Rainy Day Shooting - Rubber bullets in the garage - w/ pics
Hey guys, I had a blast this morning. See, its raining here in Ga and I was bored. I got me some of those rubber bullets from Midway. All you need is a case, a primer and a rubber bullet and you're set to shoot.
The first pic is of the inside of my garage. The target is a little mailing envelope I colored a blue dot on. I sat in another wheelchair out under the eve so I wouldn't get rained on. And fired 6 times at the blue dot.
#1 and #2 are my 06 Harley Road King w/ sidecar.
#3 is my shelf of gun powders for reloading.
#4 is my Hornady LnL Progressive press and Lyman tumblers.
#5 are my fishing poles - I really like to fish.
#6 is my PVC pipe homemade target stand and envelop target.
#7 is my son's customized (he did all the work on it hiimself) Harley 1200 Sportster dirt bike, which he discovered is far too powerful to be a dirt bike. Now, it's a street bike.
The next pic is a closer-up of the envelop target. Those rubber bullets shoot darn good! I was probably about 15 - 20 ft away, I guess I need to measure it. Behind the target is a wet blue towel. The bullets hit it and fall into a box below.
The next pic is my Ruger SBH .44 Mag.
#1 and #8 are the Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Mag wihjt Millet Red Dot scope
#2 is a Lee non-caliber-specific (universal) de-priming die (I use it in my
Hornady single stage Classic LnL press to knock out the spent primer and seat a new one.
#3 and #7 are two 44 Spl cases I modified (drilled out the primer hole with a 3/16 inch drill bit) - I used a magic marker to put on a green band so I would NEVER load one of these babies w/ gun powder and a lead bullet - that could mess your whole day up.
#4 and #5 are .44 caliber rubber bullets. They are simply big, hollow rubber bullets. You put them in the case by hand. Bullet #4 is resting bottom up, #5 is right side up.
And finally, here is a pic of 38 and 44 cases, two unmodified and two modified for the rubber bullets.
Case #1 is a .357 case, not modified. I'll use it for my true reloads.
Case #2 is a 38 Spl case modified with a 1/8 inch drill bit. At first I used the 3/16 (like I did for the 44 case) and the primer fell right through. The case in this pic has been drilled with a 9/64 inch bit. I want as much of the power of the primer to pass through and hit the bullet.
Case #3 is a modified 44 Spl case - I drilled out primer hole with 3/16 inch bit. This is one of the cases I used to shoot the 6-shot group you saw in pic #2. Later, I discovered that this case would not shoot a magnum primer, because the 3/16 inch hole is too large - so, I modified some more 44 mag cases w/ a 1/8 inch bit - they worked fine.
Case #4 is a regular .44 Mag case, like those I reload.
It is imperative that you don't not get these cases mixed up.
Never, never shoot a full power loaded round in one of the rubber bullet modified cases.
Didn't mean for this thread to turn into a rubber bullet clinic. I tried to anticipate your questions as I typed this.
Hack
Hey guys, I had a blast this morning. See, its raining here in Ga and I was bored. I got me some of those rubber bullets from Midway. All you need is a case, a primer and a rubber bullet and you're set to shoot.
The first pic is of the inside of my garage. The target is a little mailing envelope I colored a blue dot on. I sat in another wheelchair out under the eve so I wouldn't get rained on. And fired 6 times at the blue dot.
#1 and #2 are my 06 Harley Road King w/ sidecar.
#3 is my shelf of gun powders for reloading.
#4 is my Hornady LnL Progressive press and Lyman tumblers.
#5 are my fishing poles - I really like to fish.
#6 is my PVC pipe homemade target stand and envelop target.
#7 is my son's customized (he did all the work on it hiimself) Harley 1200 Sportster dirt bike, which he discovered is far too powerful to be a dirt bike. Now, it's a street bike.
The next pic is a closer-up of the envelop target. Those rubber bullets shoot darn good! I was probably about 15 - 20 ft away, I guess I need to measure it. Behind the target is a wet blue towel. The bullets hit it and fall into a box below.
The next pic is my Ruger SBH .44 Mag.
#1 and #8 are the Ruger Super Blackhawk .44 Mag wihjt Millet Red Dot scope
#2 is a Lee non-caliber-specific (universal) de-priming die (I use it in my
Hornady single stage Classic LnL press to knock out the spent primer and seat a new one.
#3 and #7 are two 44 Spl cases I modified (drilled out the primer hole with a 3/16 inch drill bit) - I used a magic marker to put on a green band so I would NEVER load one of these babies w/ gun powder and a lead bullet - that could mess your whole day up.
#4 and #5 are .44 caliber rubber bullets. They are simply big, hollow rubber bullets. You put them in the case by hand. Bullet #4 is resting bottom up, #5 is right side up.
And finally, here is a pic of 38 and 44 cases, two unmodified and two modified for the rubber bullets.
Case #1 is a .357 case, not modified. I'll use it for my true reloads.
Case #2 is a 38 Spl case modified with a 1/8 inch drill bit. At first I used the 3/16 (like I did for the 44 case) and the primer fell right through. The case in this pic has been drilled with a 9/64 inch bit. I want as much of the power of the primer to pass through and hit the bullet.
Case #3 is a modified 44 Spl case - I drilled out primer hole with 3/16 inch bit. This is one of the cases I used to shoot the 6-shot group you saw in pic #2. Later, I discovered that this case would not shoot a magnum primer, because the 3/16 inch hole is too large - so, I modified some more 44 mag cases w/ a 1/8 inch bit - they worked fine.
Case #4 is a regular .44 Mag case, like those I reload.
It is imperative that you don't not get these cases mixed up.
Never, never shoot a full power loaded round in one of the rubber bullet modified cases.
Didn't mean for this thread to turn into a rubber bullet clinic. I tried to anticipate your questions as I typed this.
Hack
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