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How do wax bullets work? Do they not melt from the act of being fired at high speed and heat?
Pour a low charge of black powder in there. You ain't trying to hit a Confederate or deer at 200-yards. It'll still be plenty fast and straight at short range.
When stuffing the wax bullet in, precede it with a wad more like a shotgun wad instead of a flimsy piece of cloth? That would keep the charge from directly bathing your wax in hellfire.
SOURCE: Educated guess from a BP and shotgun nerd.
Ah, so the wad takes the heat and gives the wax the force. Which likely keeps the wax cool enough to survive the flight.
Still going to have wax in your barrel rifling. 🤷🏻♂️ May not matter when you next put lead down the pipe. Hot lead will clean it up in any case!
Heat can only be transferred so fast. So no, only the very surface.
Depends on the exact makeup of the wax, I would guess.