Wax Bullets

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Im making a wax bullet right now!
I alredy drilled out the flash hole and melted the wax into a small pan so its a little over 1/2" deep.
Im waiting for it to cool so i can press the case into it, Im using a .38 case with a cci magnum primer (all I have).
I dont see how it could hurt me or the gun but im still kinda chicken.
I let yous know what happens.
 
The hot glue bullets are kind of a neat take on the old idea. I wonder if revolver shooters could just squirt the glue right into the case...

Of course a reminder: primers make lead contamination, shooting inside your house is probably unwise
 
OK I shot it, wasnt very loud and shot to poa.
shot at 10' into a stack of magazines,
didnt make a big mess but their was some black crap left in the barrel.
Primer didnt push back at all.
I makin another one :)
 
Whatever you do,make sure you still show respect for the wax bullet. I shot some out of my .38 spl and they went through both sides of an empty cardboard box.I would venture to say at close range they would break the skin.
 
so any more word on how they load in an autoloader?

I presume you just rack the slide to eject the shell and load the new one... but given there is no nose on the bullet I wonder if they will feed...
 
I wouldn't recommend them for auto-loaders.

They almost certainly won't feed out of the magazine and slip up under the extractor hook like a normal round.

And it's very hard on the extractor in a lot of guns to drop them in the chamber and force the extractor to snap over the rims.

rcmodel
 
RANGE REPORT: HOT GLUE AUTOLOADER

You guys are a bad influence on me. I would have NEVER done anything like this before you "shudder" reloaders corrupted me...

The load:
45 ACP
Winchester brass
WLP primer
no powder
hot glue stick.

The hot glue stick microed at .447 - pretty close to .451
I primed the case, cut a chunk of stick .66 long (same as my cast stuff)
it went in the case really nice, just tight.
It was crimped using the Lee FCD. Made a good tight fit.
Loaded it in the magazine
Loaded the magazine into the gun.
Put on my safety glasses.
Range 10'
Target - two cardboard boxes, one inside the other.
Slingshot the slide. Loaded flawlessly into my COLT GOVERNMENT SS 5"
BANG!
The dog ran upstairs to hide, the wife downstairs (to see if I had finally killed myself.)
The round went through both layers of cardboard, bounced off the wall and landed at my feet. (Wall is sheeted with plywood)

YEEEEEEEEHAWWWWWW....

I did the slingshot, and the next round loaded flawlessly as well. Wife made me stop. She just cannot accept the fact that I was enjoying myself.

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Wife made me stop. She just cannot accept the fact that I was enjoying myself.


Best (and most honest) line I have heard in a long time:D
 
Some autumn night, we are going to have to get all of us together and camp out somewhere and tell our tales in front of a warm fire ring and a cold growler of brew. In my short 57 years, I have had too many narrow escapes from the Darwin Awards short list. Life was intended to be lived, not just endured.
 
The wife made me stop when she found out the wax bullet penetrated 2 layers of cardboard, both sides of a rubbermaid trashcan, and dented a metal door scraping off the paint in the process.

Our ideas of fun were very different.
 
When I was a teenager I use to take a pair of pliers and pull the bullet off of 22 LR and then without spilling the powder I would shove them into a large candle. I would then load them into my revolver. They made great indoor target loads.
 
I have made the hot glue bullets, but did it differently. Take one of the super-hot glue guns with super-hot glue sticks. This might sound scarry but works. Take your bullet mold and squeeze the hot glue into the mold. It will not glue it together, and will readily come out. If you want to get real inventive, put some graphite on it and it will look like the real thing. I used a gas-check mold, and put a gas-check on the glue-bullet, and put it over about 2.0 grains of bullseye. It shot into a phone book about 2+ inches.
 
ok now im gona have to try somin, reload my own primers and use them with wax bullets, ill be shooting for nothin!! no cost nearly
 
They Aren't AirSoft

Be very careful with them. I used to punch 44 mag cases on paraffin blocks and prime afterwards with Magnum primers (flash holes drilled out - don't recall size, but larger than standard hole for sure). From my back porch I shot a weathered shed and the wax slug dented it about 1/8" deep from about 30-40 feet. It smacked the crap out of a stray cur that was hanging around & growling & sent him packing. Lots of strays out in the woods of Georgia, dropped off by lazy a-holes who didn't want to care for them or take them to humane society, and I used wax bullets to help them keep moving without killing them. But I will add, drill the cases - my Ruger SBH locked up tighter'n Dick's Hat Band and I thought I was going to have to take it to a smith. Finally removed the center pin and disassembled it, but it was a pain... :cuss:
 
I can tell everybody is wondering what would happen if one were to be shot with a wax projectile. Back in the day when the Hogan's Alley training began to flourish, some buddies and I decided we wanted to up the ante a little and use live BGs. Since I was the only reloader I was tasked with figuring something out. To make a long story short, I made up some .38 spls with whatever size the blocks of parrafin are, 1/2" ?? and had the wife plug me with one from across the room. I don't know about the other calibers and LP mag primers you others are using but the .38 came nowhere close to penetrating anything so I felt brave/stupid enough to give it a try. Funny though, now that I recall, my now ex-wife never batted an eye at the opportunity.

We never made it to Hogan's Alley with these things for shooting each other. Gentlemen, they HURT!!!!! Starts out as a little sting and the welt starts raising and the pain starts radiating. A lot like a bee sting. They were surprisingly accurate, however.
 
We used to have "wax wars" in the days before paintball.

We used .22's with the projectile pulled, but keeping the full powder charge.

Projectiles were birthday candles stuffed into the case and cut off so they didnt protrude thru the cylinder.

They DID hurt!

The favorite pistol was a 9 shot break open H&R.
 
We used to have "wax wars" in the days before paintball.

We used .22's with the projectile pulled, but keeping the full powder charge.

Projectiles were birthday candles stuffed into the case and cut off so they didnt protrude thru the cylinder.

They DID hurt!

The favorite pistol was a 9 shot break open H&R.
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Oh no...

I have some old B-day candles in the cupboard.

I'll go get my .22's. :D

Justin
 
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