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<blockquote data-quote="65WSM" data-source="post: 2956239" data-attributes="member: 9551"><p>I have two and a half decades of shooting HBN coated bullets. Before that I shot "Molly" coated bullets. I believe that the "Combined Technology" Lubaloy coating may be best coating I have tried. My motto is "no naked bullets". So if you ask for comparison, I cannot help you. I shoot at the end of a club range that is about 540 yards, say 500 meters, and regularly shoot groups that are in the twos (0.2 MOA) from .224 caliber rifles. I shoot a variety of varmint calibers from .17 Fireball to .243 WSSM, all with HBN coated bullets. It is very often that the first coated bullet down a cold clean barrel (I shoot in the cold, often below freezing, today our high was 28 degrees) and it is "in the group" and doesn't hurt the SD. I have cleaned bullets only once or twice, I just dump the bullets, blems or top grade, in the shot, add a dose of HBN and tumble for a couple of hours. I used to give the bullets the wool sock treatment, coming out of the tumbler but rarely do now. The seating die will leave a ring or not depending on the neck tension, I also sort my cases by weight and not clean the inside of the neck between firings. I like to tumble in pins and then sort by weight but if I do not tumble, I do not mess up the weight sorted order. If I do tumble, mostly for other club members I try to keep shooting, I polish the inside of the necks with steel wool on an worn out bore brush in a corded electric drill that has speed. Below I moved one click right for the full 5 shot group. The circle is two inches.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="65WSM, post: 2956239, member: 9551"] I have two and a half decades of shooting HBN coated bullets. Before that I shot "Molly" coated bullets. I believe that the "Combined Technology" Lubaloy coating may be best coating I have tried. My motto is "no naked bullets". So if you ask for comparison, I cannot help you. I shoot at the end of a club range that is about 540 yards, say 500 meters, and regularly shoot groups that are in the twos (0.2 MOA) from .224 caliber rifles. I shoot a variety of varmint calibers from .17 Fireball to .243 WSSM, all with HBN coated bullets. It is very often that the first coated bullet down a cold clean barrel (I shoot in the cold, often below freezing, today our high was 28 degrees) and it is "in the group" and doesn't hurt the SD. I have cleaned bullets only once or twice, I just dump the bullets, blems or top grade, in the shot, add a dose of HBN and tumble for a couple of hours. I used to give the bullets the wool sock treatment, coming out of the tumbler but rarely do now. The seating die will leave a ring or not depending on the neck tension, I also sort my cases by weight and not clean the inside of the neck between firings. I like to tumble in pins and then sort by weight but if I do not tumble, I do not mess up the weight sorted order. If I do tumble, mostly for other club members I try to keep shooting, I polish the inside of the necks with steel wool on an worn out bore brush in a corded electric drill that has speed. Below I moved one click right for the full 5 shot group. The circle is two inches. [/QUOTE]
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