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is it safe to put buck shot or slug in low brass hulls?

Anyone tried this with 410? I was toying with the idea of just pouring hot wax in the birdshot.. just as a back up for if I came across a pig or deer up close

I myself had. Have had nothing but problems with tapered hulls. I don't mess with them anymore. I just throw them away. I like the federal standard hulls with the white plastic basewad in them I have no trouble With them

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This is actually pretty darn useful! Thanks for sharing that, brother. We appreciate it

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Do you have a video of making the cutting jig?

It’s called a cut shell, way more easily done

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If they will wait says FE it’s made of iron😂

I saw you used 1200fps , can you use 1350fps target loads ? Or is there to much power for the lee slug . G'day from Australia btw

Did you make that die yourself, have it made, or did you purchase it?

No, don't do this. Slugs can be easily made from fishing stinkers or old wheel weights. Bird shot is hard to make and expensive to buy. Save that bird shot for small game.

Cut shell. It's free minus the ammunition and a knife.

THAT is a well designed shell cutter. You made it modular with an easy to replace blade vise....genius!

Did you get the idea for making the too to cut the crimp off by attending a bris?

Why not just buy a sack of bird shot or a bunch of fishing weights? Bench audio was low, at full volume. I use a self powered speaker, not laptop speakers. Good idea, make shells with simple tools.

Good info I wish you would of showed the crimping. I very never seen it done before but think I could duplicate your process

Audio was really low - I had to turn my system up to almost max... Just a heads up to check that before hand, bro... Great vid!

Why would you cut the crimp end of a shell to load a Slug. Use once fired or new cases, buy some 12 Ga 7/8 ounce Target Wads, and just starr crimp like other reloads. Keep it simple. Casting slugs is an extra step and using Bird Shot expensive. Scrap lead available. Did you mention what type of barrel you used? Nice Pattern. Not likely a smooth bore. Have tried it, but not with a 20 Ga Slug.

Very cool video !!

Damn… less talking more doing…. I was waiting on him to tell his own origin story…..

Ive seen some just cut the sides of thebird shot shell and when fired it breaks off and holds all the bbs and acts as a slug, def less work

Take melted wax pour it on the shot close shell backup makes pretty effective slug

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So the powder charge for birdshot is the same as a slug?

Thanks for the video

Cut shells are easy but require single loading into breech and none in magazine. A good skill to know in a pinch

I do this and I also do this for 00 and #4 buck

The least expensive, and readily available lead I've seen used for bullet making are automotive wheel weights; I suppose they could be used for shotgun slugs as well. An acquaintance showed me this technique of his way back in the mid-'60s. I wasn't aware of it at the time, but I later discovered that people's cars for 10 square blocks around us mysteriously lost all their wheel weights that one summer. 😆 Seriously, salvage yards generally give these things away.

well done

Don’t most people just cut the shell near the bottom and don’t cut it all the way. Just leave a tiny bit still attached and when it fires the whole front of the shell leaves the barrel and acts as a slug

It's a lot easier to cut the top off and fill it with hot wax or Elmer's glue.

You cant shoot slugs out of a shotgun that isnt rifled it wont work properly. And never use bird or buck shot in a rifled shotgun. You will destroy your gun and over time blow up the barrel.

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I was thinking of a cut-shell.

Open the shell pour out the shot into a tiny cast iron skillet ( decorative ). Melt that shot to liquid pour into a 16mm. 12 point socket. Cool and punch out. Install back into shell. Push down the crimp. fire. You dont need to do all that with all those tools. Only work with one shell at a time and the powder will always be right. Imlo.

Need to be carfull using wheel weights in shotgun slugs. They don't stage through the choke like pure lead that the mold desighners engineered it be used

I have to say, I have a one oz Lee drive key mold and I am not impressed with the accuracy. I have tried numerous hull, powder, wad and filler wad combos and only achieved mediocre accuracy. (smooth bore, rifled bore, rifled choke and different choke restrictions). The wad/filler wad definitely affects accuracy! Even the filler wads get stuck in the slug, I have contemplated filling the base of the slugs with a hard light weight substance, maybe a foam filler with an epoxy binder. This "plug" stays in the slug and would stop the wad from getting forced into the hollow base. I have also contemplated filling and gluing the filler wad to the slug, , similar to other manufactures, I think Breneke does that. The filler wad would need to be non-compressible so it didn't end up tweaked and cause accuracy issues. Another note, I followed the Lee process of using the star crimp vs roll crimp, I do want to get a roll crimp tool and try that. As far as smoking the mold, Lee recommends using a butane lighter, I prefer the long BBQ lighters, better reach and less burnt fingers. So many experiments, so little time. LOL

you can also just make them into cut shells by cutting behind the shot in the shell about 40% on one side and 40% on the other so when fired they will break away and the hull shot cup and shot are one package that will really come apart on impact. do at your own discretion and care it is dangerus. low brass only

You could probably weigh the slugs and recast any light ones. Any voids would make them light.

Are you starting with 3 inch shells to get 2 3/4 inch slug rounds?

Shouldn't use short brass for heavy loads, not good for the gun and not good for the shooter.

why not just do cut shells ?

Cut shot shells exist this guy “NO”

Speak louder please. Couldn't hear half of what you were saying.

Should never smack the mold on the screw where you hit it holding the slug, you want to smack towards where the handle pieces come together that spot with wood only because you can bend your mold I did. A old timer told me this and I didn't listen, I actually bent my first mold like yours after making about 200 of those things because mine's stuck more than most I guess? it still works but it's harder to get together. I had to get another one for faster slug making.