Earplug training rounds... Anyone tried them?

[njc110381]

A really strange question, but I recently watched a video of a chap who was loading and shooting earplug rounds to train for snap shooting at close range. It looked like a great idea. Basically you take a cylinder shaped earplug like a 3m classic, roll it as you would to put it in your ear and shove it into a primed case. They expand to fit pretty much any case size up to about .45.

Now this guy was using them in a handgun for safe quick draw training but they will work the same in a rifle. They'll pop a balloon at close range or penetrate paper but not do any real damage to anything else or fly very far. Drawing a live handgun could pose a risk but if you shot yourself with one of these by accident it would be no big deal. I was wondering if it could be adapted for dry firing practice in a DG rifle? Firing at something that would mark when hit, it would give a good idea of your point of impact and you could learn to be quite accurate whilst shooting in a garden or garage. The plugs apparently will tolerate several shots before wearing out so it's cheap too.

I want to try it with my .416! Has anyone else done it?

 

[MMAL]

Never heard of this but I like the idea. Not sure if a primer would have enough power to expel it through a rifle and then any distance at all but I might try it.

 

[njc110381]

I tried it in my .357 Winchester and it made it about 3/4 of the way up the barrel with a small pistol primer! Worst case it may need a grain or two of pistol powder to spice it up a bit.

 

[Black Fly]

Way back in the 60's, I shot a lot of wax bullets from my revolvers. I would melt a bunch of parafin in pie pans. Then lay the sheets of parafin on a board. I would punch primed cases thru the parafin, and shoot. Worked great in my basement. Just had to cleanup before I shot real bullets. Speer used to have plastic bullets for 38 and 44 caliber handguns. Rifle barrels are pretty long and would have a lot of friction for unlubed foam. Might work. Not going to know until you try.
Bfly

 

[njc110381]

Way back in the 60's, I shot a lot of wax bullets from my revolvers. I would melt a bunch of parafin in pie pans. Then lay the sheets of parafin on a board. I would punch primed cases thru the parafin, and shoot. Worked great in my basement. Just had to cleanup before I shot real bullets. Speer used to have plastic bullets for 38 and 44 caliber handguns. Rifle barrels are pretty long and would have a lot of friction for unlubed foam. Might work. Not going to know until you try.
Bfly

I hadn't thought to rub a bit of bullet lube on them first. Maybe some lanolin or something? That would probably help quite a lot.

 

[Ridgewalker]

I have the Speer 38/357 cases and plastic bullets. They work off of a primer and hit pretty hard!
Never heard of using ear plugs. Interesting!