9mm Plastic Ammo for TRB practice?

[johnny_22]

Has anyone tried this exclusive ammo?

http://www.sportsmansguide.com/cb/cb.asp?a=235125

Thought it would be good for correcting flinching and Tap Rack Bang drills.

[fatass]

Definetly looks interesting! I know they used to sell these type of things at gun shows but I haven't seen them in ages. They had some that were even re-usable. Essentially they were rubber bullets that you fit into a regular casing, add a primer and you are good to go. You can even shoot them in the house with a revolver (as long as you don't live in city limits) from what I remember.

The ones I saw don't cycle slides though...

[DrMUR]

A long time ago I remember purchasing a bag of wax rounds that fired using an empty case and a primer. They were made to fire in a .357 revolver. I can't remember exactly, but I'm pretty sure it was a pain to clean the firearm after use, heh. The sound was only a little louder than an air rifle.

Pretty nifty, but there wasn't much use for them and it's more fun to hit the range.

[maxicon]

I bought a bunch of Swedish plastic 22 gr ammo some years ago - it was selling dirt cheap ($40 for 864 rounds shipped!), and I'm a sucker for cheap, interesting stuff.

Here's what it looked like:

http://www.geocities.com/pentagon/bunker/4300/plastic.html

This training ammo had a plastic bullet with a steel pellet in the middle. In general, it was worthless. It wouldn't cycle the slide on anything (the ads at the time claimed it would on a Marlin Camp Carbine, but I don't have one to test), and it was too tight in the chamber of my CZ52 9mm conversion barrel, so I had to assist each round into battery. It fed into the chamber fine in other pistols, like a Ruger P95 and CZ75B.

I got 8" groups at 5 yards (I had to pull it in from 10 yards because many didn't hit the paper), and many of the rounds would fragment on leaving the barrel, resulting in a bunch of little jagged holes in the paper. The smoke was stinky, and the flash was full of sparks, with an occasional fireball. The steel pellet would sometimes strike sparks on the range floor if my shooting angle took them there.

I still have most of it, because I can't figure out what to do with it. There's not enough bullet mass to pull with an inertial puller, and the accuracy's not even good enough for a varmint round.

I suppose if the SHTF, it might make a good training round for clearing jams and such. The problem with this is that they're not very realistic jams.

This all-blue round may be better. I have no experience with them. I'd assume the twist rate that works well for 115-147 gr ammo isn't going to give good results with 3.5 gr ammo.

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