Headed down another Rabbit hole. Shotgun slugs!

[Missionary]

You an also try a "paper cylinder" on the inside of the wad to gain diameter.
But our goal is to be about .005 over bore but that also depends how fat the chamber throat is as some are real fat. A round ball will easily swage down unless it is cast of water dropped WW or Linetype
We use range scrap for our RBs. Never recovered one and never lost a corn cruncher hit by one.
A .57 RB of range scrap will go through two deer standing side x side. A very foggy morning near the river bottoms at 30 yards.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I have a .735 Lyman ball mold.

CW

 

[RBHarter]

I have a .690 and a couple of old Winchesters I can borrow that happen to be that dia at the muzzle ...

I'm interested in this again , Ms has an old JC Higgins with that beer can looking brake on it . The barrel is straight cylinder behind that . Some years ago I considered some 2" RB and 6 pellet 00B like the baby Aguila shells for porch bear control .

 

[Tomme boy]

I have 2 extra barrels for my 870. A smooth bore rifle sight that is extremely accurate with 2 3/4" Winchester fosters. I just picked up this cantilevered scope barrel a few months back. I can't see the rifled sights anymore so i got the other barrel.

 

[Missionary]

Rifled barrels shoot RB very accurately. Think of a rifled muzzle loader with a patched RB.
With our rifled barrels we run the Range scrap balls .005 over groove so they get a very good grip. But some chambers may not take that fat a RB so go with as fat as you can and still have a functioning shotgun.

 

[Rally]

Tomme Boy,
Mine drops at .725 in SOWW and .727 COWW with some tin, both were lubed with Bens Red + BW.
I'm working on a project barrel I picked up at a garage sale last summer. It was a 28" FC barrel with a bulge in it, from shooting steel shot, I'm guessing. Now it is 21" and will be wearing some sights off a Rem 700 BDL, or that's the plan. I like the design of the slug, thinking deep penetration, car door/ close range bear/ canoe gun.

 

[Rick]

Lee 12 gauge . . .



Lyman 12 gauge . . .

 

[Winelover]

I have 2 extra barrels for my 870. A smooth bore rifle sight that is extremely accurate with 2 3/4" Winchester fosters. I just picked up this cantilevered scope barrel a few months back. I can't see the rifled sights anymore so i got the other barrel.

I ditched the rifle type sights on my 1100 smooth bore slug barrel years ago. Took a set of Millet one inch rings that were made for attaching a scope to a vent rib. Machined the corresponding angle, into the base of the rings, that the existing sight ramp had. Replaced the setscrews with button heads, after drilling and tapping the side of the sight ramp. Modified type of scout set up. Used an Armson OEG (now discontinued) red dot.............. an Ultra-dot would also work.

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

I picked up a Lyman .678” round ball mold.

I’m gonna try these cloth patched, with a cut down base(petals removed), out of my full choke gun.

If I fail to get any decent accuracy, I’ll consider buying another barrel for my 1960’s vintage 870 Wingmaster.

There are some shotgun deer hunting areas on some of the islands near me that I would like to hunt.

I have a .735

 

[fiver]

heat, heat, heat, and more heat.

little known fact, clay buster makes a wad especially for slugs.
it's called the slug wad.

 

[Maven]

I have a .735

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Have you seen this thread on the CB site? https://castboolits.gunloads.com/sh...ting-Longbow%92s-0-740%94-RB%92s-at-100-yards

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Second mold showed up today!!!


This version screws to the wad column. So thats why ya see the pin in the ce ter of the spure plate. It comes with two ce ter pins. One for a reg HP and one for a segmented HP thats designed to fragment.
CW

 

[popper]

CW you need a new sweatshirt - that one is UGLY. And some HiTek mould release. Just brushed into the cavity or on the pin.

 

[fiver]

what do you do with the shell holders?

 

[Brad]

what do you do with the shell holders?

Hold shells?

 

[CWLONGSHOT]

Just came today with mold. I use so many #10's I needed extra.

 

[fiver]

okay.
I've seen those molds before, and was sitting here like WTH?,,,, this must be something new.
I just couldn't figure out how they fit in anywhere....LOL.

 

[Brad]

Use so many? How many presses do you have set up?

 

[fiver]

O-frames, swaging, shot shell, or Dillon?
and by set up do you mean under the bench, or formally bolted down?