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Kaianuanu
11-17-2011, 06:09 PM
I was thinking about trying to shoot a hot glue bullet out of my 270, but i have a question: will the regular CCI #200 large rifle primer be enough of a charge to shoot the bullet out?
keeki
11-17-2011, 06:20 PM
its gonna be melted glue by the time it leaves the barrel
Kaianuanu
11-17-2011, 06:23 PM
are you saying this from experience? Usually people who do this use a lube on the bullet to avoid this, but ive only seen glue bullets like this done in pistols, never rifles
keeki
11-17-2011, 06:50 PM
no, just thinking outloud i guess. Never heard of shooting glue.
nuclabuyer
11-17-2011, 07:13 PM
well in a pistol we should shoot soap bullets. When you get a real thin bar of soap just push the primed case through and you have a mouse bullet you can shoot inside. Safety and common sense are needed.
sha-ul
11-17-2011, 11:59 PM
Over at the cast boolit forum, they were talking about using a hot glue gun to fill the cavity in a mold with hot glue, trimming off the sprue for a reusable practice gloolit.
dacaur
11-19-2011, 05:43 AM
I would think the hot glue bullet wouldnt have time to melt before leaving the barrel....
wch
11-19-2011, 07:23 AM
Use only a primer as the propellant.
Eric in NC
11-19-2011, 06:06 PM
At the temps hot glue melts at, I predict a mess!
dacaur
11-20-2011, 02:43 AM
I dont think so, I belive in cowboy action shooting they use wax bullets..... and I have seen some peel-n-stick paper pasters you put on the bottom of a bullet that glow so you can see where you are shooting.

Obviously with sustained heat hot glue, wax, and paper will melt/burn, but in the time it takes for it leave the barrel? I can take a sheet of paper and pass it over a candle flame and it doesn't catch fire, even though its in the fire for much longer than a bullet would be exposed to heat coming out of a barrel....
Trent
11-20-2011, 05:54 PM
Wax, hot glue and plastic bullets have been around for a long time. Mostly used in pistol shooting though.

You may need to use a magnum primer to get reliable rounds out of a long barrel. As long as you are careful about where you are shooting you can't hurt anything.
wch
11-22-2011, 09:16 AM
Go to: castboolits.gunloads.com

Do a search-some of these fellas are using hot glue in their molds to obtain and shoot "glue bullets".