Agreed and understand. I posed the question to everyone on the email list which included the match director. This member was the only one who responded.

One could probably argue easier for plated or jacketed bullets to be allowed based on when they became available. Past the days of the great Buffalo hunts, but still at the tail end of black powder. At least you could argue “of the era” and predating some of the rifles allowed.

Makes more sense than Plastic coating.

why do we spend so much time and effort in finding a way to subvert the rules of a chosen game? I concur with questioning the 'grey' areas of rules and guidelines, but once determined, just go along. Personally, I have shot a lot of stuff that was outside of the sport's norm, but never even considered using the same in a competition.
Well, once. In an egg shooting match with muzzleloaders, where misses required the shooter to eat the raw egg that had been hung on string. I saw no restriction regarding the use of multiple balls (or shot ) and loaded the rifle with the contents of a shot shell wrapped in a patch. Didn't work for whatever reason-dumb luck, failure to spread out as the wrapping still contained the shot, or spread out too much- and I ended up being one of two seen eating a raw egg. No more rule bending for me.

I would think that how well a coated bullet works in a polygon barrel would depend a lot on diameters.  I have played with coated bullets some and in some instances they seem to work just fine.  It does save you messing with sticky lubes and such on your bullets. Some down sides I have run into it is it does increase bullet size including the nose. For me that has been an issue a few times in rifles.  Kind of an unrecognized error if you will. 
As far as BPCR loads go, I don't feel, and this just my opinion, that there is any real advantage. You  would need to have a clean barrel for each shot other wise I would think that you would run the risk of having that coating smear in the barrel and I don't think its all that easy to remove. 
Could there be an upside? I think that there is a small one. I have some bullets that are what I consider a bit too small for PP bullets in a .45. A layer of PC on them brings them up very close to the right size, or at least close enough to give them a try. 
I do wonder if the coating will leave a colored splash on the animals when it hits them? 
Sam

1Hawkeye wrote on Mar 11^th, 2025 at 5:59pm:


Greetings,

I tested some "coated" ammo for some friends. The fumes while firing were obnoxious. 

I read the MSDS sheet and decided no coated bullets for me.

If someone is shooting coated bullets at a Pistol Match, I move to a downwind firing point.

Cheers,

Dave

1Hawkeye wrote on Mar 11^th, 2025 at 5:59pm:

If they are prepared properly the coating should stay on.  I've experimented with them and found no advantage other than not having to lube the bullets.  Have going back to traditional lubing.