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    Quote Originally Posted by delmar View Post
    I know this thread has been idle for a good peice of time but I got a bag of 12 ga wads for $3 and decided to try my hand at making glue slugs. I don't have a mold yet so I decided to try pumping the hot glue into the wad it's self. I started by cutting both ends off of an old 12 ga shell and placing a wad into it so that the wad would be in the right shape and sort of rigid. Then I just filled it up with hot glue and the first one turned out real nice. Unfortunately, with the glue gun on high, by the time I got the first first one cool enough to remove from the shell, the glue was so hot it melted my second wad faster than you can say worthless lump of goo!

    After I turned the heat and waited for a few minutes I tried attempt 3. I t would have worked pretty well except that I removed the wad from the shell before it was cool enough to keep it's shape.

    Attempt number 4 turned out pretty much exactly the same as number one.

    Now I have a question. Do you think it is important to pry the glue-slug out of the wad before I load it in the shell or would you just load it as is?
    Have you fired these yet? I'm concerned about the hardness of the solid glue wad combo and how well it will pass through the choke. It wouldn't hurt the choke, but it could get lodged in a full choke.

    This whole thread reminds me of my high school years. Me and a couple of friends had started shotshell reloading. We would load just a primer and a wad then fold the crimp into the shell. In the summer after dark, we'd hang out in the back yard with the outside porch lights on. The lights attracted mosquito's and moths, which in turn attracted lots of bats. We never even hit one bat, ever. I swear those little buggers could track the slow moving wad and move out of the way before they got hit. I'm not sure what we would have done if we ever hit one, but it was fun and we got to shoot. And we'd just go out on the lawn the following morning and pick up all the wads. Not only would we use the wads over and over for bat shooting, but we still loaded them with shot to shoot clay birds with.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Centaur 1 View Post
    Have you fired these yet? I'm concerned about the hardness of the solid glue wad combo and how well it will pass through the choke. It wouldn't hurt the choke, but it could get lodged in a full choke.
    Yes, I have shot a couple. I did pry them out of the wad first, then put them back in. I made about 5 out of glue and made another 20 out of wax. You can't reuse the wax, but it is cheap, cheap, cheap!
    This whole thread reminds me of my high school years. Me and a couple of friends had started shotshell reloading. We would load just a primer and a wad then fold the crimp into the shell. In the summer after dark, we'd hang out in the back yard with the outside porch lights on. The lights attracted mosquito's and moths, which in turn attracted lots of bats. We never even hit one bat, ever. I swear those little buggers could track the slow moving wad and move out of the way before they got hit. I'm not sure what we would have done if we ever hit one, but it was fun and we got to shoot. And we'd just go out on the lawn the following morning and pick up all the wads. Not only would we use the wads over and over for bat shooting, but we still loaded them with shot to shoot clay birds with.

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    Well I must admit thinking you guys were crazy for shooting hot glue boolits when I first read of this thread a few years ago.

    But I recently ran into a dilema. I was asked to teach a class about firearms safety for people at work. After making a list of guns to demonstrate, I rounded up all my dummy cartridges, and found none for the 22 l.r. or 44 Magnum. Well, thats what the internet is for!! Found 22s, but still couldn't find 44s.

    Then I remembered this thread, and remembered a conversation with dcp (he's a buddy of mine from waaaaay back) that he started doing glue boolits for shooting in his basement. Quick call to him, review of this thread, and <$10 investment at Harbor Freight, and I've got dummy rounds for the 44 that are just as good as store-bought!!

    I'll get to use them again as I'm a hunter safety instructor in my state now, and these will work perfect in that venue as well. Just another way to use these I thought I'd share, and to thank you all for a great idea (even if not for what you intended)!
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    Forgive me if this is a duplicate. The first post seems to be lost in cyberspace. I had used some Pam for Grilling last night. It gets the can really sticky. No kitchen cleaner seemed to affect it. I squirted a shot of Fast Orange on my hand and rubbed the can down. Effortlessly, the can was clean again. This Fast Orange had pumice in it but I wouldn't think a little pumice would hurt a mold if used gently. I've seen Fast Orange without pumice at an auto parts store. I think I would find the Fast Orange without pumice before using it on aluminum molds.

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    Can you make .22 gluelets?
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    yes

    If you have a 22 mold

    I have 3 new 22 Bator molds. I am going to make some


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    Can you make .22 gluelets?
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    I actually tried these today (44 round ball mold) and they seem like they are more accurate than the .44 speer plastic bullets.


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    Quote Originally Posted by Ole View Post
    I actually tried these today (44 round ball mold) and they seem like they are more accurate than the .44 speer plastic bullets.

    I was thinking a while back, that glue round balls would be cool for my cap and ball guns!

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    Glue shooters, I have two Medium flat rate boxes of 1" dia. x 3" long hot melt glue sticks I want to get rid of for the price of the shipping. $11 each

    PM me if interested!
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    Quote Originally Posted by doug strong View Post
    Tom, are you thinking of this for your Gahendra?
    Howdy Talbot!!!
    do you think this might be a good way to get some trigger time in when the weather might not cooperate?

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    Hello fellow casters,

    This is my first post here and being faily new to casting I can see I'm in the right place to expand my knowlege ten fold. This is a great forum and I have really enjoyed and learned alot in the past few days since finding y'all.

    After reading this thread I'm chomping at the bits to do this. I'm stuck in OKC testing equipment and can't wait to get back home to do this. I'm thinking of trying the 158 gr mold for my wife 38 spl.

    We have to drive 45 minutes to get to our gun club, so this will definitly be the ticket to our fun at the range anytime.

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    During the winters we used to spend parts of the winter shooting targets in the garage, back then we used wax bullets and 38 special brass in out .357 pistols. I decided to see if my 92 would function the same but I really did not want to go through the mess of making, loading and cleaning up after wax bullets.

    I looked up plastic bullets and yes they make them but I thought "Hell I can make those things" so after some experimentation I found that I could cast my own plastic slugs out of that hot glue plastic using some cleaned up once fired 9mm brass as the molds.

    I opened up the primer hole with a #8 bit, cleaned up the primer pockets and lubed the cases with Armourall and shot them full of hot melt plastic glue. After cooling I need to warm the case slightly to be able to push the slug out of the case.

    I found the slugs are slightly tapered from the inside case shape so I turn them over when I seat them in the primed case.

    I shot about a dozen rounds today at 18' using a cardboard box with an old pillow in it.

    I also shot a few rounds 4 times each to see how they held up and they seemed to do fine.

    Now surprisingly these things pack more of a wallop than I thought they would, at 18' it punched clear through a 1/8" piece of Luan board and dented the drywall 3' behind it about 1/16", this being powered with a standard small pistol primer.

    I was worried about barrel fouling being it is glue after all but I ran the nylon brush through the barrel a couple of times and then a couple of patches and there was no residue left in the bore. Fact is it's a lot cleaner shooting than wax.
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    That's pretty freakin cool. I had no idea you could do that.

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    glooblits?
    gotta try this out for sure!

    has anyone every tried to cast a glooblit with a BB in the bottom of the mold?
    (for a tad bit more weight)
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    I dug out my old glue gun and as I was trying to figure what to use as a cast (didn't want to f-up my good molds) I discovered the gluesticks fit nice and snug into my 45LC cartridges, so I chopped off a couple pieces from the stick about 3/4" long, no melting or molding involved and stuffed into a regular 45LC cartridge with standard LP primer and shot through 6 layers of cardboard just fine. obviously it would be more powerful with a magnum primer or what, but it was kinda cool to see it punch through cardboard like a wad cutter.
    Geez, gotta go to walmart and stock up on gluesticks now (grin) this could be fun - now to see what the Chrono says about it
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    Quote Originally Posted by jacpot View Post
    I dug out my old glue gun and as I was trying to figure what to use as a cast (didn't want to f-up my good molds) I discovered the gluesticks fit nice and snug into my 45LC cartridges, so I chopped off a couple pieces from the stick about 3/4" long, no melting or molding involved and stuffed into a regular 45LC cartridge with standard LP primer and shot through 6 layers of cardboard just fine. obviously it would be more powerful with a magnum primer or what, but it was kinda cool to see it punch through cardboard like a wad cutter.
    Geez, gotta go to walmart and stock up on gluesticks now (grin) this could be fun - now to see what the Chrono says about it
    For a mold you could take a 45ACP case make sure it's nice and round and pop the primer out so you can push out the cooled glueblits, you might need to slightly warm the "Mold" to get the boolit out after casting, I use a little alcohol lamp for that.

    Have fun and be careful, these suckers really travel with my 9MM and a small pistol primer with the larger primer I'll bet the really pack a wallop.

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    People could have fights with them like airsoft or paintball. or is it too lethal??
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    Like I said in an earlier post these suckers pack more of a wallop than you'd think and at close range I'd bet they'd draw blood.

    At 18 feet they went through 4 layers of cardboard, I'm still hoping to get a rat in the wood pile to stick around long enough to get a shot at one using one of these and I'll be it kills it.

    Provided I can hit the little varmint. Most of the slow stupid ones have already succumbed to 22 CB caps

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    Quote Originally Posted by JanZ View Post
    Most of the slow stupid ones have already succumbed to 22 CB caps
    Leave a bowl of lead based paint chips out for them. Or mix your dross with peanut butter for them to eat.
    If grasshoppers carried .45's the birds wouldnt mess with them.

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    .45 cal Hot Glue Sticks!

    Wow... I like putting things where they don't belong.

    This is wrong with a capital "R"

    I am going to try that with .45 blanks in my 1858 Italian Remmy.
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