RE: What does "moly" mean
 

If you plan to moly coat your self, keep in mind that moly is nearly impossible to clean off of any surface. If you get it on your clothes, work bench, garage floor ect..... it will be there forever.

RE: What does "moly" mean
 

The only stuff I have found to get most of the moly out is Kroil
oil and a hell of a lot of elbow grease..Like I mentioned,I have
seen no benifit in the moly bullets...I have friends that tried them
in thier rifles while shooting for the Marines rifle team. They no
longer use them either..So this speaks for it's self....

RE: What does "moly" mean
 

Yours is an excellent question! To which I would reply, "yes and no"! The coating will often permit a reloader to achieve higher velocities with lower pressures than if using a plain, uncoated bullet. On the other hand, IN SOME BARRELS, the coating material has built up, and caused a loss of accuracy. In such barrels, the coating material is also the very devil to get out so the barrel can be restored to original condition.

The only experience I have personally had with coated bullets was with cast bullets using a paint-on lubricant containing MoS2 that dried on the bullet after you painted it on. (Master Lube or something like that.) The stuff degraded the accuracy of my Ruger No. 3 .30/40 Krag, and it took a real effort to scrubit all out of the bore and finally restore the gun's accuracy. The gun shot poorly for about a year, but is now back to normal. It also affected the accuracy of jacketed bullet loads Ifired in the gun after shooting the cast bullets. But, for some reason, the stuff worked real well when painted on Minie balls and other conicals fired in rifle muzzleloaderswith black powder.The stuff I used contained MoS2. I believe Lee makes a paint-on lube that works pretty much the same way, but is alox-based rather than containing MoS2. There is also the blue stuff on some of the Barnes X bullets. I don't know what that stuff is.