hi everyone this is Jeff of TAOFLEDERMAUS Today is a salute to Italy and
we'll be shooting a slug made by a company name while Andy if you're in the
United States is a good chance you've never even heard of these floods before
but if you're in Europe is a pretty good chance you've heard of these or at least
the reputation of these slugs are good friends at ballistic products are now
selling these slugs in the United States so that's good news now they call them
the DGS Vanderbilt slugs DTS standing for dangerous game slug these hard heavy
slugs are very popular with hunters around the world and yes these are heavy
slugs are one and three eighths sounds or 40 grams that's a heavy load and it
should be noted that is the exact same weight of the brenneke black magic slugs
are quite a few European viewers were quick to note that our LBCC both slug
was also manufactured by while Andy in Italy the big thunderbolt slogan the
right doesn't require a sabo because there's no room to put a bow on her it's
already the same diameter as the more of a twelve-gauge shotgun slug has
excellent performance out of a smooth bore shock and but they'll be shootin'
these through our beretta rifled choke tube and you'll notice that the
dimensions of the slug allow proper engagement with the rifling ok we've
loaded these slugs into three and a half inch Magnum shells with a rated velocity
of 1,500 feet per second
let's see if we can make some can lean burn will be shooting this through our
Benelli Nova
excellent stability right out of the barrel she also see a lot of superheated
gases which distort the imagery and that's why I often avoid using high
press you they create huge distortion clouds like that or they produce a lot
of smoke we were able to recover the slug and it was mostly intact really
shows you how hard this LED is they probably mix of antimony with the lid
when they casted and a slug penetrate five of these two by sixes before its
word out the side and I don't think I stacked that boards are a straight-sets
kinda my fault
next we'll have nichols' shot and he'll be shooting at a twenty-pound disc of
LED about inch-and-a-half pic
now it's really important to know that we almost never take any practice shots
we have so few slugs available to actually test that we have to show every
single shot and of course experienced shooters understand that every slug has
its own characteristics its different points of aim for different slugs and
all that so Nick knows where to aim now so that's given one more redemption shut
and see if we can get that sucker right in the center now that's a better shot
right now that slug probably knocked out a pound of led out of that played the
big chunks of LED that it pushed out the back didn't go much further than the box
and but it left a massive hole in this played now imagine that's the skull of a
huge wild boar its gonna drop that bore like a sack of potatoes and to this day
this is the most powerful factory slug we've ever shot politically these are
very similar to the brenneke black magic slugs which also are one and three
eighths talents and also are fired at a loss of 1,500 feet per second and
imagine down the road will be testing the brenneke black magic slugs also but
we definitely see excellent stability with these Thunderbolt slugs and as I've
said before stable slug is going to be a very accurate slog not to this point
we've had good results shouldn't through that rifled choke now in this test
you'll see a failure because of the choke
now in real time it looked like nothing went wrong but in reality what happened
was the body in the plastic one attached to the LED knows actually separated and
of course that plastic tail assembly is very critical that it stays attached
because it acts like the feathers on a badminton birdie right and whether or
not you're shooting with rifle in or not it definitely needs that drag
stabilization to fly straight now really this was a fluke and anomaly but it was
really cool to be able to capture it actually happening of course said that
close range of about 20 yards
it didn't affect the accuracy very much but if you got out there fifty hundred
hundred and fifty yards or so it would definitely throw it off quite a bit
believe what happened was you know as the the slugs going down the barrel
straight without any rifle and then it hits a trifle choked too and it's just
too much of a shock and actually causes the slug to dislodge and of course we
find all this stuff out in hindsight you know he went to indies website and
actually says avoid using a rifle jokers or rifled choke tubes and I'm sure that
they've encountered the same problem do their own testing Kb have one more tests
time there'll be shooting a tener 500 armor plate as you can see it's getting
pretty windy out there
and went to the led plate fine but they are 500 plate was no match for it is
left at it it's pretty easy to understand why these are so popular in
Europe there are powerful accurate slug we only had the one problem with the one
slogan that was because of the rifled choke too and really I I have to accept
the blame for that I just used the wrong equipment but of course you're supposed
to use any there are fully rifled chuck and like slug gun or just a cylinder
bore shotgun but I really appreciate the opportunity to test these out as I've
said before we weren't paid by plastic products to do this demonstration that
has sent us like six of these slugs in we shot him and we wanted to share this
product with you guys I think it's great that this Italian product is now
available in the united states if you're interested please please check out
ballistic products I have a link in the description thanks for watching