When they were made commercially this was done by hand, usually involving female fingers. The first effective modern shotgun slug was introduced by wilhelm brenneke in 1898, and his design remains in use today. Feb, 20 this is the confederate made bullet to be used in 12 guage shotguns that were brought to muster by many confederate recruits. With a wider stream, a shotgun is like using a can. Available in 12gauge one ounce slug and 20gauge 34 ounce slugs, both with a muzzle velocity of 1,600 fps. Brennekes black magic and gold slugs are, like the remington buckhammer, fullbore slugs with attached plastic wads but no sabot sleeves.
Dangerous game slugs are the best performing slug for almost every shotgun and barrel combination. Not only are they effective, but theyre cheap and hardy too. Loading your slug shells is, perhaps, the easiest form of reloading known to man. Singleunit wadslug construction for fast, easy loading.
Watch 3d printed shotgun slugs blow away their targets wired. Most shotgun slugs are designed to be fired through a cylinder bore or. The newest addition to that line is the 12 gauge extreme performance selfdefense round. Paper patched or lubricated lead bullets can be swaged in two basic styles, the swc shoulder style shown here, and the smooth ogive style shown below. There are two different designs of shotgun slugs, saboted and rifled. Brown bears and slugs page 6 alaska outdoors forums. Shotgun slugs for handloading ballistic products inc. Beat garden slugs with sandpaper mother earth news. Buffalo hunters used this type of bullet to hunt millions of buffalos. Beat garden slugs with sandpaper protect your garden from slugs by edging your raised beds with rough silicon carbide sheets. The press head is threaded for 112 by 12 thread per inch, and the ram is threaded for 1inch by 12 tpi. Patched with cheap paper it held center of mass to 7075 yards but occasionally failed to stabilize. Always in the forefront of deer slug technology, we redesigned our 12gauge slugger rifled slug for a 25% improvement in accuracy. The load im using lyman sabot slug is federal top gun shells, aa12 wad and 29 grains universal.
But yes, a good shotgun slug for defense against bears works well and my mossberg marine 12, with ghost ring sights and brenneke 12 gauge magnum slugs is what id use and a handgun as backup cause i just feel naked without one in the woods. Brenneke usa magnum ammunition 20 gauge 3 1 oz silver rifled slug. He is right next door from the stones river battlefield. The shotgun slug combination provides a legal, if shorter range alternative. Exotic rounds like these often have a largerthanlife reputation based on how they look. The body is brown in colour, striped lengthwise and covered in tiny gold spots.
However the most accurate slug is a good old fashioned round ball paper patched and sat on the upturned base of a plastic wad fired from a cylinder bore. Here is an easy method for creating accurate militarystyle cartridge for a brown bess or. Their 2 34 12 gauge slug weighs 1 14 ounce, and their 3 magnum 20 gauge slug weighs a full 1 ounce. A modern shotgun slug is a heavy projectile made of lead, copper, or other material and fired from a shotgun. The synthesis of classic and modern metal processing techniques is very suitable for making nonconventional slugs of materials and shapes previously unseen in the hunting ammunition industry. If the shorter barrel is a smooth bore you can shoot slugs through both barrels and it will be personal preference or which ever is the most accurate using foster type slugs, or you could buy a rifled choke tube and shoot sabots through the longer barrel. Most impressive was the bxs 12 gauge shotgun slug because i hit a fairly small steel target with it at 200 yards. The firearm was a browning maxus semiautomatic 12 gauge shotgun with a 22. Some tumbled but most were straight through and through. The shot cups fit the slugs very snugly and the slugs protrude just enough to ensure a perfect star crimp no need or desire for a roll crimp. Casting, patching and loading their paper patch bullets in the hunting field. The best load your own that i have used is, hands down, the bpi thug slug.
A rifled slug, however, looks more like a regular shotgun shell. Then got a really cheap supply of 70 caliber lead balls and never looked back. Or, the art of shooting flying, a poem written in 1727, a. Here is some vintage 12 gauge ammo i found the other day. Brenneke usa magnum ammunition 410 bore 3 14 oz silver rifled slu. The two slugs youll hear about are sabot and rifled. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. Paper patch bullets were once the most popular type of bullets in the 1800s. Take 2 sheets of rectangular paper and roll them separately lengthwise. It is common on agricultural land and can do serious damage to crops. I picked this one up today from larry hicklen in murfreesboro. Before shotgun shells that were made from plastic were introduced in 1960, paper had been the most popular material for making shotgun shells. Half dollar size expansion, 82% weight retention, flatter. Still have some that i need to shoot at something sometime.
The d dupleks slug ammunition production process consists of many stages, from slug body lathemachining and thermal treatment to their. Common keeled slug tandonia budapestensis this is the most common of the keeled slugs. How to load a black powder cartridge for a brown bess or. Rio 12 gauge ammunition rsl12 234 118oz star slug 1410fps 250 rounds free shipping with buyers club. The tarhunt neotec copper slug is a premium full performance, bore size slug, and is on track to be largest diameter, heaviest, fastest, full expanding of all the copper slugs in the industry. It is relatively small reaching around 6cm at maturity. The northwest trade gun, fusil, fowling piece, musket, or shotgun, whether flintlock or percussion, have certain things in common.
Three inch chambers with 1 14 inch forcing cones, open sights. Let me know what you guys think of using these shells. Slugs are designed for hunting large game, selfdefense, and other uses. Load development for the shotgun is, overall, easier than for a rifle shooting a patched ball, but attention to some principles will yield better results. How to make a paper shotgun papercraft wonderhowto.
The target was roughly the size of a whitetail deers kill zone, and i had no trouble clobbering it. At the 2017 shot show range day, i got to fire a few rounds of brownings new ammo. Nonexplosive slugs are also used for crowd control. The all new 20ga schrifle neotec copper 365 grains at 1800fps will be stable thru all known 20 gauge twist rates.
The shotgunslug combination provides a legal, if shorter range alternative. Brown bears grizzly have a much thicker skull than a black bear, they as well as polar bears could deflect most shotgun slugs. There are at least 20 states that have restrictions of this kind. The d dupleks slug ammunition production process consists of many stages, from slug body lathemachining and thermal treatment to their encasing in plastics. Awesome vintage paper 12 gauge shotgun slugs youtube. Both require a great deal of luck to hit where i aim. In this video of 3 parts you are shown how to make a shot gun out of simple paper.
Watch 3d printed shotgun slugs blow away their targets now a hobbyist from tennessee has created 3d printed shotgun slugs. One third the wellturned shot superior must arise, and overcome the nitrous dust, which, dryd and seasond in the ovens heat, has stood in closemouthed jarr the dampless. You have to roll your own but with the price of slugs its a. Mar 23, 2017 even nongun people have heard about bolo rounds. Those soft lead slugs have a tendency to flatten out and glance off thick bones at steep angles. New browning bxs polymertipped copper shotgun slugs. Lethal downrange energy is combined with stunning accuracy even in smoothbores. Note that the perfect wad for these 1oz slugs is the ballistic products pt1205. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. I was just wondering if it would be a good or bad idea to use these. Winchester vintage hunting shell boxes for sale ebay. Jul 08, 2012 here is some vintage 12 gauge ammo i found the other day.
Flea market ammo score collecting paper shotgun shells duration. Its underside is orange and it has orange body mucus. To do its job, a projectile must both make contact with the target and hit the target in a critical spot. Brenneke rifled slugs still use felt and fiber wads, and are suitable for use in smooth or rifled shotgun barrels.
They are extremely versatile, efficient, and enjoyable guns. Paper patched bullets a blast from the past sporting. Depending upon your load and your hull length, you may also want a card stack under the wad. How does the accuracy of a modern shotgun firing slugs. Nearly all slugs are sabots and require a rifled shotgun barrel or rifled choke. Shooting shotgun slugs in a smoothbore musket nesslers. I just came across a box of old shotgun shells and they are in almost brand new shape. Sep 12, 2019 having fired both about the same but thats me.
Yes, a rifled barrel is needed for true precision, but we all know a smooth bore shotgun combined with slugs is going to be able to hit a paper plate 9 times out of 10 at 100 yards. A standard chamber can usually be made to shoot paper patched ammo fairly well, but the loading procedure requires that you adhere to some very narrow guidelines to make it work. I lined up the bead in the center of the rib and could hit a paper plate consistently at 6070 yds. Jan, 2015 before shotgun shells that were made from plastic were introduced in 1960, paper had been the most popular material for making shotgun shells. Patched the daylights outta em with paper towels from work, and used a goodly amount of more paper wadding. I had a chance to shoot the 12gauge bxs slugs at the shot show, and found them to be more than accurate enough for any deer or bear hunting within sensible shotgun range, and with tolerable recoil levels. The gun is a lanber ou, 21 inch barrels both rifled. Bolo rounds look really wicked and we can image how. Best factory slug that i have used is the brenneke black magic.
A projectile machined out of solid brass, upon entering a soft target it breaks into 6 segments to create a devastating set of wound. It will only accept paper patched ammunition, a grease grooved round will not chamber. Sabot slugs come in a packing, wad or case made of paper, plastic or other materials to help give the slug spin. I say most because there are some modern sabot slugs that have much better penetration through bone. Muskets got a reputation for inaccuracy for the following reasons imho. However, the lead bullets i make for patching are designed to fit the diameter of the bore, not the groove, which means the paper patch is at least partly cut. The megamite is especially useful for large bore calibers from. There can be a substantial difference where a double shotgun will place slugs of different brands or types and unless you have sights and on paper you are just fooling. Bullets can be swaged as round balls, smooth sided for dry film dip or spray lube, hollow or cup base, heel or flat base. Paper patched bullets are made by winding a piece of paper, usually twice, around a lead bullet. Then he sent them to his friend, who took the slugs and blasted away. Of which to that it only takes once for things to go very bad. May 03, 20 watch 3d printed shotgun slugs blow away their targets now a hobbyist from tennessee has created 3d printed shotgun slugs.
Is a 12 gauge shotgun slug capable of penetrating a bear. The lightfield commander ids plus was designed as a high velocity, extremely stable, extended range sabot slug for use in modern rifled barrel shotguns. Jun 11, 20 brown bears grizzly have a much thicker skull than a black bear, they as well as polar bears could deflect most shotgun slugs. One reason hunters use slugs is to hunt deer in states that ban the use of rifles andor buckshot ammo. The slug itself has spiraled grooves the rifling that enable the slug to spin as it exits the barrel. I can get both on silhouette paper at 25 yards in a pieplate size group. Im looking for one load that will shoot both barrels together at about 75 to 100 yards. Lee key drive slugs in my muzzle loading double the.
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