45 caliber cases to prevent the primer from ... wax reduces the likelihood of entrapped air pushing out the wax slug. Wax bullets will stop against any hard backstop, such as a piece of plywood ...

38 Colt hollow-point ammo. On the side of the box is “Lubaloy coated Bullet special dry wax lubricant.” It seems to me that most modern ammunition is not coated. Why is it (or was it ...

The bullets, however, were wax. Duelists were dressed like fencers in heavy canvas clothes with wire-and-glass face masks, their pistols augmented with metal hand guards. Even with those ...

Duelists, armed with specially-made pistols and painful (but not deadly) wax bullets, faced off against one another in a mannered test of sidearm skill that encompassed not one but two Olympic Games.

Though shot with a wax plug bullet, what we’d now call a blank, the shot caused injury and Smith died at Georgetown Hospital three days later. His killing set up a highly-anticipated trial ...