alright kids show you something really fun okay hit it today on you make it we
shoot it
we have shotgun slugs that are literally figuratively out of this world
We have two shotgun slugs today one called the orbiter and one called the urn
The urn is made out of all steel has a big hollow point on the front and i believe
was made out of a copy machine roller the remarkable thing is all these slugs
are made using a hacksaw a drill press and some files
the orbiter was inspired by the shape of the Apollo command module used during the lunar landings
the workmanship is very impressive on both the slugs even blued afterwards
Evan told me that he state some of my videos on what slugs with have worked in the
past and what haven't worked and used that as the basis for his design
Since the slugs were slightly undersized he used a split sabot design just to fill
the space in the barrel pretty impressive stuff there
Evan and his wife Jessica have a store on facebook and they also have a store
on etsy i have a link to both of these websites in the descriptions where you
can even buy an orbiter slug for yourself as you can see we have five
urn slugs and two orbiters slugs to test
alright so today we're shooting the imported round imported from the foreign
country of Texas to California
these are homemade rounds this one's called the urn as you can see from the
depression in the nose almost big enough to fit grandma's ashes
we're going to a little squirrel hunting today
by the collar of the shirt the collarbone
the first third slug was shot out of a benelli nova which had a rifle choke on
it now the first shot was a little bit high he was even at the eyeball of
rocking this world there the slug continued on passing through Doug and
went into orbit it the slug started tumbling immediately out of the gun but
then it's almost started to stabilize and actually hit nose-first by the time
it hit Doug chat real high
well we're aiming at Rocky"s eye. end up catching doug in the in the collar
skipped off of his vest went through is a nice neutral Nickelback t shirt into
his life . process there around here right through carried a little luck with
him
alright same manufacturer also from Texas this was called the orbiter shape
of a shape of a u.s. spacecraft I guess see how those now that's a shot right in
the big ol I so we're aiming for Rocky's big ol I and his dog lost his helmet
over that one
safety first so we gotta find that thing now up there it is that's the one with
the knurling on it it looks like a little spaceship not be formed one pet
it is you did a great job on still hot
if a little marking on there so we can see if it's turning in
you know
illustrated in the second grade straight there yeah we'll see this is perhaps one
of the most accurate shots I've ever seen anyone make with any type of round
even a factory around using a shotgun with no rear sight
that's pretty incredible Greg totally dotted the I on this shot now since Doug
was wearing a Kevlar best and we were able to recover that slug will be able
to shoot it one more time let's study the external ballistics as you can see
the slug was flying nose-first it had a slight rotation caused by that rifle
choke tube
normally we see a little faster rotation when were using that rifle choke but
still despite the little speed wobble of the tail the slug was very accurate and
you can't argue with the results
Marcus body Oh laughs I can see the whole yep yep let's check out the budget
slow motion and see what happened on that shot this one of course went to the
left a little bit now the slug did go to the left but it did manage to go through
the entire length of that jug which is about 16 or 18 inches the slug still had
enough energy to embed itself into Doug vest and we were using doug is a
backstop at this point just to capture these slugs now looking at the external
ballistics you can see that the slug really wasn't rotating it was flying a
little bit cockeyed and that's probably why it veered off to the left a little
bit
another earnest slug ok anytime a quick look at the external ballistics and we
can see this slug had a lot of problems lot of tumbling and when it's doing
stuff like that you're probably not going to hit anything okay
instead of using the rifle choke we're going to try it without any rifling and
see how that goes
sometimes the rifling will mess things up
that's what I did now we want to see how these would function out of a smoothbore
shotgun without any rifling no-spin stabilization plus Greg's whether the
shotgun has a red dot sight on it making things a little easier to aim then using
the Benelli the good news is the slope was flying nose-first more or less it
was a little cattywampus but that probably explains why it was off by a
couple inches
Bob ok or better yet ready yep ready there anything expect this is the second
orbiter that we had and we try to reproduce the conditions that we use in
the first shot and for whatever reason the slug just blew sideways they
recovered some of the Sabo's that's what they look like
reloaded this one and just came out of Doug know this is the first one but the
accurate when the the eyeball shot recycled orbiter at belly at the belly
bump hit it
this is the slug that hit rocky right in the eye but i use those recycled Sabo's
that we found on the ground and that probably is reason why we didn't have
any rotation and why it was not accurate earn smoothbore okay hit it now that hit
Wow
now this is definitely a very interesting shot because we had terrible
external ballistics yet the shot was very accurate he was aimin at the belly
of the ballistic gummy bear and that slug was flying sideways and despite
that it was still flying straight and landed where he was aimin now looking at
the external ballistics we see the moment before it hit the slug actually
turned a little bit and hit nose-first don't really see a huge amount of
cavitation because these are a solid steel slug they don't expand or anything
like that earned reboot alright hit I think it was very close felt talk a
little more find it of course greg was aiming at the center of this 18-pound
chunk of lead the slug managed to hit very close to the center but we can see
right away that the slug is tumbling end over end right before it impacted let's
take a closer look at the external ballistics and we could see by some
miracle the slug rotated once again and hit nose-first into that plate without
the budget high-speed cameras we would have assumed that was a stable flying
shot so they're still vs led where cloud itself into the plate
Anthony found this thing which is actually got a little bit of damage on
it now it's tough to see with it was going nose first though
yeah it's tough to see on that camera there but it is very slightly deform
it's no longer roundy all the update but back edge is broken now look at the nose
of that thing it's actually a little bit its silvered pushed out of shape now
ya allah . but you can see look at all . actually cast a little low caste a
little- itself no flip it over is it pulls all it pulls out the back
don't even will see that that often is sometimes I'll go through it so what
crazy this thing when itself right around that little then tells back
luckily that's good
cell 33 feet in front of the plate yet
that's cool but that definitely traveled nose-first yeah and . same . impact so
very accurate round again this yet that's good you're better believe it
budget
i just want to show you a project i was planning on filming this is basically
like a wax lug but instead of wax i use rock-hard party it's a it's almost like
a plaster I mix the lead shot with this stuff as you can see i use Peters mold
from shop time to form these into pellets shape had a lot of problems just
getting air pockets out of it getting the shot to actually stack inside their
neatly which is very important after all it's not the wax that makes a wax look
strong enough to be shot it's the array of the the way the balls are actually
stacked in there each one touching each other and distributes the energy evenly
across the slug if you have any voids in there gaps air pockets anything it will
be so weak it'll probably break and it'll definitely be in balance and as
you can see despite my efforts are still a couple air pockets that I couldn't get
out of there
I didn't make the mix a little thinner and had little better results as you can
see here the numbers that you see represent the waiting grams and these
vary from five grams which is no shot at all up to 28 grams now when you're using
a thick binder like this or hot glue or silicone whatever the balls aren't going
to have a tendency to self stack like they would with that really thin hot wax
and even with wax you still have to shake it a little bit to knock out some
of the air bubbles and get the balls to stack in that perfect array now even
though this rock-hard party is much much stronger than wax most of these slugs
just broke apart due to air pockets or this shot wasn't stacked neatly so most
of the slugs broke apart when shot
rock-hard putty it really sings that memories and I didn't dream 10 when you
said chamber I thought you said you didn't grow apart just a little bit
together haha maybe the heavier ones that's a bigger chunk or something I
don't know if I'm going to spend this amount of time making a single slug
remember it has to set for half an hour to it better be able to do something
pretty amazing but these have very low reliability and in the time it took just
to make this one slug I could have made probably 50 wax lugs i hope you enjoyed
this thanks for watching