Well I never........

[Longone]

Seen anything like these other than the Speer (CCI ) plastic bullets. New R-P case with a plastic projectile in the case. Projectile weighs just shy of 10 grains, no powder so they are propelled like the Speer bullets by the primer.
Were these commercially available? The box I have is M&D which I believe produced reloaded ammo, not sure if they ever made “new”.

 

[oscarflytyer]

I have some in 44 SPC, think they are Speer. Only ones I have ever seen.

 

[KeithB]

Now that I have a really accurate tooling setup for my CNC lathe it might be fun to make up some nylon or acetal (Delrin) bullets. Might even be able to re-use them if you had the right target media.

Wouldn't surprise me if someone else did that and loaded them in new brass. Are the primer holes the same size as other brass or have they been drilled out?

 

[oscarflytyer]

ones I have are projectiles only. says to seat in case and use primer only...

 

[Brad]

Sounds like a neat idea Keith. A run of 6 to 12 would be plenty for initial testing. Something like a 44 WC would be good. I think a few grooves would make sense so material has a place to move when the bullet hits the lands.

 

[fiver]

I have some of those plastic bullets for the 45.
the older speer type but I have shot them several times.
you don't need to make them groove diameter just a little over bore so they grab the rifling a little and spin.

 

[Pistolero]

I used to have, (prolly somewhere around still) some molded rubber WC bullets with fins on
the back. They came with plastic cases. Push case onto a primer by hand, push bullet into case
load and fire. Worked pretty well. I shot them a dozen or so times, seemed to be still pretty much
OK. Got them probably in about early 80s.

Bill

 

[dromia]

Had them in a black plastic years ago, don't know the make, shot surprisingly well at 10 yrds in my Python. Used a cardboard box stuffed with news paper as a target backer/backstop. Got equally good results using wax plugs just cut from a sheet with each case.

 

[dromia]

My all time favourite primer only powered load is 22 Hornet cases loaded with a .22 airgun pellet, surprisingly accurate.

 

[Intheshop]

We used Bazooka bubble gum cut out like a biscuit with 38 sp case.... when I was a kid.

When wife would leave me in charge babysitting our boys,I let them use canning wax.Also made some out of wooden dowels when they were little too. It was fun "enough" but,by that time they were all shooting bows and that seemed to be even more fun.Made tooling for a moulding machine that makes arrows,3 wide.... cuts half of the profile on the first pass,then flip stock over and run it through again.... 3 finished arrows.Not the only way to make dowels(arrows) but "is" the way industry makes them.

 

[Longone]

The primer flash hole has not been drilled out. I had some of the Speer 38’s with the black plastic case and the blue plastic bullet and they did work pretty well. These things have been sitting with some other stuff I got from a store that went out. I looked at them a bunch of times and incorrectly assumed the bullet was wax, I finally decided to pull one and much to my surprise they are a hard plastic.
The box they came in is from M&D reloading in Farmingdale NY. Early on when I was first buying reloads we used a fair amount of their stuff along with Carrol reloads, those loads should have never been used indoors!! Talk about smoke!!!
There is a label on the box but the print has long faded away that probably gave a description.

 

[Bret4207]

I made the mistake of saying "Yes." when the whole class at the Academy was asked if anyone had any reloading experience. I spent many, many hours in the lecture hall priming those Speer plastic cases, thousands of them, while everyone else got to pay attention to the intricacies of the Criminal Procedure Law, etc.

 

[Cherokee]

I still have 50 or so of the 38 Speer plastic cases and bullets. Haven't used them in years but they worked good years ago.

 

[oscarflytyer]

Was rereading this, and realized, mine are the black plastic and included plastic cases.

 

[KHornet]

Ya, I also have some of the black plastic ones
SOMEPlace!

Paul