Reeder Custom Guns - Shooting in Bad Weather

Since Gary sent the weather our way it has turned off cool and rainy. But to counter the poor weather I have a small indoor range in the shop. The .22 Bullet Trap is set in a small alcove I built that has enough wood around it to stop a bullet that misses the trap ... if that ever happens. The shop is 90 by 45 .. I can get 40 feet at this angle. It functions just fine for working on sight alignment/trigger squeeze.

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Have seen people for centerfire use wax bullets for indoor use, when I was young dad would use the plastic bullets from speer, set off with just a primer, hang a tin an in front of a heavy blanket for backstop. They will penetrate a light closet door, trust me...

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'course it had 10 grains of Bullseye behind it ...

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crazy velocities. I figure they shoot pretty wild though, some blanks used wood bullets. The hot glue sounds fun! I have it on good report that chilled marshmallows can ricochet wildly. Not that anyone would think to make a SCUBA powered launcher....

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When I was in my early teens, I melted candle wax into a cut down shotgun hull with a live primer in it until I figured I had enough to make a good shootable slug. When I shot it it went through my target and put a nice 20 gauge sized dent in a sheetrock wall, and it was an old kind of sheetrock from the 50s or 60s. I'm glad I didn't test it out on the dog instead.

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https://www.thehighroad.org/index.php?threads/playing-with-hot-glue-bullets.834816/

Here's a link for an example, I read about this a decade ago, now everyone seems to be doin it, there is also a link in it for wax bullet recipe.

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powdered by the primer. They were fun. Shooting them with a fairly heavy change of Bullseye is a little hard on them though.

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Too much damage with the plastic bullets, i never used powder with them.
A friend of mine got in trouble (from his wife) using a blabk powder revolver, with black powder behind a rubber bullet. He shot a family photograph and ruined the frame, plus smoked up the inside of his house.

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Shooting in Bad Weather

Nice setup

I shot a wax bullet through 1" of oak

LOL! I heard folks using oak turned bullets and clocking

wax bullets and penetration

Hey Scotty, found this

Have seen hot glue used to cast ones own as well

Shot the old Speer plastic bullets

I used the rubber bullets