Primer powered rubber bullets

I've had occasion to work beside special effects guys in movies.
Glue stick is the standard projectile for doing the bullet / buckshot-through-the-windscreen sequence.

The glue stick is fired from a purpose built air cannon INSIDE the car. The (special movie) glass blows away from the driver and the glue stick melts from impact and sticks the potential shrapnel together. A neat, safe solution. DON'T TRY THIS AT HOME.
 
condomboy said:
I'd be hesitant about glue sticks... I would think the rifling might get gummed up or glued with the friction as it exits, we use the term leading when you shoot cast... so I guess we can call this glueing?
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i wouldn't worry about it, maybe if you loaded it with gun powder as well, but primer only, i don't see it.
 
Assuming that you guys that are going to try this intend to try them in your basement stop and recall that much of the lead exposure in shooting comes from the gases produced by the primers. The most common primers, as I understand it, are charged with something like lead stiphanate. Without a good ventilation system that ensures that the gases do not get blown into the rest of the house you may well find that you're giving yourself and the rest of the family needless lead exposure.
 
BCRider said:
Assuming that you guys that are going to try this intend to try them in your basement stop and recall that much of the lead exposure in shooting comes from the gases produced by the primers. The most common primers, as I understand it, are charged with something like lead stiphanate. Without a good ventilation system that ensures that the gases do not get blown into the rest of the house you may well find that you're giving yourself and the rest of the family needless lead exposure.
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Needless? I beg to differ... :p

So I have some glue sticks from walmart here and they seem to be 0.44" not 0.45". They slide loosely into new brass but will hold in place. It is the same with the bore of the gun. I'm guessing any pressure behind these will expand them enough to seal the bore so it should be a fun experiment tonight.

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So looking at the package it says 0.44" right on it....
 
So I drilled out some 45 colt brass and loaded up a CCI magnum rifle primer along with 1" worth of glue stick. I think the results speak for themselves. :D (I think the bottom actually tore off...it grouped quite well from what I could see....the bottom was kind of stuck in a snowbank)

Shot at about 8' and I don't think I'd want to get hit with these. They move pretty fast. Probably 350-400fps.

Also the smell of primers only is horrendous.

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dead meat said:
The plastic bullets i had for a 45 colt required you to drill the flash hole larger and not use those cases for regular loads afterwards. You can also use wax bullets for short range shooting, just take a primed case and push it into a pad of hardened wax say 3/8" to 1/2" thick give it a twist and your loaded and ready to shoot. Reusable to.
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This is what I've done in the past. Works great and even with wax there is next to no melting. If you did manage to shoot enough to get wax buildup its easy to remove. Just hang an old sheet for a backstop.
Drilling the flash hole stops the primers from backing out and jamming your revolver.

Another line of inquiry is search fast draw supplies. They use modified cases that take shotgun primers and there are suppliers of plastic bullets made for 45 colt.
 
Freyr_255 said:
So I never knew these existed until the other day when someone showed me a primer powered pistol bullet in 38 special. It had a rubber projectile and a plastic case for it. I've done some looking around for similar and what I've found are X-ring rubber bullets.
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I got a handful of these a bunch of years ago. They also work in 9mm although obviously don't cycle the action. We loaded them with small rifle primers for a little extra oomph. Whatever the little devil on your shoulder tells you DO NOT shoot these at your significant other. The guy who gave them to me wisely tried a cardboard box before he tried them out on the wife. Apparently the first shot went clean through the side of the box. I suspect that might leave a welt serous enough to get you cut off for quite a while.
 
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