Looks like there used to be dueling clubs that used wax bullets, and supposedly, this was a way to train in the event of actually having to demand satisfaction.
the conduct of the affair is carried through as on the “field of honour,” so that when the time comes — if it ever does come — for the scholars to take part in a serious duel they may acquit themselves with credit to themselves and disaster to their adversary — although this latter point is not of much importance.
I did a few Cowboy Fast Draw matches where we used wax .45 bullets fueled by a 209 shotgun primer, and those still hit the steal target with authority, not sure how they were fueled back then, but I’m not volunteering for a reenactment.
Interestingly, this sport of ‘bloodless dueling’ seemed to have established itself in, believe it or not, NYC by the Carnegie Sword and Pistol club.
Looks like the getup we wear out at Fort Knox so we can train soldiers using wax and soap bullets. Technology hasn’t come as far as we think it has.
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In college, I used to pull bullets out of .22 cartridges, then push the cartridges into a plate of melted candle wax to create wax wadcutters (basically, using the cartridge as a cookie cutter and leaving the cutout inside it.) Then I’d shoot them across my dorm room at a commemorative Chicago Bears tray, using the rimfire primer only. It was a lot of fun, but not as quiet as I’d hoped, and since I could have been expelled for possessing the pistol on campus, I didn’t do it for long.
Learned something new today, that’s really cool.
Interesting… And probably STILL painful…
Looks like simunitions gear.
Force-on-force training and stress inoculation.
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This is exceedingly awesome. What can we do to bring this back?
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I have a matched pair of these guns that I bought in South America, a few years ago. They were made in Belgium and they are beautiful (and potentially lethal)
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