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Seems like an awful lot of work to make the mold and then unscrew the bolt after every casting when for about $20 you can get one that is pre-made.
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If you would take the time to watch the video you would understand that the country they live in slugs are illegal as is most handloading equipment.
I'd say that those slugs look more dangerous than factory......and for that I like 'em...If you don't like 'em don't shoot 'em....Is it any more dangerous than one manufactured under tight tolerances? Most likely, yes.
Seems like an awful lot of work to make the mold and then unscrew the bolt after every casting when for about $20 you can get one that is pre-made.
Knowing how to make slugs when all you have is birdshot......=PricelessSlugs go for about .60-75 a piece, not worth killing yourself over doing it wrong.
You could do it easier if you just picked up a bunch of round chunks of metal (think small, maybe fishing weights), or solid pipe plugs from home depot and loaded them in there and just sealed them with wax. Either way, I would not do this unless it was a last resort (read zombies). Slugs go for about .60-75 a piece, not worth killing yourself over doing it wrong.
The beauty here is the weight of the slug is right for the load of the shell with no tools needed, that and knowing how to do something is priceless.
When I was in the Army, a guy from Lusiana told me of a trick called "ringing the shot". You cut almost all the way through the shell at about the base of the wad, as a result the case breaks at the cut holding the wad together until it hits the target. Basically a poor man's 12guage glaser slug. The nice thing of this is that it doesn't appear as a slug but just another bird shot while hunting birds, just in case a deer came along.