Moly coated bullets

[krisw]

Thoughts on them? Who uses them? I shoot the Winchester supreme ballistic silver tips out of my .270WSM. Its the only round that's been down the barrel. The gun is sub moa with them and I haven't lost an animal as of yet.

I won't lie though, I don't know a ton about the pluses to being coated. All I've ever really picked up was less friction.

Just late night wonderings about hunting stuff

[okrattler]

I killed my first deer with the same setup you have.The bullet connected at 275 yards and it was a done deal.I think that all Moly coated bullets are supposed to do is shoot cleaner and improve accuracy from what I understood about them.Other than that I really don't know much about them other than they'll kill a deer deader than a doornail.

[jooger17]

I don't know a thing about them other than the Supreme's in 140gr leave a nasty hole out of my 7mm08!!! That is exactly what I am looking for out of a bullet!

[Tye]

I use them and they work great

[DidIDoThat]

Unless you shoot a lot, I mean 100's of rounds, you probably will never know the difference in moly and nonmoly rounds. I would imagine the typical deer hunter doesn't go through more than a couple of boxes a year, at that rate moly is a marketing thing. It's been my experience that moly actually slows the bullet down just a little, after a 100 or so of them, but if your reloading your own you can make up for that by heating up your loads a little.

[krisw]

I'll keep shooting them because they look cool. Lol. I need to get a chrono and check them sometime

[rtp]

I'll keep shooting them because they look cool. Lol.

You can watch your bullets flying through the air?

[32drawlength]

My understanding was that the Winchester Ballistic tips are NOT molys per their website

[muddyfuzzy]

i like them, especially in over bored barrel eating cartridges. i shoot 55 gr. v-max moly's in my .22-.250. they flat out shoot. the moly helps reduce barrel friction, thus, promoting greater barrel life.

[krisw]

You can watch your bullets flying through the air?

Can't you? Lol

[texag93]

My understanding was that the Winchester Ballistic tips are NOT molys per their website

Correct. It's their Lubalux coating, not moly. I never bought into the moly fad. I know it's a #%*@& to clean out of a barrel.
The Combined Technology bullets shoot tiny groups out of my 308.

[bphillips]

Correct. It's their Lubalux coating, not moly. I never bought into the moly fad. I know it's a #%*@& to clean out of a barrel.
The Combined Technology bullets shoot tiny groups out of my 308.

.. Not all bullets shoot the same in every gun so its not guaranteed it will shoot any better either.

[HOYTPRO2001]

I know that moly coated bullets (I coat all mine with powered moly) will shoot slightly slower due to less friction in the case neck. I add about 2/10ths grain of powder to compensate the loss in speed. It does not effect the accuracy that I have noticed at all.
It does make barrel cleaning easier for moly reduces the amount of copper fouling normally found from non-moly coated bullets.
You can buy bulk powdered moly from Midway USA and coat your own bullets for fractions of the cost of factory added expense. Using a vibratory tumbler and medicine bottles, a 1/4 of a teaspoon will do over a 100 bullets.