Wax Bullets. .45 Colt?

[.38 Special]

because the glue bullets are reuseable wax bullets are not really

Two-and-a-half cents per round for premade wax sounds like a bargain to me. Maybe I'm one of them rich city folk.

it all about recycling...it is for the children....

I personally have no problem with using hot glue bullets on children, but you should check your local laws first.

HTH!

 

[favander]

Well..

This thread has been looked at for a while... Thought I would update it with my limited knowledge..

I shoot .44 size glue stick bullets out of my .45 acp with no problems at all.

In fact the glue bullets seem to clean the rifling of old fouling that wasn't removed from earlier cleanings... IMHO

Anyway.. I cut the glue stick (bought at Wally World in crafts) to .55 in that way they stick out about 1/8" beyond the case opening... you can later shave the edges a little to help feeding.. but do crimp the casing a little to tighten the hold on the glue stick bullet... IT will be hard to pull out but still can ... so it is tight enough to build pressure from the primer... REMEMBER NO powder... just the Primer will do fine... I have used Large Pistol Primers and Rifle primers with no problem... have drilled the flash hold to 1/8th in. on some.. but still works fine with standard non-drilled brass.

Go play... they are really fairly accuarate to about 25 yrds.. and very quiet..

A friend loaded his 45-70 with some... don't have the length for the bullet and also I know of another who shoots .45 LC doing the same..

The .44 dia glue sticks work really good... as mentioned good fit for .45 cal brass.

Happy shooting...

 

[Savvy Jack]

so what do you have to do to get the case drilled for shotgun primers?

 

[FROGO207]

It takes two steps and a drill press works best as it ends up with square holes. I forget the sizes of the drills you can measure a 209 primer to get them. step 1 is get a hole in brass that primer will slide in with slight resistance, a nail or pen will push used one out with slight pressure. step 2 is use a drill slightly larger than bell of flash hole and drill out so the primer will slide just below flush on case head. With a drill press once you have figured out the depths lock the depth to drill and go at it for the whole batch. I will try to find my notes as to the drill sizes but they were available at the local hardware store. Made them years ago and the first 50 never wore out.

BTW might take a nail and pop a primer out of a used shotshell hull then try sliding in drills until the ones that work are found.