Pictures of ordinary wax slugs and wax slugs with a 45cal 200gr bullet added. I suspect the bullet set back down in the wad column on firing, and broke up the wax binder, so it just became a shot...
Type: Posts; User: Ganderite
Pictures of ordinary wax slugs and wax slugs with a 45cal 200gr bullet added. I suspect the bullet set back down in the wad column on firing, and broke up the wax binder, so it just became a shot...
I tried my wax slugs that had a 200gr lead bullet in with the wax and shot.
Did not work as a slug. The bullet collapsed the wax slug and all I got from the muzzle as a cloud of shot and a 200...
I have seen lots of cow-calves but never with a bull around.
Here are some pictures. You can see the remains of the folded over lip that retains the wad.
https://i.imgur.com/nSrJWrd.png
https://i.imgur.com/9zYGvCE.png
https://i.imgur.com/6RQM8Zr.png...
I pour in sealing wax. Ladle it in with a teaspoon. I colour each pot with a melted wax crayon to make the wax easier to see. It cools to be quite hard.
https://i.imgur.com/r1JzcxZ.jpg
I am a real novice at loading shotshells, although 50 years ago I was very involved with CIL ammo division R&D, and most of my work was on shotshells. At that time we were developing plastic wad...
Forum: Factory & Surplus Powder
I bought a few jugs of it in the hope it would be as useful as the IPP powder I bought a few years ago. (Also in the Unique speed range.)
I loaded my first test of it last night and shot it...
BP | Bronze Point | IMR | Improved Military Rifle | PTD | Pointed |
BR | Bench Rest | M | Magnum | RN | Round Nose |
BT | Boat Tail | PL | Power-Lokt | SP | Soft Point |
C | Compressed Charge | PR | Primer | SPCL | Soft Point "Core-Lokt" |
HP | Hollow Point | PSPCL | Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt" | C.O.L. | Cartridge Overall Length |
PSP | Pointed Soft Point | Spz | Spitzer Point | SBT | Spitzer Boat Tail |
LRN | Lead Round Nose | LWC | Lead Wad Cutter | LSWC | Lead Semi Wad Cutter |
GC | Gas Check |