Practice case (pistol) using shotgun primer

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
I only load 2 types of hulls. Started out with nothing bit Win AA but have switched “mostly” over to REM GunClub. Yeah, they’re steel hulls but I think they load better than the Win hulls. I get all I want for free by picking through the trash at the sporting clays club I shoot at, load them 2 or 3 times and then dump them. I like the crimp better on the Rem hulls. I’ll use the REM Nitro and Premiere too if I find them. They can all be loaded without changing the press so they go in the empties box together.
 

jnjproto

New Member
For practice bullets we used to decap the cases, pour parrafin wax in a pan about 3/8 ths deep, then push the case in like a cookie cutter, and then prime them. The walls of Bill Jorden's garage were just about solid wax from what i've been told. Good cheap practice.
 

L Ross

Well-Known Member
For practice bullets we used to decap the cases, pour parrafin wax in a pan about 3/8 ths deep, then push the case in like a cookie cutter, and then prime them. The walls of Bill Jorden's garage were just about solid wax from what i've been told. Good cheap practice.
I was reading your post and appreciated the good cheap practice comment. Right up until I thought about what people are paying for primers today.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
yeah,,,,, but.
your really only one step away from nothing at that point.
you can't possibly use any fewer components and one of them is easily recyclable.
 

BBerguson

Official Pennsyltuckian
I was reading your post and appreciated the good cheap practice comment. Right up until I thought about what people are paying for primers today.
This is why I’m using shotgun primers, I have a couple of thousand I’ll never miss.
 

Snakeoil

Well-Known Member
I have a hand tool at home that I bought at a gun show to use as a deprimer for BPCR cases. I used to to deprime at the match and drop the cases into my jug of soapy water. The tool is actually a loading tool made by a company that produced plastic bullets for indoor practice. I cannot remember the name (damn gray hair) but it did everything, deprimed, primed and seated the plastic bullet.

I did a search for plastic bullet kits and such and looked at images and found nothing. I suspect they did not work very well and were a short lived product. When I go home to mow, if I think of it, I'll get the name off the tool.

As a side note, a late friend of mine was World Champ Quick Draw artist more than once back in the 60's. He practiced with and they use wax bullets in events. I thought that he just used a primer in the case. But did some research and see that the rulebook for one of the organizations doing this uses BP or BP substitute Hodgdon 777.
 
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358156 hp

At large, whereabouts unknown.
Ever seen one of these?
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A 1960's era Pacific Model 60 Wax Bullet loading kit. Produced at the request of an unnamed Federal Agency. This one is for 38 Spl, and also has the spacer for 357 magnum cases. Mine is missing two small accessory pieces, but is otherwise complete.
 

fiver

Well-Known Member
Speer done the plastic bullets, and so did Bull-X airc.
IIRC herters also had a thingy of them, but I'd imagine they were repackaged someone else's.

I remember there being a hard rubber bullet someone made too.
 

Brad

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Trust me, you don’t need more than that. Ian might but you don’t.