Something just for aesthetic.

[widnerkj]

So a long long time ago, one of the online ammo sellers that a buy at fairly often had a pretty awesome sale on 147 grain FMJ .300 blackout ammo. The deal was pretty good because it was but a case, get another free. But the thing I liked the best, was the brass was dyed black. So if you reload for example a 110 grain Barnes TTX, it was like dude from “pimp my ride” was in the reloading room. “Yo dawg! Heard you like black! We got you some black tipped bullets, in black brass, chambered in blackout, for your black rifle!”

I really dig using this brass, and was thinking about dyeing some more. Just because it looks good. Any one have ideas how to dye brass? Any experience doing so? I might attempt to electroplate it, simply because I’m swimming in 5.56 LC brass.

 

[one-eyed Jack]

Black oxide. Do it yourself. Jack.

 

[Boghog1]

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[not new guy]

Can you just roast the rounds over an open flame after you load them? Just make sure not to overcook them.

 

[widnerkj]

Black oxide. Do it yourself. Jack.

I knew you would have the fastest most accurate reply. Thanks Jack.

 

[45BPCR]

You can buy it from Sig.
Personally, for the price, I'd use a Sharpie on my handloads that I hate making.
But that's just me.

 

[Road_Clam]

No love for me loading 300 BLACKout supersonic. But load me up some 220gr cast subs food and now im happy...

 

[38ExtraSpecial]

Love that look.

I have some 45 LC black powder loads I pulled down for a friend. I washed the brass off because the BP was kind of caked in there.
Well I forgot the brass in some water for a couple days. Boy did it look cool after I tumbled them up. Looked ancient.

 

[widnerkj]

No love for me loading 300 BLACKout supersonic. But load me up some 220gr cast subs food and now im happy...

For me personally, the .300 blackout with a bunch of H110 pushing a nosler 110 grain varmegeddon is about perfect. But that’s used hiking around and breaking apart jack rabbits, and putting coyotes to sleep.

 

[45collector]

Love that look.

I have some 45 LC black powder loads I pulled down for a friend. I washed the brass off because the BP was kind of caked in there.
Well I forgot the brass in some water for a couple days. Boy did it look cool after I tumbled them up. Looked ancient.
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Are you loading .451/.452/.454/.457 ball in .45 Colt? I've heard of guys doing that with black powder but for the life of me I can't figure out why you'd want to.

 

[38ExtraSpecial]

Are you loading .451/.452/.454/.457 ball in .45 Colt? I've heard of guys doing that with black powder but for the life of me I can't figure out why you'd want to.

Well the main reason is cheap light recoil loads.
The second reason would be to load 2 balls in 1 case. Lots of fun!

However those are “ballets” from a modified Lyman round ball mould that I happen to treasure. Someone turned it into a small bullet with a lube groove.

 

[38ExtraSpecial]

Found a pic of the mould.

 

[45collector]

Well the main reason is cheap light recoil loads.
The second reason would be to load 2 balls in 1 case. Lots of fun!

However those are “ballets” from a modified Lyman round ball mould that I happen to treasure. Someone turned it into a small bullet with a lube groove.

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Pretty cool! I load .45 Colt with Trail Boss mostly. I have never tried loading for it with black powder, mainly because I don't want to clean that crap out of any of my three guns in .45 Colt!
I do have a .38 that I wouldn't care about dirtying though. Maybe I'll work up a BP load for that.