Can you use coated bullets in a DI PCC AR or will the coating burn off and clog the gas system?

Steve.........

Nobody's ever tried it? I hate to be the Guinea Pig.

Steve........

Go for it...whats the worst that can happen. You clog up a $12 gas tube? Big deal....buy a new one. Tap out the roll pin that holds it in the front sight base....pull the tube out through the upper receiver and slide a new one in and reinsert the roll pin. no biggie...

you'll be fine.
the powder doesn't come off, unless you scrape it off.

the home test to make sure you got the coating on properly is to take a hammer and smash a bullet.
the powder coating will go wherever the bullet goes and take on any shape the bullet takes.

I have even swaged bullets up from 323 to 358 diameter with a coat on them and they take that much adjustment with no problems.

I asked a friend that's deep into powder coating
and does several thousand a month with his son and girl friend.

He brought in a couple dozen picked from the
rocky berm they shoot into. Many were scratched and all dented.

Almost couldn't find any bare lead showing where it had scraped off. I'm convinced.

He said shooting a badly leaded 9mm carbine a few hundred pc'd bullets had cleaned the leading out better than many sessions of cleaning had using lead out chemicals til he
just gave up on it and started shooting the pc'd shells.
You won't shoot enough to clog that gas tube with powder coating.

George

Thanks for the info guys, I have had almost no experience with coated bullets so far. With everyone's advice I think I'll do as KY Nimrod said and shoot the snot out of it.

Steve......