Shooting Indoors

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Winter is just around the corner. I was watching this and I think it's a GREAT
way to shoot indoors. You can even shoot your Uberti 45 Colt. The balls are
made of rosen. I'm trying to find a source asap. Catchy tune also.

http://www.youtube.com:80/watch?v=6qZBVkmTpiQ&feature=player_embedded

 

[DrLaw]

I used to be able to shoot in my house, too.

But I was only a kid then in the early 1960's shooting my Parris "Muzzle-loading" cork ball firing cap pistol.

The Doc is out now.

 

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This is what I shot inside when I was a kid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hR9ojNddiSI

 

[Rail Driver]

What's the last thing he shot? It looked like it could be used in a .38sp (or maybe .45? not sure what caliber that ball was) Now I want to buy a revolver lol I can see me loading a ton of brass primer only and casting wax bullets to shoot inside...

 

[zimmerstutzen]

Back around 1977 there was a big announcement in the American Rifleman about nylon bullets that could be fired from cartridges using just primers. About two years later adapters came out to use 209 primers in place of percussion nipples on side locks. Seems like Pedersoli picked up on those OLD ideas.

 

[Oyeboten]

Very nice conversions for indoor!


When I was a teenager, I used to shoot a lot in our Basement using Wax Balls and just a Percussion Cap with the early re-pop 1851 Colt 'Navy' we had.


Pretty quiet, dead-straight trajectory over indoor distances too...punches through Paper Targets just fine.


I can't remember how I made the Wax Balls, but I know I made them.


I think I just used the regular el-cheapo Bullet Mold we had, but greased it a little so the Wax would not stick.


Far easier though to use an old Cartridge Case with the base cut off, and just make cylindrical Bullets by pressing it through a 3/8ths or 1/2 inch thick Sheet of slightly warm Wax.



Lord knows, shooting full power/load Black Powder indoors, in Winter, would sure be memorable!


Lol...

 

[SteveInColorado]

I used to shoot wax bullets with cartridge rounds, think I got it out of an American Rifleman digest. I just poured melted paraffin in a tray with waxpaper under it, and poked the primed case straight into it, forming a bullet in the neck of the case. I have this nagging in the back of my head that there was one more component in the mix, but can't remember what it was IF it existed. It was good for 15-20 feet, and no worries about collateral damage.

 

[HUnter58]

I've used wax bullets from both of these folks with good results for my SAA.

http://www.waxbullet.com/

http://www.gunfighter.com/waxbullets/

 

[Jim Watson]

What kind of rosin ball was Pedersoli using that had to be hammered into the barrel?
Could not be good for accuracy even at gallery ranges.

There have been a lot of wax and plastic bullets shot over the years.

The Gastinne Renette Galleries in Paris even had wax ball dueling in the 1890s. The guns were breechloaders but styled like an earlier French dueling pistol. The cartridges were like the ones in the revolver demo by Pedersoli, solid except for a recess for the ball.
The duelists wore fencing masks and jackets, kind of a predecessor to paint ball.

 

[DrLaw]

Wax. How could I forget?

When I was in college, I used wax bullets molded from a Dixie Mold in a Wells Fargo .31, to be able to shoot indoors.

Man, I forgot completely about that until somebody else mentioned wax here!

The Doc is out now.

 

[4v50 Gary]

Bill Jordan mentioned wax bullets in his book, No Second Place Winner. Still, it's nice to see a nipple adapted to take a shotgun primer (?).

 

[zimmerstutzen]

those shotgun prmer nipple adapters were on the market back in the late 1970's. I haven't seen one since around 1983.

 

[W.E.G.]

http://www.midwayusa.com/viewproduct/?productnumber=489581

 

[Tomahawk674]

wax isn't entirely harmless

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=orO3PxLPiKU

 

[DrLaw]

Well, that one fellow has the whole Nutty Professor look going there. Notice that he did not stammer or flinch when he said that you had to have a license to shoot a black powder gun?

How far the English have fallen.

On the other hand, if you don't have Rock Salt available for your shotgun, just chuck a candle down the barrel.

The Doc is out now.

 

[robhof]

robhof

I've got several boxes of the 38 plastic shells and bullets that I got on Ebay, before they became anti-gun. In my 357mag pistol with an 8" barrel they've taken squirrel, rabbits and collared doves out to 10 yds. Mine are made by speer and the shells usually can only be reloaded(hand push in primer) about 10 times before they split or won't hold the primer in place. The bullet part can be loaded until they become badly deformed from striking a hard surface, like cement blocks.