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  • rayg
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2009
    • 7444

    #1

    Stuck inside and miss shooting, try this ..

    Not sure if anyone mentioned this before but here is what I used to do when it was too cold to go out side and shoot!. You can use it with revolver or autos. Of course single shot.

    I made bullets out of wax that was fired just by a primer. And shot it the basement. Easy to make, and actually you don't need any reloading equipment just primers.

    Use a nail and a block with a hole drilled in just smaller then the rim of the case and put the case over the hole mouth up and punch out the fired primer with a small nail that fits in the primer hole. Clean out the primer hole. Then lay a primer on a wood block and align it over the empty primer hole and tap the mouth of the case with a block of wood to insert the primer. Keep face away of the open case while doing so. Take primed case, insert the mouth of it into a block of soft wax and push the case in a bit to obtain a wax bullet...If I remember, it was accurate up to about 10 yrs or so..Make sure to back the target up as the wax bullet does penetrate a bit..Lots of fun...Ray
    Last edited by rayg; 03-31-2020, 12:07.
  • S.A. Boggs
    Senior Member
    • Aug 2009
    • 8578

    #2
    On my indoor pistol range I use CO2 and can shoot from 70' to mere inches. I have a pistol that mimics my P220 including slide recoil. Best of all the pellets are reusable and I save back the spent CO2 case as swinging targets as well.
    Sam

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    • lyman
      Administrator - OFC
      • Aug 2009
      • 11294

      #3
      friend used to do that for fast draw practice,


      primer in a shell, paraffin wax disc, and small target across the room,


      it was a bit messy, and he just used an older C press and universal decapper die,

      the reprimed with a hand primer

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      • Dan in NH
        Senior Member
        • Sep 2009
        • 109

        #4
        I have some plastic bullets that press into a case by hand and are fired by a primer only. They are reusable and will penetrate cardboard from across the basement.

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