I was reloading some .357 wednesday night and found one of the SWC's was a bit malformed. Don't know if it was because I was on my 3rd JD and coke, or if it was a moment of stupidity, but I loaded the shell without gunpowder.
Hold on... slow your roll.
I remember reading something years upon years ago how you can use any starch based combustible powder in place of gun powder; but never tried it. So in place of the gun powder, I put baby powder. Standard small pistol magnum primer, equivalent charge of baby powder as gun powder, seated the bullet, light crimp, followed by a dot of white out on the top of the bullet and on the primer.
Last night, I shot as I normally do, and loaded this "BP" round as my last shot; fully expecting to get a SWC stuck in my barrel. Lo and behold, it shot with the normal recoil and even hit was I was aiming at.... sorta. Was aiming at the bulls eye but hit the 9 ring at 15 yards with a 4 3/4" bbl.
No poof of white powder, just bang, flash, and recoil. Go figure.....
Hold on... slow your roll.
I remember reading something years upon years ago how you can use any starch based combustible powder in place of gun powder; but never tried it. So in place of the gun powder, I put baby powder. Standard small pistol magnum primer, equivalent charge of baby powder as gun powder, seated the bullet, light crimp, followed by a dot of white out on the top of the bullet and on the primer.
Last night, I shot as I normally do, and loaded this "BP" round as my last shot; fully expecting to get a SWC stuck in my barrel. Lo and behold, it shot with the normal recoil and even hit was I was aiming at.... sorta. Was aiming at the bulls eye but hit the 9 ring at 15 yards with a 4 3/4" bbl.
No poof of white powder, just bang, flash, and recoil. Go figure.....
WTH??? Jonesy... did you get the ban hammer? Your rep power went from 3 to ZERO.