Lee 1oz slug mold

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Does anyone have experience with these? I just cast a few dozen up last night and the mold worked VERY well. Filled out better than any other mold I've used. The load data doesn't specify hulls and seems to be pretty hot. Thoughts?

Jeremy
 
I've made a few in the past. I used some federal birdshot hulls i had. Worked fine for me. I was bullseyeing at 50' through my old 870. Was impressed how well they worked.
 
Win AA hulls, Lightening wads cut to size, coulple nitro cards, 32.5grn HS-6

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I have cast and shot hundreds of these guys and I can't remember the exact weight or grains of powder but I use a .40 S&W casing full of Hogedon tite wad powder. Kicks like a Horse but shoots nice and straight. Hit the man sized gong at 100 yards every time.
Hulls are whatever I have found kicking around and wads are the Brown winchester ones (they were cheapest) And Winchester Shot gun primers.

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Well I cast up about 50 of them and loaded them over 25gr of 800x (Because I have a keg of it.). Will test then out this week and see how they shoot!
 
I have cast a few hundred of these and shot about 50. I REALLY enjoy them. Might be my favorite mold for casting and shooting. They hit like a ton of bricks and don't cost a ton to make.

I shot them out of a smooth bore 870 with a bead sight. Useable accuracy at 25 yards so I could shoot watermelons and 2L pop bottles. I haven't tried it further yet. I have a rifled barrel I'm going to try them in too. At a later date.

Highly recommended for fun shooting
 
Makes me want to blow the dust of my similar moulds. I made some slugs years ago, and was surprised how easy it was. I have a bunch of real soft lead handy, but sadly have never reloaded shotgun before. I am now tempted, even though my shotgun is not rifled for slugs. Everyone here makes it sounds like a lot of fun.
 
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Makes me want to blow the dust of my similar moulds. I made some slugs years ago, and was surprised how easy it was. I have a bunch of real soft lead handy, but sadly have never reloaded shotgun before. I am now tempted, even though my shotgun is not rifled for slugs. Everyone here makes it sounds like a lot of fun.
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I had no rifling. But they seemed pretty accurate. I wouldn't run it out to 100 with some kind of real sights. You could probably reload shotgun without an actual press if you had something to crimp the rounds. Probably don't even need that.

I'd love to try the Lyman slug too. Looks like a giant pellet gun pellet lol
 
If you are happy with the 1 oz mold then if you get a chance buy the 7/8 oz mold and you will retire the 1 oz mold to the back of the shelf. 1 oz was 10 shots pie plate accuracy at 25 yards, 7/8 oz one ragged hole with one flyer 1 inch outside the hole. I have tried the 1 oz in 4 different smooth bores and one rifled barrel and not even close to the 7/8 oz.

Wholesale had them on for 8 bucks clearance a couple of weeks ago so I picked up 2 extra molds.
 
Tried both the 7/8 and 1 oz Lee slugs, they were ok until tried the Lyman 525 gr sabot slug in a rifled barrel. All I can say is wow, these are great. Fun to cast, very accurate for me but I have only tried to 100 yards.
 
I have heard that the weight distribution on the 7/8 lee is better than the 1oz. I bought the mold off Amazon and they didn't have the 7/8 available. I ll probably go with the Lyman next. Is 525gr a 1-1/8oz slug? Sounds like a freight train
 
The Lyman sabot slug is 525 grains or 1.2 ounces and that slug is unreal, the pellet design is very aerodynamic as demonstrated by large but clean holes in my targets, so, no wobble as the holes are very nice. I could see it being a good hunting round as I've shot 10-15 rounds in a pie plate size area at 100 yards. Just a matter of getting the right hull, wad, powder combo for your rifled barrel.
 
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