Method of treating and producing improved ammunition

The method of making an ammunition round comprising an elongate tubular metal casing with an open front end and a closed rear end, an elongate metallic bullet with a rear end engaged and held in the front end of the casing and a forward portion projecting forwardly from the casing and a lubricous protective jacket structure about the forward portion of the bullet and continuing rearwardly about the forward portion of the casing to seal about and between the bullet and casing, said jacket comprising an inner layer of soft, viscous plastic lubricous material and a thin outer skin of hard, dry, frangible material, said method comprising;

• first, assembling the casing, and bullet;
• second, heating a volume of a mixture of normally non-fluid, plastic, viscous, hydrogentated vegetable oil and a normally hard, dry, brittle carnuba wax to a liquid state;
• third, arranging the assembly with its longitudinal axis vertically disposed and the bullet disposed downwardly;
• fourth, lowering the assembly to submerge the bullet and the front end of the casing into the heated liquid mixture;
• fifth, elevating and extracting the assembly from the heated liquid mixture with a layer of said mixture deposited thereon;
• and sixth, permitting the heated assembly to cool whereby the wax at and adjacent to the surface of the deposit first cools and hardens and establishes the hard, dry, frangible skin of the jacket about the remainder of the deposit and said remainder of the deposit next solidifies to establish the inner layer of the jacket.