hi this is jeff of taofledermaus for the last couple years i've been wanting to
see just how far we can effectively shoot a wax slug now we all first heard
about the wax slugs from Barry from Iraq veteran eight eight eight eight eight
using just a birdshot shell you heat up wax and shot pour it back into the
shelling now you have this kind of crude but very simple slug good afternoon
now if later folks and welcome back hey today Jeff OG and guest shooter Matt are
out here today we're going to be shooting some wax slugs for you Jeff
crafted these up special these are precision wax slugs and you've asked for
in the comment section we're going to give them some distance tests we're
going to start these things out at 50 yards then we're going to work our way
up to 75 yards 100 yards all the way out to 200 yards and see if we can hit a big
steel drum out there so these have been handcrafted standard old wax slug style
but then Jeff did a little precision engineering a little German engineering
there on top filing off the the nose of the round so we've got multiple coat
colors here for you so just to make you proud this month other than that let's
get to it we're going to throw them into this Benelli and see what we can do
okay 50 yards whenever you're ready at 50 yards the wax slug is actually pretty
accurate it is tumbling around like crazy it's got the aerodynamics of a
soup can but you can't beat that kind of accuracy for something that is so
primitive and home-brewed you can't shoot you know you can't shoot that's 50
yards with a wax slug dead center that X and that's with a bead sight and no rear
sight looks like ostrich skin boots here those are individual pellets once they
hit the steel on the front side they broke up and started patterning on the
back yep right Angela slug kind of cool hi I'm Matt and I'm going to shoot
another one of the precision wax slugs also at 50 yards same setup if you ever
shot that gun before no okay so there you go first shot no practice shots
you'll give anyone practice shots here so go ahead and load it up there you go
let's show it birth this normal birdshot does at 50 yards as it is a comparison
so wherever you're ready this is the same federal target load we made our wax
slugs out of but look how anemic that shot is and it just barely managed to go
50 yards we're now a 100 yards you're cited to skip 75 and all that other
stuff no open sights or use your no open sights and see where it lands one group
of Americans their imperial system I tell you go ahead all right 100 yards
purple eggs okay 100 yards shot to AV ready a little bit sooner
oh that example musta broken apart oh I went it over it left it was more or less
on done target I think just high that was high again it went a good 200 yards
though yeah I was trying for skipped way down there dude you're still shooting
high Wow what's funny because some of them dropped in ramallah yeah don't go
by the last shot right on then okay oh I think that was very close like I'm
just wasting all these shells hahahaha well we may have figured out what the
effective range of these things are oh
very close a little bit I thought yet I thought I heard a little bit all right
we're going to try a hundred yards we're going to move over to the weather BPA
four five nine with a little red dot sight that bead sight was a little bit
hard to see that barrel or the X on the barrel out of the hundred yards so let's
give it a try with a little bit more precise aiming dot and see if that helps
okay I'm ready just just to the left
there you go yep little to the right
finally 100 yards that was just held right on yeah definitely here we hit oh
he hit it one more left about you hit it that's it yeah seven first shot
is Greg shut a little high high and slightly left Matt low and slightly left
still a hit I think are slightly left is due to the wind out here yeah the winds
going this way pretty good gust actually for you you
can see that once again here I don't think we have any visible pellets down
there yeah just broke it up still mostly energy right to the right to the left
yeah but no okay keep on going oh it's close it's still you can see where the
dust the wood direction of the wind ladies and gentlemen we tell you that
left I think so it's my theory which is never right but okay go ahead they're
all going to the left you left this
that was so short yeah I may have broken up they'll do that these things are just
sitting in the Sun they're not melting because if you keep them the shade they
they don't melt it's a one of the myths okay go ahead
that one land in front of it it could have splattered it with shots till
almost at the bottom of the box I got another box yeah we got these
three that one this way way up about four or five hundred yards yeah
nothing hit that barrel no I heard a weird echo but I don't think I didn't
hear a clunk geez left my god this is like going to camp yeah scattering along
in front of it yep
now Matt is going to take a few shots Matt on the jet Oh les over at shoulder
what that elevation seemed to be right
something bounce onto it yeah I like some shot hit it gets off the road and
hit it but there was a ting down there Oh left so close they held it a little
further tough to judge that wind huh yeah I think the wind is there all left
they're all left I was holding top right corner and they
were still hitting the left in the dirt oh I like way left yeah and long total
crapshoot yeah it's like throwing a bean bag in a corn hole which isn't as bad as
it sounds oh yeah that was something dump it hit it I heard a clunk okay
clunk play my steel there hit the eggs the lay of the eggs yeah 150 yards with
a wax slug and still some little though sprinkles a shot yeah
that's pretty cool good 150 yards they take a lot a lot to get there but only
it is just become get a bus out that night man I do oh here you go that makes
you more manly when you show the night you're trying to have a weapon in the
shot that yeah this is a blade technique for 511 anybody wants to know I've ever
heard of it yep Mike somebody designed like a little
bit Frogger yeah I don't know that would kill you or not all I know is you better
send this barrel to Matt at desecration ranch you can shoot it with a 50 Cal
test with a valid I'll put a will mail it put a couple of stamps right here
yeah because unless it's shot with a 50 Cal it doesn't hold up on YouTube that's
true to get issue with a bid to go okay well
we're at 200 yards now I think it if my math is correct that's better than 100
years that's more than new that's almost twice as much as 100 yards like 20
millimeters isn't yes okay you give it a 10 the-- that thing I'll eat my hat or
something okay go ahead up that went into no short it skipped along and
almost hit it what oh yeah I'm surprised it actually skipped and didn't
disintegrate yeah halfway between them I'm holding way over we might have to
use the long distance 10,000 meters oh that was within 10 feet I bet it's
Attilan still the wind again is blowing that way at every shot seems to be going
that way hold it way right and see what happens
just for the heck of it oh oh that was right of the barrel in high I saw hit
that it is about 150 yards yeah it's short but I okay
I held the dot client right make sure your breathing technique is
good Coriolis effect yeah
further but in the road I can't believe how much the wind effects those it's not
a coincidence yeah nope melted wax lugs yet huh it's 95 plus out here today
ladies and gentlemen 33 and here comes the FAQ oh good jet Oh
f18 shadow okay one more then we'll break out my special long-range gun I
think it hits the the tractor-trailer out in the freeway out there I was
aiming over that Oh okay I've got the I made this I mean I
bought this ball esight are you sure you didn't get it with a free set of
pancakes I might have gotten it with uh with a chicken pot pie it's a plastic
let me should I take it something classic night that I drilled incremental
holes in this is a lot of ghettos you can get got this site this slide here
for reference and it's basically a bully site like on an old World War one style
rifle if you have it backwards though okay that the increments on that go from
200 to 10,000 meters so that should extend our power of our shotgun oh sure
it's like putting up two hundred mile an hour speed ometer in your Volkswagen
it'll make you run faster - yes okay 200 yards with volley sight whenever you're
ready I'm going to keep my truck okay I can get behind this right okay that
went way beyond it I saw it flash way out there about about 400 plus yards ma
maybe 500 yards lowest increment here yeah we're just too close to a range
here it likes it it starts kicking in at about 400 yards it's maybe it's made for
ship-to-ship combat yes over the horizon okay way out there sounds like 400 yards
yeah yeah I think I think you're just beyond it's a range that's true we're
just shooting too close to this site yeah yeah you got to aim like way low I
think yeah okay got one slightly at 250 yards in to the left okay I didn't see
where that one splashed I want to thank you see big clouds of dust kicking up
but
oh that was a low one okay no but no steal oh yeah if there's anything that
make throwing soup cans at a target harder yeah I don't think God my my site
is working very well it's too too close to a range all right one ounce foster
slug winchester super X 1600 feet per second let's see if up how close a
foster slug can get get to that barrel at 200 yards
using this cheap Chinese optic versus the high calibrated German one yeah okay
make sure your site is set four yards this time and not meters it bounced off
the road and hit it okay but that gives me an idea where we are
yeah these things don't carry as much in the wind either no yep a lot closer sort
again to the left left this right at the foot okay do one more just for the road
all right one more if you get finally connected
okay well not much better I mean well okay so it looked like you
grazed it with the foster slug that's what we when we maybe it might have hit
the ground and grazed it took some of the paint off the side to the that
barrel used to be several colors apparently so right now it's just green
yeah but uh yeah I mean I thought the foster slugs to be a little more
consistent and we didn't have just as much problem trying to hit it 200 yards
well we were impressed at what they did with 100 yards and 150 yards yeah yeah
that's pretty good for a homemade slug and that 50 yard initial shot was
dead-on you know that's okay right over here yeah that's a like a blue for some
it comes the Navy to give there's a fair shot at yeah