Make sure the powder coat you’re using does not contain Teflon. Here is the Wikipedia info on it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teflon-coated_bullet Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) is a synthetic fluoropolymer of tetrafluoroethylene that has numerous applications. The best known brand name of PTFE-based formulas is Teflon by Chemours.[2] Chemours is a spin-off of DuPont Co.,[3] which discovered the compound in 1938.[2] PTFE is a fluorocarbon