.410 slugs ? What do you use

Jeepguy said:
what would that bullet have weighed migrant hunter?
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I think they were Speer 210 gr, vs 87 gr for a .410 slug.
A shotgun slug works very differently to a bullet. Slugs are hollow based to keep the weight forward, and the "rifling" on them is more for sizing in the bore than spinning them(they don't spin anything like a bullet). A bullet is going to tumble as soon as it gets out of the bore, unless it's hollow based and has a wad attatched to keep it going nose first.
 
migrant hunter said:
I think they were Speer 210 gr, vs 87 gr for a .410 slug.
A shotgun slug works very differently to a bullet. Slugs are hollow based to keep the weight forward, and the "rifling" on them is more for sizing in the bore than spinning them(they don't spin anything like a bullet). A bullet is going to tumble as soon as it gets out of the bore, unless it's hollow based and has a wad attatched to keep it going nose first.
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I have heard of guys loading a hollow base 38 bullet in a shot cup, not sure how well it would work but at least the bullet weight is all up front in the nose. I have 38 swaging dies and can make any weight of slug with the hollow base.....how I just need a press and some wads.........

Most provincial regs will not allow the hunting of big game with a .410 shotgun so its uses are rather limited, but experimenting with something only makes one smarter...........
 
You have to go to a slower burning powder to lob a heavier slug out of a .410. Conventional loads spec very fast burning pistol powders, and this makes over-pressure for heavy slugs.
 
I can see my current level of research is really only scraping the surface here so far. I am looking at a set of " hand tools " for loading the .410 that are mildly similar to the old lee loader. Me thinks finding wads and such will be the fun part along with load data for various sized "shot" charges if i go with unconventional slugs. Well keep up the info and ill keep searching for it wherever I can . Thanks so far folks
 
i was just reading about a fellow screwing felt wads to cast bullets about 180gr to stabilize them. and also same but with a 6-8" piece of cloth for a tail.
 
I have no idea what he used, other than they were store-bought, but our neighbour shot a bull moose with one when I was a kid. Don't know what range, number of shots, etc. But he did get that moose. He wasn't A moose hunter, and saw the bull in a beaver pond about 2 miles from town when he was going out for birds. I don't remember any of the details. Odds are the slugs were CIL, as they were the most popular brand in our neck of the woods.
 
Read an article about a guy in Ohio cutting down 3" brennake slugs to 2-1/2" and re crimping so he could use his 9410 in deer season over there. I would like to find a breneke style 410 bullt mould myself. There is also a you tube video of a guy loading bullets into a shot cup 299 gr I believe
 
Sounds like lots of people trying things just to see what can be done. I think my first step is to make a tool like the lee loader and then go from there.
 
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