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Originally Posted by J. Scott Hanes
Did you heat in a kitchen oven? What medium did you quench the shot in? Most shot has a coating of graphite to make it slick. Perhaps the graphite was 'baked' off?
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Its a small portable oven I have in the garage, I just quenched it in room temp water let it sit for a few minutes. Im assuming it may be graphite I thought it had a higher temp range than 420F though it could be any sort of coating though it doesnt seem to rub off or leave a residue on your hands but does inside the bottle it comes in. I read mica basically does the same thing as graphite but it has a much higher temperature rating. Now mica does get on everything and all over the place its pretty messy lol.
Ive seen a wide variety of buckshot coatings a cheap popular one is graphite mixed with Lee Alox. I suppose if you wanted to squeeze the absolute most performance out of lead shot you could heat treat it then coat it or powder coat it and use it in a buffered load. In theory that should give the best results but I havnt seen anyone try all those together probably because it would be time consuming.
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