BillyGoatGruff; Good evening to you sir, I hope this finds you and yours doing well.
Somewhere in my reloading room I've got some plastic Speer Plastic Training bullets, which of course you don't want to use because you'd loose the projectiles - but my point is they work quite well fired with just a primer.
Again somewhere in the same place hiding in the reloading room or maybe the bookshelves is an article on shooting with wax bullets. A quick google of wax bullets led to this site. http://www.waxbullet.com/
They are running 209 primers and if memory serves the Speers ran Large Pistol - if I could find them I might confirm that, but I digress......
Anyway, even further in the back of my admittedly cluttered memory is the thought that I reloaded some .38Spl cases with a very small amount of WW231 and then just shoved the cases into a block of Paraffin wax.
I seem to recall they came out of the muzzle with gusto, but can't for the life of me recall if one could hit a balloon with one or not.
Bill Jordan wrote about doing his trick shooting with wax bullets too, but didn't share his handload recipe or if he did I don't remember.
Sorry that I've got a lot of "don't remember" going on tonight BGG, but maybe I've given you a couple ideas???
Good luck on your project whichever way you decide and all the best to you and yours for the rest of the summer.
Dwayne
Further research???
Last edited by BC30cal; 08/03/14. Reason: added info
