ArchAngelCD
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I'm just too lazy to do all that work. I bought those Speer shot capsules in both .38 Special and .45 Colt and called it good. I use lead #9 shot in both along with W231 as a powder...
I'm just too lazy to do all that work. I bought those Speer shot capsules in both .38 Special and .45 Colt and called it good. I use lead #9 shot in both along with W231 as a powder...
I bought one of those plastic boxes of 10 to keep in my patrol car for those pesky no legged varmints we get called about at times. I have 9 of them left.
I 'spect I am getting my money's worth. I guess if you shoot a lot of them, or just like rolling your own, it's all good. I just don't need that many of them
I don't need many either but they do cost ~$12/10 rounds. I'm alreadt set up to reload for the .38 Special so buying a box of 50 shot capsules to load .38 shotshells sounded like the thing to do. I'll probably not need to buy more.I bought one of those plastic boxes of 10 to keep in my patrol car for those pesky no legged varmints we get called about at times. I have 9 of them left.
I 'spect I am getting my money's worth. I guess if you shoot a lot of them, or just like rolling your own, it's all good. I just don't need that many of them
I don't need many either but they do cost ~$12/10 rounds. I'm alreadt set up to reload for the .38 Special so buying a box of 50 shot capsules to load .38 shotshells sounded like the thing to do. I'll probably not need to buy more.
I have been experimenting with these also. I ground off the rim on a nickeled case 38, drilled out the primer hole a bit and chucked it in a drill.The primer hole enlargement is to stick a nail or something to push out the accumulated wads. I sharpened up the leading edge a bit too. I then cut out some thin but tough cardboard wads. The recipe I found said to use 3 grains of Bullseye, put in a wad with the eraser end of wooden pencil. Then put in your shot, the smallest I had was #8, within a little bit of the top and then put in two wads in the top. You can then run a crimp, or just Elmer's glue, wax or whatever the top. Seems to work alright, but it will put some lead in your barrel. Apparently, some guys go to the trouble of putting some liquid Alox on their shot to help with leading. Anyhow, kinda fun to play with.
What I used was the cardboard that some Feibing's Saddle Soap came in, another time I remember I picked up the box that a Lee turret came in. Some guys reportedly use the styrofoam food container stuff, apparently a lot easier to cut, but using the drill, the cardboard cuts easily enough. I shot these out of a Mod 60 snub, and they're pretty wicked out to about 10 feet or so, much farther and the shot spreads fast. I need some littler shot, but smaller than #8 is hard to get, without buying a 25 lb. sack.