strange question on graphite

82boy

82boy

Patrick Kennedy
Just curious if anyone has ever done this. I, like many, treat my barrel with colloidal graphite after cleaning. I know then benefits to doing this, and have done it for years. Here is my question; has anyone tried to coat bullets in graphite? I notice that liquid wrench makes a dry lube in an aerosol can, which I believe is white graphite, or Moto mica. Has anyone sprayed down bullets with this stuff, prior to loading them? just curious if anyone has done it, before I try it, or could tell me if this is the right path or not.
 
Patrick, I've tried it in the past and thought that it worked better than molly.
I applied the powdered graphite the same way you do molly and thought that it worked every bit as good as molly. The barrel didn't heat up as much as with molly and the groups settled in faster however, I quit using both just because of the mess and the time it took to apply. I guess I'm too lazy. I think it would be a good thing for varmint hunters to do where you shoot many rounds in a short period of time. Al.
 
Back before synthetic oils when moly was a useful additive to engine oils, I recall reading that moly was a flat crystal like a sheet of paper, one of its desirable characteristics was that the crystals were harder than diamond in one plane & softer than talc in another. The benefit was claimed to be that they would not plate up on themselves but would "wipe" off to less than a few microns deep. The comparison made was that graphite's crystalline nature resulted on that product building up on itself o substantially greater depths - exactly as we experience with carbon in another form, powder residue.
 
82Boy Try Lock-ease, I know there are a few guys in PA 1000 club that use it and shoot very well. Tried it didn't like the mess.

Joe Salt
 
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