I once bought a pack of these light rubber pills and hand-loaded some for range use - only out of curiosity - as they are meant to make it possible to shoot at home, in a basement perhaps, in USA.
- They were not very successful - as although the wee rubber slugs were simple to load into a primed case - when fired the gun would lock-up because the primers would back-out of the brass and lock the slide closed. You can fix this by drilling the primer flash hole to a larger diameter.
So apart from the chore of having to un-jam the gun and extract the spent round each time! - the primer-only powered rubber 'caps' in 9mm were actually capable of penetrating right through hardboard - or of bouncing-back from a solid surface.
In New Zealand as they are only legal to use on an approved Pistol Club Range - they really don't have any purpose here.
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The best tool for home practice - other than 'dry-firing' your real handgun - is to buy a 'Soft-Air' pistol close to your real gun in design. - This is easy if you shoot Glock as there are many different soft-air guns built as 'look-alikes'.
Spring Powered 'SoftAir' Made in Taiwan.
I've got one of these that is a spring operated (magazine fed) hand-cycled single shot - firing 6mm plastic pellets. It's fine for training your muscles and grip - practicing your holster draw, using 'weak-hand' - and to condition yourself to focus on the front sight at all times when shooting. The wee white plastic balls are pretty low powered, re-useable and harmless - as long as you don't aim at electric light bulbs.
When training - it is absolutely critical that you only repeat the correct actions - as repeating any careless wrong move will serve to imprint that sequence as a pattern. - you should start slowly and carefully allowing economy of movement and speed to develop logically. You can think of this 'conditioning' as "muscle memory" if you like - but of course your muscles don't have memories - your brain does!
One Dry Firing Method.
- Don't correct any street dude (moron) that you find presenting an "auto" canted over and looking 'cool' - just let him go for it.
There are Co2 gas-powered soft-air gun versions that cycle like the real thing - but of-course they cost more to buy and to shoot.
The single most serious snag with owning one of these look-alikes is that one day someone might think you are packing the real thing and decide to remove that threat. - Definitely not a good idea to fool around with one of these soft air 'toys' anywhere it might be taken for a real one.
Marty K
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