• shalafi@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Pour a low charge of black powder in there. You ain’t trying to hit a Confederate or deer at 200-yards. It’ll still be plenty fast and straight at short range.

    When stuffing the wax bullet in, precede it with a wad more like a shotgun wad instead of a flimsy piece of cloth? That would keep the charge from directly bathing your wax in hellfire.

    SOURCE: Educated guess from a BP and shotgun nerd.

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      1 year ago

      Ah, so the wad takes the heat and gives the wax the force. Which likely keeps the wax cool enough to survive the flight.

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        1 year ago

        Still going to have wax in your barrel rifling. 🤷🏻‍♂️ May not matter when you next put lead down the pipe. Hot lead will clean it up in any case!