How to create a last resort slug out of buckshot

Video would have been enjoyable had it not been for Chris Costa clearly being so in love with hearing his own voice.

This method been around forever, get over yourself.
 
Ya nothing new to me. Never done it but know about. ( carrying ammo for small game and a cut off shell to take a chance deer). Heard about opening the crimp and using hot candle wax poured over the shot too.
 
In my early '60's "NRA Illustrated Shotgun Handbook" is a reprint of a late-'50's/early-'60's test of cut shells using birdshot standard and magnum loads.

The loads were pressure tested by H.P. White Labs. Results were lower pressure, wider velocity variation, and very misshappen patterns at longer range, plus poor sealing resulting in gas/particles hitting shooter's faces.

Also, several times during testing, the the forward part of the shell casing stuck in the chamber preventing the next shell from being chambered. This prompted warnings that such could happen in the forcing cone or choke, thereby creating a bore obstruction.

Most of which has already been mentioned in this thread, BUT the pressure/velocity data was done due to concerns of higher pressure from heavier total payload being moved down-bore, but the shells were so inefficient from poor sealing that this turned out to not be the case.
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interesting. any chance anyone here has that article? i will continue searching for it in the meantime.

more info?
Many years ago P.O.Ackley conducted a test with a .270 pressure gun. He first fired a normal load with the normal 150 grain .277" bullet and recorded pressures.
He then opened the chamber throat and fired the same powder load with 150 grain 7mm bullets.
Then went to .308, .311, .323, and finally .358" 150 grain bullets, all over the same powder charge and noted very little difference in pressure, for the most part the oversize bullets produced lower pressures. He concluded that so long as the chamber neck and throat are large enough to freely accept the round it makes no difference if the bullet is well over bore size.
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and a forum discussion on them, with pics on page 2:
www.go2gbo.com/forums/index.php/topic,178695.0.html
 
Ya I never tried the trick for fear of both a barrel obstruction caused by the case separating then releasing the crimp leaving the hull in side the bore AND. Why would I want to purposely create an incipient case head separation?
 
I gave her a try today in the old single shot 20guage savage. Used winchester trap loads of 7.5 shot. Took a few tries to get the cut in the right place, my first three attempts just splattered shot against an old fridge. Attempt #4 I cut higher up right where I could see the shot and it worked like a charm, punched right through a 20 year old fridge and made a mess of the inside. Next shot went as deep as my pinkie finger into an old log. For my last attempt I tried to find a gopher but had no luck (too late in the year) so I tried to hit a old cedar fence post from 40yards, damn near broke the post in half, perfect hole in the front and a massive exit wound on the backside, post was about 3 inches thick.
I would definately not recommend anyone trying this with a choke!
I`ll try to remember the camera tomorrow and take a pic of the post!
 
The fridge
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Through he freezer
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Only a splatter left for the bottom
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Old log
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Chainsaw autopsy
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about 3" deep
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Old cedar post
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Loki610 said:
yeah I was impressed as well, especially since it was from 30 yards away!
Cant wait till spring now gophers will be fun with cheap slugs!
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You could always just stop being cheap and get into reloading already. :p

That being said though shotshell reloading is a pain compared to brass.
 
MauserMike said:
My costs are slightly lower than that. But I'm getting a top quality target load not the Wal-Mart crap.

Start loading buckshot and slugs, and you'll be saving big time.
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big time in indeed!

just reloaded 100 cast slugs for $25 and 100 cast "00 buck" for $20 + my time + press cost ($65) + casting mold cost ($30 slug + $70 buck)
 
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