Any experience with wax slugs out there?

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I have youtubed some videos of how to do wax slugs but there is a lot of contradicting info.

How would someone get started making wax slugs the cheapest way possible? All I have are challenger target loads and basic tools at the moment

Also has anyone seen a lee loader classic to do shot shell reloading? I know it exists but where can one find a set?
 
Wax bullets generally mean shooting in a large revolver, straight walled case, typically 44 magnum, and the wax bullet is shot by the primer only.
The material for the bullet is paraffin wax that comes in bars, about five to a box.
Prime your 44 magnum cases. Use a couple of short pieces of 1x4 in a machine, or garage type vise that will open up to handle the length of the primed case, pushed up against a bar of wax, with the boards on each side.
This was my way of making bullets from wax and I can't remember if I thought of the method, or someone told me. Once you get the hang of it you can do 5, or maybe ten, at each squeeze of the vise. Of course, you tighten the vise until the case(s) is/are completely through the wax bar, making a full wad cutting load.
Use proper safety precautions in shooting them, because they come out with quite a force. Set up a large cardboard box and the wax bullet will fly through both sides, from a few feet away.
A big advantage is you can do this in your basement.
And please, don't tell me I am not allowed to shoot the wax bullets in my basement!
 
I have entertained the idea of making sone myself but if you start looking online for wax slug failures and misshaps it makes factory produced lead slugs seem worth the extra money.
 
I've done it like Bruce but found it easier to melt the paraffin in a flat pan and but unprimed brass in it upside then pull them when cooled and prime. Used to live in a house in Ontario with an unfinished basement complete with crickets. Excellent practice.
 
I've made them with Winchester target loads and Parafin wax. Didn't have any issues what so ever, and holy hell do they ever do some damage. Had a log upright out in the bush that are targets were propped up against, regular slugs and rifle bullets would either get stuck in it or pass right through, no biggie. The wax slugs blew a softball size hole out of the back and within a couple it was down on the ground
 
I've made them in 38 and 41 mag years ago using the melted wax method. It helps to drill out the flash hole on your brass larger. This keeps the primer from backing out partially and binding up the gun. But mark those brass so they don't get used in normal loads.
 
Neilm said:
I've done it like Bruce but found it easier to melt the paraffin in a flat pan and but unprimed brass in it upside then pull them when cooled and prime. Used to live in a house in Ontario with an unfinished basement complete with crickets. Excellent practice.
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That sounds like a much easier way to do it.
Bruce
 
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