Wax Bullet Shooting - Anyone else doing/done it?

[SGT ROCK 11B]

Wax bullets is a PITA from the 1960s especially cleaning your revolver later.

I prefer the Speer bullets but honestly I have not loaded them in 25+ years.

 

[THREEDFLYER]

I have had several boxes of the Speer Target .38 and .44 bullets/cases around that a friend gave me many years ago.....still have not given them a try.

 

[BC38]

Bill Jordan said he used waxed bullets to practice his fast draw.

Good enough for Bill is good enough for me!

 

[THREEDFLYER]

I received my order from C&R Wax today including 1,000 .38 caliber wax bullets and 50 .38 Special cases with modified primer pockets to accept #209 primers.

I picked up a pack of 100 RIO #209 primers from my LGS and will give these a try at some point in the next few days and report back.

I also have an order of wax bullets coming from the folks at Fast Draw.

BTW:::: I tried out the .38 caliber SPEER plastic bullet/cases today with a standard small pistol primer and they are extremely light hitting with very minimal velocity at short range. Did not do an accuracy test, just function and will see how they do at short range on paper soon.

Stay tuned......

 

[BC38]

I received my order from C&R Wax today including 1,000 .38 caliber wax bullets and 50 .38 Special cases with modified primer pockets to accept #209 primers.

I picked up a pack of 100 RIO #209 primers from my LGS and will give these a try at some point in the next few days and report back.

I also have an order of wax bullets coming from the folks at Fast Draw.

BTW:::: I tried out the .38 caliber SPEER plastic bullet/cases today with a standard small pistol primer and they are extremely light hitting with very minimal velocity at short range. Did not do an accuracy test, just function and will see how they do at short range on paper soon.

Stay tuned......

I'm really interested to see how hard it is to insert the 209 primers into their modified cases.

I used a 6mm drill bit for the ones I made because I wanted them to fit so tightly they have to be pressed in with my single stage press - so they don't back out and bind up the cylinder.

Let us know how hard they are to insert & how they perform in terms of staying in the cases without backing out when fired.

 

[THREEDFLYER]

I'm really interested to see how hard it is to insert the 209 primers into their modified cases.

I used a 6mm drill bit for the ones I made because I wanted them to fit so tightly they have to be pressed in with my single stage press - so they don't back out and bind up the cylinder.

Let us know how hard they are to insert & how they perform in terms of staying in the cases without backing out when fired.

The cases that I purchased that are modified to take the 209's require NO pressure to insert the primers.....they drop in and drop out freely.

If you use the brands of 209's that are suggested there are NO issues with binding in single action guns or DA/SA guns.

Give this video a watch to the end.....you can see the process clearly.

[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YClXt2gdWrI[/ame]

 

[BC38]

VERY interesting.
I've been using the brick of Cheddite primers I bought for a good price.
I have 50 357 cases I modified, but I may just buy a box of 50 of those C&R cases to give them a try.
Thanks for the info.

 

[THREEDFLYER]

Here is another short wax bullet video for basic info
[ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9KXyipPWsYI[/ame]