The Next Great Ammo Scare

[dtknowles]

A laser to light the powder or primer. If the ammo was caseless this would be easy. With a case you need a transparent window in the primer hole.

Tim

[3006guns]

I still have a box of those .38 special plastic cases made back in the seventies............you know, "plastic with a memory". Each case has an aluminum base, plastic body and uses copper plated, heeled bullets. I have the reloading tool and 200 bullets also, everything a guy needs to sit in a motel room and reload if necessary. It's actually a pretty clever concept, as no resizing is needed. After firing the cases shrink back down to their nominal size, so you reprime, charge powder and seat the bullet.

Only thing is, once you've used up the heeled bullets where do you get more?

Why, a custom mold of course!

The other problem is that I have no idea what the "case life" of this plastic is......might even degenerate with storage.