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I recently came across some red plastic bullets in an old looking box in .38 caliber. aparently what you do is load one into a 38 case with no powder just a primer and then shoot them for indoor "basement" practice it says the shoot at 850fps

have any of you ever heard of such a thing if so have you ever used them and are they collectable if i can get a picture on here i will but the box is not at my house and my camera is :cuss::banghead:
 
I have some .22 shells loaded with only primer but its a 20 grain bullet and they shoot at 500fps but never heard of what you talking about.

Ricky
 
You have the 38 bullets? Well I have a box of the 38 plastic cartridge cases that goes with them. Made by Speer.

They are designed to be fired by a CCI #350 large pistol magunum primer with no powder.

I also have a box of .45 target plastic bullets. They are kind of neat. I got them in a box of reloading stuff.
 
yeah same here my grandfather is a/was a reloader/packrat
and he gave me all his realoading stuff and that was in the mix along with other neat stuff
 
I have a partial set of them in .38 so I don't know if there are other sets.
All you have to do is put a large pistol primer in them and they shoot out the projectile when fired.
I don't know anything about the collectability but it is a fun toy if you can set up a target on your property, I used them in my basement.
 
I've got 2 boxes of the .38's, complete cases and bullets. The case is red plastic and the bullets are black, made by Speer. I think they produced these in the 60's. They are pretty fun to shoot, just make sure you wear hearing and eye protection. I know from personal experience that they will punch a good sized dent into drywall!
Back of the box reads: "Target-38's are designed to be fired by a large pistol primer only! They produce velocities in excess of 500 FPS and can cause bodily harm up to 75 feet. Use of powder is not recommended for indoor shooting because of increased velocity. The same weapon handling precautions should be exercised as with loaded ammunition."
I've also got a few of the .45's around, but they are just the black plastic bullet that you can load in a regular case. I used to shoot them at cardboard boxes full of newspaper in the basement when the weather got to cold to go to the range.
Might be a collector's item nowadays.....

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These things have been around quite a while. I have a box of .38 caliber rubber bullets that are propelled by primer only, also an barrel and shell adapter to shoot .17 caliber pellets out of my Model 14. The cartridges for the rubber bullets have to have the primer flash hole enlarged so the shells have to be marked to prevent them from being mixed in with the the regular brass.
 
its not like those i wish i had a picture for you to see but theses look just like lead wadcutters except they are red and plastic but you load then into regular brass 38spl 357 mag 9mm 38super or any other 38 caliber revolver brass cases put you load them with magnum primers and no powederi think they are called redjet and there not made my speer.
 
Interesting. Do (did) plastic bullets like these perform differently from wax bullets? It seems that they would offer easier cleanup, but be more likely to cause injury or damage and be much more expensive.
 
Be careful! Early in LE career, I bought a box of the primer powered Speers. After getting off the midnight shift, my wife was off to work, the kids were in school, and I wasn't tired. I loaded up my service revolver with the plastic cartridges powered only by a primer, pinned a target onto heavy drapes in a second floor bedroom, backed off down a long hallway, and across the master bedroom and stood up against the outside wall. Clear shot at the target, about 60 feet. Fired one round, aand heard the tinkle of falling glass.
Ran to look. Plastic projectile went through the target, through the heavy drapery, through a double pained window glass and bounced off the storm window. I spent the rest of the day getting the window repaired. Did own up to it though. Didn't do it again.
 
Haven't heard of the "redjet" version, but have been shooting the Speer version for what seems like forever. My pop also used to do the parrifin wax bullets as well.

Those Speer bullets will go through more than you think and will also dispatch small vermin at close range with realitive reliability. I have used them on several problem attic squirrels over the years from both my .357 and .44 mag. They really get in gear with a grain or two of Unique behind them for bigger critters.

They can be a lot of fun for teaching younger shooters the basics as well without having to spend much on ammo or range fee's.
 
It's worth mentioning that lots of primers have lead in them. Might been better to do it in a well-ventilated garage or outdoors. You can also make wax bullets if you want.
 
If you're talking about wax bullets, then yes, absolutely. I used to cast wax in a .357 158gr SWC mould and use the resulting bullets in .38, .357 and 9mm

Or you can do it the easy way and push the case-mouths into semi-warm wax.
 
Plastic Training Bullets

Happy New Year gunners!

Speer lists Plastic Training rounds. I used them back in the 70s. Anyone know where I can buy them now?

AAW
 
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