-> If you have a .357 or .38 special, the plastic ammo would be a good
-> choice.  This is reloadable -- you fill a box with newspaper and use
-> that for a backstop, and you can recover and re-use the bullets.
->
-> The only driving force is the primer -- there is no powder.  If you
-> don't want to spring for the plastic cases, you can make your own by
-> drilling the flash hole in standard cases a little larger (and
-> marking the case, so you don't accidentally reload it with a full
-> charge.)
Vern, thanks very much for taking the time to tell me about this.
Actually, I already have this now.  Rubber bullets I got from Midway.
Trouble is, it takes TIME to punch out the old primers and re-prime.
I've got a full-time job, a part-time job, I run a BBS, plus it looks
like I'm about to become newsletter editor for a local pro-2nd group.
Thats not counting family obligations plus trying to have a life.
I was really hoping that next winter I could just throw money at the
problem and buy 22 caps already to go.  Plus, it would justify keeping
my S&W model 18, which barely gets used now.
But you're right, primer powered rubber or plastic bullets are wonderful
_ really beats the hell out of dry-firing.  If you hang a couple of
pieces of corrugated cardboard in front of a nylon tarp, you can skip
the box of newspapers, the cardboard slows them, the tarp stops them,
and they just roll down to the floor.
Regards
John
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