Home Forums Reloading Varmint Rifles Bullet moly removal

I've never messed with moly bullet coating.
I've got a couple hundred bullets on their way to me that are moly coated.
I'd like to remove the moly.
Thought I had read the simplest way to remove is just tumble until gone.

What have you had in your experience to be the best removal method?

Thanks,

R.D.

yup I do..... and you've suggested exactly what I've done...

Tumble it, I use Walnut media....

usually throw it in when I go to bed, let it run overnight, and it gets turned off when I think to do so the next day...

has always worked just fine...

Good deal

Thank you for the info.
I use walnut media also, reptile bedding.
Much cheaper than reloading media and finer (smaller size), therefore doesn't get hung up in the primer holes.


Thanks again,

R.D.

Bar Keepers Friend. Spin them around in a stout solution. Takes the stuff right off.

Advantages to removing the moly?

I also just bought several hundred with moly, never used them before.

The general rule is to shoot one or the other, but not both in the same barrel.

Shooting uncoated bullets after using moly increases the rate of copper buildup in the barrels, and makes it very difficult to every get it all out.

Even when using only moly bullets it's common that after cleaning it takes 8 or 10 rounds to re-season the barrel before the gun will group again.

I played with it in the past, but have sworn off it.

Yeah, this.

Switching back and forth between coated and uncoated bullets CAN work, but often it doesn't, and creates some weird issues, such as the rate of copper fouling when firing non-coated bullets in a barrel that usually shoots coated bullets. I dealt with a bit of that last fall, because I couldn't be bothered to clean the seasoned barrel before shooting a bunch of non-coated bullets. Accuracy went to hell fast, and I could see copper all over the lands in the muzzle. OTOH my brother swaps back and forth with a 300 SAUM, and it's the damnedest thing that not only does he never have issues, but the barrel doesn't seem to require seasoning or de-seasoning. I wouldn't believe it if I hadn't seen it repeatedly. He just goes back and forth willy-nilly, then gives me grief for telling him it shouldn't work that way.

Thanks, I had no idea this was an issue.

Hot water, empty Gatorade bottle, a squirt of Bar Keeper’s Friend. Cap it,shake, roll rattle a couple minutes. Comes right off...

My technique is to wet-tumble bullets only with a little snort of Dawn in enough warm water to cover the bullets. Then rinse by chucking in a pot of boiling water, giving a good shake and pouring the mess out on a cookie sheet. Can use a warm oven, like 150, to speed things up. Then a short dry tumble in new media to get the blems off and you're good. But Dawn is really effective stuff.

Soak them in Hoppes #9 overnite, wipe them clean .

Soak them in Hoppes #9 overnite, wipe them clean .