Question regarding "Quick Draw"

[caryc]

How accurate are the wax bullets?
Could you hit a Jack Russell terrier at say
25 to 30 feet? What kind of damage would it
do to the hypothetical Jack Russell?
Thinking either .38 or .45 cal.
The little bastard seems impervious to a Daisy
BB gun.
Dave

The wax bullets are pretty accurate. You could surely hit that dog. I certainly wouldn't want to be hit by one. I aimed one at a large clay flower pot at about 15 feet and it broke the pot. All that's needed to shoot wax bullets it an empty case and a regular primer. The primer hole needs to be drilled out to 1/8" to get maximum effect from the primer. No gun powder is needed.

 

[Bob Wright]

How accurate are the wax bullets?
Could you hit a Jack Russell terrier at say
25 to 30 feet? What kind of damage would it
do to the hypothetical Jack Russell?
Thinking either .38 or .45 cal.
The little bastard seems impervious to a Daisy
BB gun.
Dave

The wax bullets are pretty accurate. You could surely hit that dog. I certainly wouldn't want to be hit by one. I aimed one at a large clay flower pot at about 15 feet and it broke the pot. All that's needed to shoot wax bullets it an empty case and a regular primer. The primer hole needs to be drilled out to 1/8" to get maximum effect from the primer. No gun powder is needed.

What a memory you just brought back, Cary! When I was a kid I loaded some .45 Colt cases with a primer and canning wax, just pressing the case down into the wax cake.

My "range" was my bedroom, with the closet door opened up. I had a cardboard box, filled with old newspapers and backed by Sears Roebuck catalog. I taped a target to the front of the box and fired the fifteen feet or so.

My first shot the cylinder bound up, and I found that the primer had been blown back against the breech of my revolver, a Colt New Service. I found that I could drill out the primer hole to stop the primer backing out. This ruined my cases for reloading, though I was not yet into reloading, so I only drilled out a few.

I used a nail filed down to punch out the fired primers, and a wood block and dowel to seat new ones.

My bedroom was paneled in knotty pine, so any wild shots just went to waxing the woodwork!

Thanks for reviving a memory from long ago!

Bob Wright

 

[caryc]

How accurate are the wax bullets?
Could you hit a Jack Russell terrier at say
25 to 30 feet? What kind of damage would it
do to the hypothetical Jack Russell?
Thinking either .38 or .45 cal.
The little bastard seems impervious to a Daisy
BB gun.
Dave

The wax bullets are pretty accurate. You could surely hit that dog. I certainly wouldn't want to be hit by one. I aimed one at a large clay flower pot at about 15 feet and it broke the pot. All that's needed to shoot wax bullets it an empty case and a regular primer. The primer hole needs to be drilled out to 1/8" to get maximum effect from the primer. No gun powder is needed.

What a memory you just brought back, Cary! When I was a kid I loaded some .45 Colt cases with a primer and canning wax, just pressing the case down into the wax cake.

My "range" was my bedroom, with the closet door opened up. I had a cardboard box, filled with old newspapers and backed by Sears Roebuck catalog. I taped a target to the front of the box and fired the fifteen feet or so.

My first shot the cylinder bound up, and I found that the primer had been blown back against the breech of my revolver, a Colt New Service. I found that I could drill out the primer hole to stop the primer backing out. This ruined my cases for reloading, though I was not yet into reloading, so I only drilled out a few.

I used a nail filed down to punch out the fired primers, and a wood block and dowel to seat new ones.

My bedroom was paneled in knotty pine, so any wild shots just went to waxing the woodwork!

Thanks for reviving a memory from long ago!

Bob Wright

One has to be careful shooting wax bullets as to what kind of background they are hitting. Shooting at something like plywood, the wax bullet can actually bounce back at you. When shooting wax, a good backstop is a piece of heavy canvas thrown over a clothesline. The canvas will absorb the impact of the bullet and it won't bounce back.