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Posted: 8/19/2015 2:08:36 PM EDT
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do any of you load and fire wax bullets?
just curious what your loads are... |
| The parrafin wax blocks for canning work good. Primer only and I pushed down and cut one load. From my 10mm at 15ft it went thru 2 layers of cardboard box. Yrs ago and dont remember how accurate. A little wax left in the barrel, no big deal 1911 barrels are easy to clean. |
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You have to drill the flasholes out and leave a small amount of the bottom of the PP for the primer to seat against. If you don't drill out the flasholes the primers will back out and tie up a revolvers cylinder. Cases thus drilled cannot be used for normal loads. Primer powers the wax bullet. No powder needed. Standard or mag primers can be used. I always used the primers I deprimmed from other loads first. Melt any kind of wax/candle in a flat bottomed pan, go for 3/8 to 1/2 inch layer of wax. Wait for wax to cool and insert deprimmed cases and twist. If temp is right the wax stays in case. If it doesn't, wax is too hot. Let it cool some more. Don't push wax down, let it stay as it comes out of the pan. If wax is too cool, it will be obvious.  After cases have wax bullets, then prime. If you prime first, the wax bullets will pop out because the air has no place to vent out of the case. When fired, sounds like a loud cap gun. Accurate to 15 feet or so and will go through a layer of cardboard. Take a box and put a piece of rug in the bottom to catch bullets. Paper target should cover the front part of the box. Great for shooting in the garage, just remember primers contain lead. |
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I have done it for kicks. As mentioned, primer only. Those who make a habit of it drill the flash hole of the cases they earmark for this purpose a bit wider. Consider the plastic reusable bullets from speer which are also loaded primer only. Shotgun primers, remington or rios only, in revolvers. |
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I had some 38 special brass that was reamed out to take shotgun primers. I had a couple of boxes of "wax bullets" The was in the '80s. Seems overkill, a standard primer will launch a wax or even a bullet cast from hot glue through a cardboard target. Make sure you wear eye protection for hot glue bullets, they can bounce around a bit. |
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Quoted: Seems overkill, a standard primer will launch a wax or even a bullet cast from hot glue through a cardboard target. Make sure you wear eye protection for hot glue bullets, they can bounce around a bit. Quoted: Quoted: I had some 38 special brass that was reamed out to take shotgun primers. I had a couple of boxes of "wax bullets" The was in the '80s. Seems overkill, a standard primer will launch a wax or even a bullet cast from hot glue through a cardboard target. Make sure you wear eye protection for hot glue bullets, they can bounce around a bit. Yep. I use hot glue bullets in the 45 ACP small primer cases I get. Just a primer will put one into a pop can and through cardboard.    |
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I had some 38 special brass that was reamed out to take shotgun primers. I had a couple of boxes of "wax bullets" The was in the '80s. While it may seem like overkill. The object was that you didn't need tools to de-prime or prime the brass. The shotgun primers could be loaded with your fingers. If I am remembering this correctly, I got a couple of boxes of 500 bullets in 38 cal with the modified brass and I just had to buy some shot gun primers. We could shoot in the backyard and not have to make trips inside to reload. I thought of it more as convenient instead of overkill. Now, I use a laser target. |
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I use the hot glue bullets in a .45 acp Para semi-auto. Primers only, unmodified cases. Of course, hand cycling.
Awesome fun shooting rats in the barn. Yes they are lethal to rats. Head shots at 20' will literally blow their brains out. Beware of bounce back though. Found this to be an excellent use for those aluminum blazer cases. The bullets can be reused many times. Zero recoil, and quieter than a cap gun. Silly quiet. |
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Quoted: I use the hot glue bullets in a .45 acp Para semi-auto. Primers only, unmodified cases. Of course, hand cycling. Awesome fun shooting rats in the barn. Yes they are lethal to rats. Head shots at 20' will literally blow their brains out. Beware of bounce back though. Found this to be an excellent use for those aluminum blazer cases. The bullets can be reused many times. Zero recoil, and quieter than a cap gun. Silly quiet. How do you form the bullets? Lead bullet mold? |
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I use the hot glue bullets in a .45 acp Para semi-auto. Primers only, unmodified cases. Of course, hand cycling. Awesome fun shooting rats in the barn. Yes they are lethal to rats. Head shots at 20' will literally blow their brains out. Beware of bounce back though. Found this to be an excellent use for those aluminum blazer cases. The bullets can be reused many times. Zero recoil, and quieter than a cap gun. Silly quiet. Really? I made the mistake of shooting off a primer in a muzzle loader to see how loud a primer was. It was so loud my ears rang. I guess the "bullet" contains the sound. |
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I use the hot glue bullets in a .45 acp Para semi-auto. Primers only, unmodified cases. Of course, hand cycling. Awesome fun shooting rats in the barn. Yes they are lethal to rats. Head shots at 20' will literally blow their brains out. Beware of bounce back though. Found this to be an excellent use for those aluminum blazer cases. The bullets can be reused many times. Zero recoil, and quieter than a cap gun. Silly quiet. How do you form the bullets? Lead bullet mold? I don't know how he does it, but I use a spare lead bullet mold. Spray the mold halves with non stick cooking spray then inject the cavities with the hot glue. Took me a few tries to get a properly filled out bullet. I also leave the sprue open and just trim off the excess with scissors, if I over fill the cavety. I didn't have any luck trying to fill the mold with the sprue. Time consuming, but fun when done! |
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