Hornady Moly tips or not Need info

mallardshoot

mallardshoot

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Hi guys, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on the moly tipped bullets in Hornady's 55gr V-Max. I have heard two theories on them and need the "myth" busted. I'm starting from scratch with a new Savage .223 and just don't know what to look for to kill coyotes other than I know I want something in the 55gr range.
Are they any good? Any problems with build up in the barrel? Are they better or worse than the regular V-Max ammo.
Thanks for any insight you may have on this.

Rick

P.S. Just so it's clear this is fully loaded factory ammo not just the bullets. I don't reload and in all honesty probably never will.
 
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I don't think you'd be disappointed with non-moly V-Max's. Some people swear by moly bullets, some swear at them. I don't think critters have an opinion either way.

I just got a few hundred moly Berger VLD's cheaper than non-moly's and ran them through the tumbler this morning to take the moly coating off. It's easier and normally cheaper to get non-moly bullets so it didn't make much sense for me to develop loads for a few hundred bullets.
 
For what its worth .. my groups with moly v-max average 3/4 of an inch larger than the standard non-moly v-max in MY rifle. Ill stick to the non-moly
 
I shoot the moly coated vmax 55's out of my CZ 527 Varminter and it likes the Molys noticably better than the plain ones. My R15 likes non moly bullets better. I have a bunch of Black Hills moly 223 in 50 and 60 grs that I bought for the R15 that I need to get rid of.
 
If you're talking a "colony" varmint rifle, I found one very negative thing about molyed bullets.

If you blow off a bunch of rounds through pdog rigs, you have to clean. When you clean, you strip out the moly layer. When you strip out the moly layer, it usually takes 10-15 shots to season the bore again before it starts shooting normally.

I found that cycling through four rifles, I was blowing off ~60 each trip out just in "foulers". At the time, I was pdogging 3-4 days a week.

The cost in bullets, powder, and barrel wear was just too much.

I now shoot naked bullets only.

Mike
 
Are you thinking that the red tip is moly? Moly coated bullets are blackish in color. The red tip is plastic and will not coat your barrel.
 
Moly coated bullets are all I shoot in my p-dog guns.
I moly all my own. You will like em or hate em. I punch 1/2" clover holes with all my varmint rigs using molys.
One gun (Savage FP10) has going on 42k rounds through it, all moly, bore is perfect to this day and I bought it new in 1986. Copper build up, not anything like a naked bullet thats for sure. This one gun still puts them in at 1/2"-5/8" @ 100 yds. on paper after all these years.
Messy...can be, carry loose in pocket, sure, but expect the residue to rub off in them. Marks your fingers, yes, thats what soap or hand wipes are for right?
Hard to clean barrels, no, nothing overly hard to do if you clean your guns good in the 1st place.
Are varmints going to know the difference....not at all.
Want to put moly fingerprints on everything, go moly. Want to stay clean go naked........
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