Wax bullets as a practice method?

[dangerranger60]

I have shot a lot of wax bullets. It makes good garage practice on a rainy day.
At across the room distance the poi is very close to poa.
I don't think I would shoot them at a mirror. It would likely break the mirror.
The wax would go through both sides of a cardboard box. To catch them I used a towel hanging loosely in the box. It would punch through one side and be caught in the cloth. I put two layers of hanging cloth but I never had one go through the first layer, even after shooting a lot.
Its great practice for point shooting. Its great practice for learning to draw and shoot from a holster. When I moved to pocket carry I practiced a lot from the pocket. My local range would not let me practice there.
I would pour hot parifin in a shallow pie pan till it was about a 1/2" thick and let it harden. Then on a hot day leave it in the sun till it softened, and press primed cases into the wax, wipe any excess off the outside of the case and set then in a cool place to reharden. And they are ready to shoot.
After shooting I take the bullets out of the trap and drop them in the empty holes in your wax cake and remelt. DR

 

[dangerranger60]

One more thing, If you use old candle wax, be prepared to be teased about rose pedal scented bullets! DR

 

[arakboss]

I often ponder the idea of a primer only load. Wax and plastic bullets have been recommended. Bullets made from hot glue sticks, wood dowels, etc. I saw a video where they used 22cal pellets propelled by nail gun blanks. To load the pellet they just pushed it down into the muzzle. Maybe a similiar process could be used with a 223/5.56 AR and a primer only case? Worst case is the pellet will have to be tapped out of the muzzle.

Edit: I think Rem 7.5s might be a good primer to test out this idea.



Source: https://www.6mmbr.com/primerpix.html

 

[arakboss]

some other discussion on different ways to use 22 pellets in 223 rifle.

JKM .223 to .22 pellet conversion

Hey everyone, I just stumbled across a cool website that offers a special re-loadable .223 rem casing designed to fire .22 caliber airgun ammunition using 209 shotgun primers as the propellant. They claim all you do is a pop a primer in, seat the pellet, load-aim-fire, pop out spent primer...

www.thehighroad.org

 

[billdeserthills]

When I was a kid, my Dad drilled out some .38 Special cases, fit shotgun primers in them & pushed them through a few blocks of paraffin wax. I can't say if they worked or not...

 

[Member 34319]

At 10 cents a primer, these days, this sort of thing loses the frugalness it once had.

I'd be tempted to try a nice air soft over this sort of thing.

 

[gtivan]

At the begining of COVID i came across some plastic bullets for 38 and 44. Even had plastic cases as well. My buddy was cleaning his stuff out and gave em to me along with a bunch of old primers from 50's - 80's. Our deal was i sell the primers and split 50/50. So i sold half the primers and gave all the cash to him and saved the rest of the primers.

We tried the plastic bullets in a RV bay in a shop. Hit the wall 30 feet away and came back and hit the wall behind us as well. I would hesitate to try them on glass.

I gave 500 primers from the 50's to my niece, a bunch of plastic bullets, along with a M&P revolver from her grandpa and told her to practice safely.