Live round stuck in body die.

[Smellydog]

Waste of time, just cuts the case around the wad. You just have a short case to eject after.

The proper way to seal an open shotgun cartridge sans roll or star crimp is with an overshot card and waterglass or a cellulose varnish like nail varnish.
Melting wax is messy and frankly useless.

 

[finnbear270]

Blended powder needs Mag primers.

 

[Lateral]

A mistake, but it happens. That said, so long as you don't get hit in the eye, if the round was set off, wouldn't it be non lethal, much the same as throwing live rounds into a fire, as confirmed on "Myth Busters" ?

 

[8x57]

There used to be a guy at our local clay club who was a truly dreadful shooter, he couldn't hit a barn door if he was holding the handle. His solution was to buy a new gun each week when that didn't work he decided to load his own cartridges. I can still picture it in my mind now how shooting on the down the line stand we all rolled around laughing at the long strips of toilet paper that he had used for wadding was hanging like Christmas decorations from the bushes surrounding the layout. Some of the toilet paper was burning slowly upwards.

 

[Foxyboy43]

There used to be a guy at our local clay club who was a truly dreadful shooter, he couldn't hit a barn door if he was holding the handle. His solution was to buy a new gun each week when that didn't work he decided to load his own cartridges. I can still picture it in my mind now how shooting on the down the line stand we all rolled around laughing at the long strips of toilet paper that he had used for wadding was hanging like Christmas decorations from the bushes surrounding the layout. Some of the toilet paper was burning slowly upwards.

Hmmm.
Does he now post awful jokes on this site - really, really early?

 

[8x57]

Hmmm.
Does he now post awful jokes on this site - really, really early?

The old boy is long long gone.
Another thing that he did was to cut a hole in the top of his gun cabinet so as to allow the barrel of a long muzzle loading gun to stick through. He then disguised the protruding muzzle with a lamp shade to make it look like a table lamp.

 

[Foxyboy43]

The old boy is long long gone.
Another thing that he did was to cut a hole in the top of his gun cabinet so as to allow the barrel of a long muzzle loading gun to stick through. He then disguised the protruding muzzle with a lamp shade to make it look like a table lamp.

Love it - how I wish those old characters were still here…
Saying that my pal arrived at my door to ask me help him set up his new Pard - I of course said sure thing and out of his jeep he lifted a hard shotgun case with 4 inches of rifle barrel protruding through the neatly cut hole in the side!

 

[Dunwaters]

I think dripping melted candle wax onto the crimp closure of home-loaded shotgun shells was common practice, wasn't it?

Back in the 70’s if you dripped it directly into the shot you got a solid slug which could then be used to drop deer….allegedly.

 

[8x57]

Another old character that I knew was so tight that he wouldn't buy a gun slip to carry around his rifles instead he used pairs of old trousers with the ends of the legs tied up with string. He would simply shove the rifle down the leg of the trousers. The chap shouldn't have been short of money as he was a scientist working for I.C.I. and he had a stable of old British sports cars.

 

[VSS]

Back in the 70’s if you dripped it directly into the shot you got a solid slug which could then be used to drop deer….allegedly.

Yes, that's what I was thinking of.

Another old character that I knew was so tight that he wouldn't buy a gun slip to carry around his rifles instead he used pairs of old trousers with the ends of the legs tied up with string. He would simply shove the rifle down the leg of the trousers.

I made my first gun slip from the leg of a pair of waxed padded motorcyclists trousers. Had it for years.

 

[8x57]

I made my first gun slip from the leg of a pair of waxed padded motorcyclists trousers. Had it for years.

Now why do I absolutely believe you when you say that.

 

[VSS]

Now why do I absolutely believe you when you say that.

Ha!
I should obviously have told you the whole story:
I filched the leggings from a rubbish skip at the back of our student digs.

 

[HonestJohn]

Ha!
I should obviously have told you the whole story:
I filched the leggings from a rubbish skip at the back of our student digs.

Imagine the poor bastard waking up trouser less in a skip after a student night out.

 

[Foxyboy43]

Yes, that's what I was thinking of.

I made my first gun slip from the leg of a pair of waxed padded motorcyclists trousers. Had it for years.

Crikey - your other leg must have been frozen every time you went out for a ride!

 

[kenbro]

Don’t believe all you read on the internet about things being dangerous to do.
Ken.

 

[Smellydog]

Back in the 70’s if you dripped it directly into the shot you got a solid slug which could then be used to drop deer….allegedly.

It doesn't work. The wax sets before making to the bottom of the pellets. Unless you heat the whole cartridge, which is where the problems really start.
Far easier to cut around the case and into the wad, allegedly....

 

[Foxyboy43]

It doesn't work. The wax sets before making to the bottom of the pellets. Unless you heat the whole cartridge, which is where the problems really start.
Far easier to cut around the case and into the wad, allegedly....

Microwave - calling Kenbro, calling Kenbro….

 

[Smellydog]

Microwave - calling Kenbro, calling Kenbro….

Probably works with near boiling wax. Thats fun stuff to handle also.

If someone is intent on doing that stuff there are many many other better options...

 

[LeftHandGuy]

Microwave - calling Kenbro, calling Kenbro….

Next time you try this, could you film it for us? Purely for instructional purposes....

 

[Foxyboy43]

Next time you try this, could you film it for us? Purely for instructional purposes....

No way - look what happened to my last microwave….