Shot parafin bullets last weekend.

[miko]

This time out of my H&K P2000 .40 cal.

The "bullets" (1/2 - 9/16 inch or parafine) measured at a bit over [edit]300[/edit] fps (not using magnum primers).

miko

 

[Odd Job]

measured at a bit over 3000 fps

 

[Third_Rail]

That seems a bit higher than they should be going... perhaps the gas was measured by the chrono instead of the projectile?

 

[.38 Special]

3000 fps? Bah. Try the X-ring rubber bullets. They're good for 6000 fps. And I've got some old Speer plastic bullets with cases. They top 15,000 fps without any primer at all. I think it's the air pressure created by the firing pin as it approaches the primer pocket.

If you look closely at tonight's moon you'll see a number of small craters. Those are hits with the Speer bullets.

Yeah. Speer bullets. That's the ticket.

 

[plexreticle]

3000 fps

 

[carpettbaggerr]

3000fps is mighty fine for para-fine.

Sure you didn't tack on an extra 0?

 

[vesmcd]

+1 for the Speer plastic, they will also penetrate the berylium trauma plates on the super secret Level 13 body armor.

 

[JMACDONALD]

My Illudium Pu-36 explosive space modulator gets a pulsar beam appx. 13 times the speed of light. Wonder how fast Bill Jordan (RIP) got his parafine bullets to go out of his k frames?

 

[SSN Vet]

+1 for the Illudium P-36 space modulator

after all....it has an earth shattering Kaboom!

 

[srtboise]

it's great for removing anything that obstructs your view of venus...

steve

 

[crawfish]

Hot dog I shoot wax in my .41RemMag and don't get anywhere near 3K. Tell me your secret!!! I'll give up loading 250g cast and just use wax at many Ks to shoot everything.

 

[El Tejon]

300 maybe?

I remember shooting wax bullets in my father's basement as a kid. I could see the projectile's flight. Ahhh, memories *El Tejons sings* something, something . . . memories la da da la da daaaahhhh.

 

[scott5]

Hey all,
Quit giving miko a hard time! If you don't believe him here is a picture of it landing:
http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/139983main_impact_1600x1200.jpg

So there

So miko, how fun was your shooting of the parafine, and what did you shoot at?

 

[CSA 357]

how much 2400 did you use?

 

[ceetee]

it's great for removing anything that obstructs your view of venus...

Don't you mean "Uranus" ?

 

[.38 Special]

"Shot a pair of fine bullets at 3000 fps."?

 

[vesmcd]

OK guys, we all know he meant 300fps. My question is how did you get the cases to feed? Hand feed one at a time? Clean up must be a pain. I shoot plastic bullets and the primer makes a big mess so the parafin must really gum things up.

 

[miko]

Right, it was about 315fps - extra zero crept in.

P2000 semi-auto I had to feed singly - pull the slide, insert the round, release the slide. Alledgedely there are some semi-autos that would feed empty cases from a magazine but I can't tell you which ones.

I made a bunch of wax rounds for P2000 but mostly I use them for my revolvers. Then it's a lot more fun.

The barrel looked really filthy after shooting but pushing through a patch stuffed tightly with a paper towel wad (I was in a hurry) a few times restored the barrel to mirror-like shine. Of course P2000 barels are hexagonal - several flat spiraling surfaces instead of regular rifling - and must be easier to clean this way.
But I do not have much problem cleaning my revolvers either. There is a lot of fouling but it is pretty loose.

miko

 

[XDKingslayer]

P2000

P2000 or P200?

 

[El Tejon]

miko, we knew it was a typo, but you know we have to raz you.