11-09-2009, 03:32 PM
|
#21 | | Firearm Aficionado
Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Indiana
Posts: 579
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by pico  | $30 per pound is rediculously high. About 2 years ago I bought a couple of pounds of both lengths of darts for 6 or 7 bucks per pound.
I heard they were used in Vietnam to penetrate deep cover.
If using in some homemade destructive device, it would seem you would get more bang for your buck just using nails and other hardware store metal pieces. | thats not a bad idea
nails would probably do just as much damage. the only im worried about is seeing as how theyre constructed from steel, couldnt they scratch your bore?
| 
|  | |
11-10-2009, 12:30 AM
|
#22 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Jan 2009 Location: Ohio
Posts: 1,685
|
If you pack them in a plastic wadding, it wouldn't be an issue.
| |
| | |
11-10-2009, 02:27 AM
|
#23 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Watertown, WI
Posts: 3,832
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by rifleman14 well ive got the hulls, winchester 209 primers, and a little bit of 700x i think...if not i could use unique...what kinda wad did you use? ive got WAA12 and some remington 1oz ones that i never use. was it with a fold crimp? wouldnt it destrow the mouth of the hull? i guess i might order some and experiment  | I believe they were WAA12, I will check though. I'm not quite sure what type of crimp it was, but it looks like the normal factory crimp. I didn't know there were different types. I did have to seat the wad a bit lower for the flechettes not to interfere with the crimp.
__________________
Now offering FFL transfers for those in SE Wisconsin!
| |
| | |
11-10-2009, 02:29 AM
|
#24 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Sep 2009 Location: Watertown, WI
Posts: 3,832
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by pico | $30 per pound is rediculously high. About 2 years ago I bought a couple of pounds of both lengths of darts for 6 or 7 bucks per pound.
If using in some homemade destructive device, it would seem you would get more bang for your buck just using nails and other hardware store metal pieces. | I agree on both counts... I think I paid $10 a pound.
I don't think they would work well in a homemade destructive device either. They are too light.
__________________
Now offering FFL transfers for those in SE Wisconsin!
| |
| | |
11-11-2009, 05:50 PM
|
#25 | | Firearm Enthusiast
Join Date: Nov 2009 Location: oregon
Posts: 90
|
i saw these at a gun and knife show a few months back. they were at the table next to all the "designer projectiles" (flame throwing, exploding, the two little balls connected by a metal chain, all that silly stuff). you could buy them by themselves for your own loading or they had the three round packs of pre-loaded for 12 bucks. i just thought they were gimmick rounds for playing in the back yard with your shotty, but i guess they could do some damage to a vest tho.
however, at four bucks apiece (i don't haver reloading stuff....yet!), i think i'll stick with the 3 inch 00 buckshot for home defense. if someone were to break in and they did have armor, which would be laughable in my case as i live in a crappy apartment, but if that crack head did manage to obtain body armor, the shot would still put them on their a$$, and if they started to get back up, i think a shot to the face would do the trick. | |
| | |
11-12-2009, 01:22 AM
|
#26 | | Firearm Aficionado
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Southeast Tennessee
Posts: 1,382
|
Back in the old west the Sherif usually had some shotgun shells loaded with dimes in the double barrel shotgun,10 per shell for clearing out saloons,at close range it would work verry well, and he could say keep the change!
| |
| | |
11-12-2009, 07:18 AM
|
#27 | | Firearm Aficionado
Join Date: Apr 2009 Location: Indiana
Posts: 579
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Dakoma | Back in the old west the Sherif usually had some shotgun shells loaded with dimes in the double barrel shotgun,10 per shell for clearing out saloons,at close range it would work verry well, and he could say keep the change! | LOL thats great!!
| |
| | |
11-12-2009, 05:31 PM
|
#28 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Buffalo, Wyo
Posts: 2,901
|
The Box o Truth...
I think did a deal on the dime-packing of shotshells. Its a very real thing and I'm sure whoever was hit directly or even indirectly thought twice about raisin heck again.
__________________
The great object is that every man be armed. Everyone who is able may have a gun.
—Patrick Henry
| |
| | |
11-13-2009, 03:27 AM
|
#29 | | Firearm Aficionado
Join Date: Dec 2008 Location: Southeast Tennessee
Posts: 1,382
|
Yea saw a western movie one time and the Sherif made a coment about loaded with 10 thin dimes,looked it up on the web and shure enough it was a practice and was actually done.Those that went verry far would tumble and fly like a frisbie and up close it would be like a solid slug.
| |
| | |
11-13-2009, 04:09 AM
|
#30 | | Firearm Zealot
Join Date: Oct 2006 Location: Auburn, WA
Posts: 4,274
|
Quote:
Originally Posted by Archetype_wyo | The Box o Truth...
I think did a deal on the dime-packing of shotshells. Its a very real thing and I'm sure whoever was hit directly or even indirectly thought twice about raisin heck again. | Yup: The Box O' Truth #35 - A Load of Dimes Vs. The Box O' Truth - Page 1
And the comment earlier about "clearing a bar" with them doesn't wash... just look at the spread of the dimes. Even across a bar that wouldn't get more than a person or two.
__________________ 
B.S. Chemistry UofWA '09
CETME Owners - Founder
AK-47 - Member
The Mosin Men - Member
KF7GEA
| |
| | |
11-14-2009, 10:02 AM
|
#31 | | Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2009
Posts: 2
|
The darts were used in Viet Nam at fire bases to stop an overrun. They were called beehive rounds and were loaded into a 105 and shot straght into the wire that surrounded the bace. Very nasty
| |
| | 
Posting Rules
| You may not post new threads You may not post replies You may not post attachments You may not edit your posts
HTML code is Off
| | | All times are GMT -5. The time now is 11:15 AM. |
|
