Cheap shooting with wax bullets!!

[flipya]

Appreciate it! I will have to give this a shot - Dang it - you're going to get me into reloading now - - - anybody have a couch I can sleep on when my wife throws me out?

[southy]

Mr0w1, tenacious D. HAHAHAHA. I freakin love it!!! Who ate my schnitzel?

[jkswiss]

Must say, your a pretty good shot. I would have had to do at least 5 takes to get them all, one shot a piece.

[thirdtimesthecharm]

very cool idea, although it seems like more work than its worth for shooting my 9mm, but could u do this with 7.5 swiss and big expensive calibers? and can the brass me used an infinite # of times?

[mr0w1]

Originally Posted by thirdtimesthecharm

very cool idea, although it seems like more work than its worth for shooting my 9mm, but could u do this with 7.5 swiss and big expensive calibers? and can the brass me used an infinite # of times?

Once you've reamed the flash hole out, it takes about 5 minutes to reload 50 shells. After you've done it once, you realize that it really isn't that much work, and I personally think it's well worth it, considering the trigger time I get. I've probably put as much wax through my Kimber as I have lead (because I have very, very little money to spend on ammo). I was never very good with the Kimber, but I expect that when hunting season is over (I don't target practice out of respect for people trying to get a deer), I'll see my groups shrink having never shot an actual powder/lead load.

As I said earlier, I'm gonna experiment with rifles some time this week. Honestly though, I'm not expecting much performance out of the rifles much past 10-20 yards (optimistic?), and at that range, well...you'd never be shooting expensive real 7.5x55 loads at that close of a range. Doesn't seem to me that rifle shooting with wax will provide much more than an amusing source of entertainment.

Some other big expensive calibers I'd definitely recommend doing like this are .44 Mag, .45 LC, .500 Mag, blah blah blah. Big revolver calibers. All of the trigger control and sight alignment practice with your actual gun, none of the noise, kick and expense. Just remember to practice with the real thing sometimes.

Finally, I don't see any reason you couldn't use the brass infinitely. The only things that I see might start to be a problem is if you press the brass into too hard of wax, you might bend the case mouth out of shape and need to resize/reform it in a die, and worn out primer pockets. The increased flash hole puts more pressure on the primer than would normally be with a small hole and gunpowder and thus you're more likely to get primer set-back (the primer starts its way out backwards). Not a problem on autos, maybe a problem on revolvers.

jkswiss: Thanks

flipya: Well, since I'm already getting you in trouble, may I suggest this? It makes things fast, and easy. :P

southy: Oh, wha? You like that how about this? YAH! Eh? That's a karate chop.