Posted: 3/22/2006 2:27:04 AM EDT
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It's the middle of the winter....I'm bored...I need to shoot..... My neighbor suggested wax loads for in the basement shooting..... I've done some research...in 45 LC they sell brass that takes shotgun primers.... Anyone doing this... will the wax screw up my pistol.....??? thanks |
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Just need to scrub the wax out before using real ammo. You can use regular brass and pistol primers, but you need to enlarge the flash hole or else the primers back out and tie up the cylinder. Mark the brass so you do not use it for real loads with the enlarged flash holes. |
Thanks for the reply..... do you know how much I should drill out the flash holes....???? |
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It has been 15 years since I did it, but IIRC 1/8 inch is about right. Try a few and see if the primers stay seated. Go bigger if you have to. I got the info from an article years ago, in a normal round, the powder charge puts enough pressure on the case to keep the primer seated. Primer only in a case often starts to back out without the extra pressure. |
???? Lead in the primer???? I would also look at the Speer plastic bullets and cases (Midway USA carries them). No waxy mess and bullets can be reused after catching them in a cardboard box/ trap. I have used these in past in my .38. Just tape a target to a cardboard box stuffed with old newspapers. Fun in the garage! |
You bet. That's why ranges have those fancy air conditioning units nowadays.
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I had no idea what primers were made of............ |
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In reality, the vast majority of lead in the air from shooting doesn't come from the base of the bullet vaporising, or disintegrating on impat. It's from the lead in the primer. The lead styphnate primers were th first ones that weren't corrosive but still had the reliabiltiy of the old corrosive primers. That, and to a slightly lessor amount, the cost have been the reason that you don't see too many lead free primers in use. And the wax won't do anything bad at all to a pistol. At the very worst if somehow some of the rounds melted it would just take some scrubbing, maybe a bit of heat to soften it, and perhaps some solvent that dissolves wax. Hell, it might even make the bore more rust resistant until it's cleaned, or regular round are fired through it. |