12 G Training rounds/snap cap/dummy rounds.
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Google dummy ammo canada.
Got some from there. Good quality.
Got some from there. Good quality.
Just a quick update. Ordered a dozen from DS Tactical and very happy with them. With taxes and shipping ($6.00) it worked out to be $2.00 per round. Only took a total of 5 days from order to on my desk In NS from BC. They seem to be great quality and are easily distinguished as dummy ammo. They are a little light compared to actual rounds but are hollow so I am going to try putting something inside for some extra weight.
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I had some dummy rounds made up from a fellow nutter.They were reloaded with 1 1/4 ounce of buck with a spent primer and no powder.
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Using real rounds with fired primers is about the dumbest thing you can do for home dry fire practice. Ice known far too many people who've screwed up and toasted Tv's, water tanks, windows, a couple pets, nearly a wife, some doors, and so on. Using the ones from DS Tactical or similar are the only way to go.
I hope that was an exaggeration to get your point across, otherwise you know some pretty unsafe people!!
It isn't difficult to source shotgun hulls that do not resemble ammo you shoot.
With the variety of colours and hi vs low brass, smooth vs ribbed, you can get someone who reloads to put together a box of shells for you without primer/powder.
Winchester AA is typically red. if that is what you shoot, get some green Remington hulls and you have a clearly distinguishable dummy round
Green is safe, red is danger!!!!
At the end of the day, people should have the awareness to know what they are handling (live vs dummy rounds) and act accordingly...i.e. not shoot their water tank or pets.
If they lack that ability, maybe they should look into a different sport?
Just my $.01
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- Halifax - NS
Got some of the stuff from dummy ammo Canada last year.
Quick, painless order and delivery. Used primers, pellets inside. All white.
I've never used white shells for real ammo, so that's good.
Not bad at all for practice, but I do notice that I'm wearing the crimp out as they get used.
The trade off for having lead inside, I guess. That's the end of the dummy shell that hits the floor all the time.
Quick, painless order and delivery. Used primers, pellets inside. All white.
I've never used white shells for real ammo, so that's good.
Not bad at all for practice, but I do notice that I'm wearing the crimp out as they get used.
The trade off for having lead inside, I guess. That's the end of the dummy shell that hits the floor all the time.
No, not exaggerating. Some of them have been my own students, some of them have been friends, or friends of friends. I almost did it too. Made my dummies so I could practice using the TV as the backstop (and the cement wall behind). I made sure no live ammo in the room and commenced tap rack drills and others. Once I'd worked through a mag I'd pick the rounds up off the floor and start over. One round bounced under the couch, lifted corner of couch up and grabbed it, and loaded it in the mag. I noticed it had a non dinted primer. Thought, hmmm. took another look. Hmmmm???? lifted couch, oh look at that, there's the one with the fired primer. Put the other one in my range bag, took to range and yup, it fired. I guess a cat found it in the laundry room or something, I really don't know, but it ended up under my couch. Since then I've run the bright orange tips of plastic and nice polished nickel case. No mistaking those.
Well not quite true, CSC managed to mistake one of those and punch a round through the wall in the office upstairs at the club and take out the monitor I was going to be sitting at 1/2 hr later doing some computer stuff.
With 15 years of teaching a class pretty much every week and averaging in 15 people a week, I've had a lot students, I explain the above to them, and it doesn't always take. People get complacent at home, which is the single biggest accident causer. I see it all the time at the range too from just drop ins, to high level competitive shooters.
Well not quite true, CSC managed to mistake one of those and punch a round through the wall in the office upstairs at the club and take out the monitor I was going to be sitting at 1/2 hr later doing some computer stuff.
With 15 years of teaching a class pretty much every week and averaging in 15 people a week, I've had a lot students, I explain the above to them, and it doesn't always take. People get complacent at home, which is the single biggest accident causer. I see it all the time at the range too from just drop ins, to high level competitive shooters.
I make tons of dummy's from old hulls. I use colour hulls that I usually don't buy on my own ( pink shotshell) loads are sized and replaced with a spent primer, filled with inert powder(not gun powder) and then 1oz of shot/old bb's. Some of the wife's nail polish is added to further identify. They are real weight and great for load/unloading and action testing. I am more than willing to make some up for those that would like some. PM for details. Oh and keep your dummies away from real ammo. I missed on a deer by putting a dummy round instead of a live one. CLICK!!
I make tons of dummy's from old hulls. I use colour hulls that I usually don't buy on my own ( pink shotshell) loads are sized and replaced with a spent primer, filled with inert powder(not gun powder) and then 1oz of shot/old bb's. Some of the wife's nail polish is added to further identify. They are real weight and great for load/unloading and action testing. I am more than willing to make some up for those that would like some. PM for details.
Oh and keep your dummies away from real ammo. I missed on a deer by putting a dummy round instead of a live one. CLICK!!
Not to be a d**k but isn`t that last statement proving that you can and DID mix up your dummy rounds even though they were different colours and marked with your wifes nail polish
I was practicing with the red aluminum .308 snap-caps last night. They work OK, but they are cut roughly so they do not work as smooth as actual brass. The Firearms training course I took used rounds with no primer (pocket filled with silicone or J.B. Weld) and small holes drilled in the case. Seems reasonably distinguishable to me. Might have to make a few of those.
Your right. Everything has a learning curve.(this was done with a rifle round) Hence the nail polish, or other clear distinguishable marks now. I had the dummy on the stock cartridge holder, and now I have learnt my lesson. Hence why I shared the experience. Now dummies are on one side of the gun room while all other "live" ammo is in containers on the other side of the room. When playing outside of the range all ammo is carefully inspected to ensure there are no live rounds being chambered..wiseman learn from others mistakes, consider yourselves all a little wiser. Cheers.
