Midway is selling repackaged 338 caliber 250 grain Nosler Partition Golds for $4.99/50.

These are moly coated, but I can take care of that all by myself.

Midway Link

I grabbed 500 just to make sure I didn't run out.

Midway ?. Is selling 250 grian noslers for $ 4.99 / #50 . That's dirt cheap isn't it !. I shall pickup some for the Browning Win Mag.


Now I know why I never seem to have money left over !. Still a bargin is a bargin !!.Thanks

Thanks for the heads up! I ordered a couple hundred. That should kill bears for the next twenty years

Now how do you get the moly off bullets?

It's probably really not moly. It's very hard to take off the bullets but it really doesn't matter. I had some of their 150's when they were on sale. I soaked them in pure ammonia and it barely got a little off. I think it's really their "lubalox". Just shoot em and clean as normal.....everything will be fine.

UPS just delivered mine today. These looks like the old style PGs with real moly (it comes off all over your fingers). It's not a slick teflon-looking finish like on the Combined Technologies Ballistic Tip bullets (Lubalox?).

I'll run them through my tumbler for a couple of hours and hopefully they'll come out bright and shiney.

NBHunter, is Midway going to ship the bullets to you in Canada? I thought they stopped shipping to Canada.

OK ... so why would one want to remove the coating? Is there a problem with moly on hunting projectiles?

thanks,

Mike,

Some folks believe Moly causes more problems in the long run than it solves, gumming up the barrel with hard to remove deposits of black goo.

FWIW, I've been told by one of our local High Power gurus that the best way to remove moly is to put the bullets in a strainer and spray with brake cleaner while agitating the strainer. Bullets should end up nice and clean...

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Originally posted by hart:
NBHunter, is Midway going to ship the bullets to you in Canada? I thought they stopped shipping to Canada.

I live next to the border and have a mail delivery box in Houlton. My wife loves to go over there for chinese food so I just pick up my goodies while we're over and take them through customs on my own. I get half of my reloading stuff on my side of the border but you get tired of getting gouged on the prices so bad that I go through the extra trouble to save money.

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Originally posted by kraky:
It's probably really not moly. It's very hard to take off the bullets but it really doesn't matter. I had some of their 150's when they were on sale. I soaked them in pure ammonia and it barely got a little off. I think it's really their "lubalox". Just shoot em and clean as normal.....everything will be fine.

According to Nosler's web site, the Partition Gold bullets are moly coated. (Except the moly-free version, of course.)

http://www.nosler.com/index.php?p=3&bullet=12

I purchased 600 of the bullets from Midway. I plan to remove the moly. I did a search here on AR and found that some people were recommending Mean Green Super Strength Cleaner Degreaser for removing the moly from bullets. I've never tried it, though. I guess I'll find out soon enough.

-Bob F.

I've now tried two different concentrated cleaner/de-greasers (one after the other) on the moly coated bullets and neither did much good at all. They did take some of the loose moly off, but there's still plenty there to rub off on your fingers. The cleaners I used are a whole lot more powerful than the Simple Green Concentrate.

Brake cleaner didn't do a damn thing.

I'm going back to the old-fashioned method, I have 300 bullets in my tumbler now. At least the bullets started a little cleaner than usual and maybe I won't have to pitch the media after this tumble.

UPDATE:
After three hours in the tumbler, they're still not completely moly-free. At least now they're not leaving dirty footprints everywhere they go, so it's good enough for me. At $4.99/50, I won't complain too loudly.

HMMMMM--what did I tell you in my original post??? It's said to be molly....it looks like moly.....at first chance it comes off like molly but....boy the last stuff comes off like Armor! My advice is to stop (possibly) changing the jacket with all kinds of cleaners and degreasers and tumbling. Accept it....shoot it...its not a problem.

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Originally posted by kraky:
Accept it....shoot it...its not a problem.

I've now come to this conclusion. I just like to bang my head against the wall for a while first.

What is the difference between "combined technologies" and "combined technology"?

Once I click on "combined technologies", it leads me to the add for the bullets, and they are then called, "combined technology", in a Frankfort box, not a Nosler / Winchester box.

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Originally posted by tnekkcc:
...in a Frankfort box, not a Nosler / Winchester box.

Midway does this every now & then. Apparently they buy in bulk, "repack" them into their own plastic boxes, and sell them cheap.

Same bullets.

Don't know if it works, but read an article on moly that stated that MEK (methyl ethyl alcohol) will remove moly coatings. Might be worth a try as its readily available at hardware stores!!!

http://www.scorecard.org/chemical-profiles/summary.tcl?...substance_id=78-93-3

METHYL ETHYL KETONE is not alcohol, it is nasty stuff. It used to be in capacitors that I would accidently blow up. I always left the area for a long time.


I am grateful for this thread, I orderd 500 bullets for $70 delivered. Great deal for .338 partions. I like moly. Now I just need a 338 Win Mag reamer

tnekkcc: Your right about MEK not being alcohol; my typo mistake. Should have read methyl ethyl ketone. To my knowledge, it is sold in hardwares and is safe to use per instructions.

MEK is good at trashing livers. I use it, but always outside in a breeze, and wearing a respirator and rubber gloves. Nasty stuff. I have mainly used it as part of a solvent mixture to thin........moly based spray to bake onto steel gun parts....

It won't screw up the copper. I leave it on FailSafe and Partition Gold bullets becaus of the steel cups inside the back ends of those bullets. They don't yield very well. that causes increased pressure (especially in the FailSafe). The moly helps ease that. Doesn't seem to make a difference in a hunting rifle, for me, so far, anyway. YMMV.

LD

Thanks for the "heads up", got 500 delivered for $65.00 incl. $3.30 NRA roundup. When I called I asked if they had any left and was told they had 1450 boxes. As for the moly - the ones I recieved seem to be pretty hard coated, very little comes off on my fingers. Per posts in this thread I guess I'l just shoot "as is". Any special cleaning needed following moly coated bullets? Thanks HL

Looks like they are no longer available.

Yeah, I couldn't find them either. Don't think I was quite fast enough. Deals like that really need to be taken advantage of.

mike

Now it says:

Status: Discontinued by Manufacturer

Well I missed out again

If anybody here got a few more than they really care to shoot I would gladly buy some from you with a little markup and pay the shipping.


Don

The Partition Golds are a great bullet. I was shooting the 180gr in my 300WM since they come out till 2004, now I love the Accubonds. But the PG's are a great performer on big game. At the gun range, they were going thru 3/4" steel plates at 300yrds. Devastating on the moose and elk I've shot over the years!

As to the Moly coat, its Moly and not the Lublox coating as one person posted. The Moly is grey, the Lubalox coating is black. (failsafes, ballistic silvertips, accubond CT's).

For myself, I prefer the coating in my rifles, as I get tighter groups.

I may just have to check here in Alberta now for some 338WM bullets as I'm contemplating on a new Sako m75 Grey Wolf 338WM.