with a really rough barrel. Did the Tubb grit coated bullet treatment then dyna bore coated it and after that only used the ballistic silver tips with the Lubalox coating.
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