Moly Coated Bullets...Yes or No?

[GrinerBros]

My dealer is out of my favorite Sierra .243 Blitz bullets but has them in the moly coated style for 102.00 for a box of 500. I have good luck with several rifles with the plain bullets and an worried about moving to the moly style.

Anyone have luck with them?

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[dogtag]

I've never used them as I shoot only lead. BUT, a friend of mine used them and gunked up his barrel something fierce. I could hear him swearing from miles away

[Matt Anthony]

Before using Moly coated bullets, you need to read about the process of coating and the barrel prep plus the differences in cleaning procedures.
I use moly coated bullets, both jacketed and cast and can't say anything but good things about moly.
Extended cleaning intervals, no leading or copper fouling and better accuracy. I honestly don't understand what the other post indicated, gunking his barrel! That makes absolutely no sense!
So I say YES, use moly and make sure you use Kroil, that seems to be the only compound that will get under the moly and keep moisture from pitting the barrel.
Matt

[AKA Hugh Uno]

at least for me. I got on the moly-bandwagon for a while about 10 - 12 years ago, but at the pressures I was shooting (i.e. modest), there was no real advantage for me. likewise, the benchrest world had a crush on moly for a year or so, then everyone figured out there really wasn't any benefit. Today, essentially nobody uses it anymore.

As for the downside, Moly is HYDROPHILIC (attracts water). Thus, unless you live in Arizona, you need to ensure than you either clean up well and then use some anti-rust coating or at least make sure you lube up your bore generously with CLP or other appropriate rust preventative.

The only real blessing of Moly that I can figure out (it does NOT extend bore life), is that it does LOWER PRESSURE a bit, thus allowing you to add another grain or so of powder for a bit more velocity. This may or may not be all that important for 99% of us.

Sprinco USA -- Truth about Moly

[John Kepler]

Moly is fairly common in Highpower simply because it reduces metal fouling and keeps the rifle shooting consistently for "Across-The-Course" matches. For us, that makes it worth looking at.

BTW, the Sprinco article is largely BS delivered by a company with an agenda and a competing product!

[gunner]

For my LR Rifle i only use moly coated ammo, it`s a tick better.

Gunner

[slamfire1]

Moly is fairly common in Highpower simply because it reduces metal fouling and keeps the rifle shooting consistently for "Across-The-Course" matches. For us, that makes it worth looking at.

BTW, the Sprinco article is largely BS delivered by a company with an agenda and a competing product!

I am noticing less and less people are using Moly. Talking to one of the guys on Tubb's team, they still have to clean their barrels every night or..... (and it has happened).

My bolt gun smith, who has won the Long Range Championship, gave up on moly. Claimed that his long range scores were consistently a couple points lower. This guy, he has barrels in his rafters. If he thinks he is loosing it, he just pulls "the barrel I shot 200-17X" puts it on, and sees if he has lost it. That it how he decided moly was not worth using. He shot moly for a couple of years, started switching to non moly barrels and loads, shot better, switched back, shot worse. That was good enough for him.

And he said, "moly gets fingerprinted on everything."

I never used the stuff. I was just another thing to go wrong.

[John Kepler]

Long Range isn't XC! I don't moly my LR ammo either. My numbers say it has advantages XC, so that's where I use it. If the numbers said any different, I wouldn't.

[GrinerBros]

Wow, looks like I'll just stay with the regular bullets since I can get them by ordering them at the same price since the molys are at an old price.

Thanks to those who contributed.

[jmoore]

If you want to shoot moly bullets start with a new barrel and stick w/ it! Don't swap back and forth unless you like being disappointed.