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blaZer_2 02-17-2014 11:16 AM

wax slugs...
 
has anyone on here ever herd of them? does anyone make/use them

Wingbone 02-17-2014 01:06 PM

They are homemade contraptions. There's a guy on Youtube that does a howto. What is your intended use?

blaZer_2 02-17-2014 01:20 PM

I just wanderd i didnt think they were very safe

SecondChance 02-19-2014 11:40 AM


Originally Posted by blaZer_2 (Post 4123213)
I just wanderd i didnt think they were very safe

Very safe for what? You only punch it through a block of cooking parrafin and power it with a primer. Where is the danger?

Centaur 1 02-19-2014 12:30 PM

It's not safe to shoot someone, it would sting like hell, but it won't hurt your gun. Works best if you drill out the flash hole with a 1/8" drill bit and mark the brass so it never gets loaded with a bullet. Like secondchance said just push the case through a sheet of wax. If you shoot into a box stacked with newspapers or cardboard, you can collect the wax and remelt it. Pour it out so the wax dries in a sheet and you can reuse it. I never made any wax slugs, but I've used my bullet molds to cast bullets made from hot glue, they're called gluelits. The hot glue bullets are even reusable, I shoot into a box filled with rags and it stops them undamaged. It's just a way to shoot your guns out in the garage if you can't get to the range.

SecondChance 02-23-2014 12:59 PM


Originally Posted by Centaur 1 (Post 4123550)
It's not safe to shoot someone, it would sting like hell, but it won't hurt your gun. Works best if you drill out the flash hole with a 1/8" drill bit and mark the brass so it never gets loaded with a bullet. Like secondchance said just push the case through a sheet of wax. If you shoot into a box stacked with newspapers or cardboard, you can collect the wax and remelt it. Pour it out so the wax dries in a sheet and you can reuse it. I never made any wax slugs, but I've used my bullet molds to cast bullets made from hot glue, they're called gluelits. The hot glue bullets are even reusable, I shoot into a box filled with rags and it stops them undamaged. It's just a way to shoot your guns out in the garage if you can't get to the range.

I used to collect them behind the target with a sheet hung and fell into a box underneath when I practiced my comp. shooting in my basement. Remelted them in a cake pan in the over on lowest setting for just a few minutes to melt it. Put in frig to toughen them up and pop loose from the pan. Wrap in wax paper and keep for the next go round.

Ridge Runner 02-23-2014 02:07 PM

Just get a cap gun
RR

Centaur 1 02-25-2014 06:02 AM


Originally Posted by Ridge Runner (Post 4124303)
Just get a cap gun
RR

It definitely sounded way cooler before I tried them, gets boring real quick.


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