Made some dummy rounds for photographs

[august1410]

Like a lot of gun owners, I like to take photos of my guns and share them. Having a revolver makes me want to take pics with a full cylinder but there are safety issues of filling up a cylinder with live rounds and pointing it toward your camera or face.

I have bright orange dummy rounds, but they always look goofy in a nice gun. While loading some .357 this morning, I got the idea to seat six bullets in cases with no powder or primer to use as dummy rounds when photographing my gun.

I keep them separate from my live rounds. FAR from my live rounds. Way far. There can and will be no confusion. After these photos were taken, I marked each case with bright paint so they cannot get mixed in without being noticed.

 

[Bertha]

Great idea they look awesome

 

[Johnthetoolguy]

Now you just need to find a brass tumbler.

 

[august1410]

Now you just need to find a brass tumbler.

In due time....there's a gun show about an hour away this weekend....might drive up and look around.

 

[Zombie_013]

Good idea

 

[SuperMag]

You can heat the primers to cook 'em off, then press 'em in. Next, use a 1/8" drill bit to drill a single hole in the side of each case. This way there's no mistake which rounds are dummies. Take care to not dimple the opposite side of the case with the drill's point.

You rotate the rounds so the holes you drilled in the cases are out of camera view. And when loaded in a cylinder, they all look live and ready for action.

 

[GunCollector38]

That looks awesome! What model S&W is that? I have the model 28-2 the "Highway Patrolman" I love that gun!

 

[august1410]

That looks awesome! What model S&W is that? I have the model 28-2 the "Highway Patrolman" I love that gun!

Mine's a 27-2. Just a glossier version of yours. Can't go wrong with either the 27 or the 28!

 

[Mooseman]

Great idea. I like it a lot.

 

[VWTurbo]

It would be cool if you could pull the "primer" out of some snap caps and you could get double duty out of those. In the red one i have it just looks like silicone, not sure it is that simple, but since we are throwing around suggestions, there is mine

 

[Mooseman]

I will take six in 44 Mag, with primers. How much?

 

[kalister1]

I make those for all the different bullets(357: Gr, Gr, etc....) I load into the same case. That makes it easy to set the bullet seat die.

 

[jawn]

Would look even cooler with hollow points.

 

[august1410]

I make those for all the different bullets(357: Gr, Gr, etc....) I load into the same case. That makes it easy to set the bullet seat die.

That's where I got the idea from. I was using one or two to set the die and thought it would be a shame to let them go to waste.