hi everyone this is jeff of taofledermaus today we're gonna see the
how effective a rifle choke tube is at stabilizing two slugs that have never
been tested through a rifle choke tube the first slug is a fury jacketed
slug by FURY custom bullets -- it is a massive jacketed hollow-point
the second projectile is a 69 caliber minie ball - normally used in black-powder rifles and
was used in the Civil War both of these projectiles require a spin
in order for them to fly straight through the air -- several people ask me if a rifle
choke tube would be adequate to provide enough spin to stabilize these things so
we're using this rifle choke tube I got on eBay I have no idea what brand it is
there's no markings at all on it and I cannot find any information on the
internet about it the rifle choke tube just threads onto the end of a
smoothbore shotgun barrel in a split second the projectile begins
accelerating down the barrel without any spin and when it's near its maximum
velocity finally hits that rifling and begins to spin many people believe that
because there's only a few inches of rifling there in this case there's
actually five inches of rifling and because the projectiles is slamming
violently into the rifling at maximum velocity a rifle choke is just not very
effective at stabilizing a projectile looking down the rifle choke tube we
could see that the rifling turns approximately 1/8 of a turn in that 5
inches actually it's a little more than 1/8 of a turn 8 times 5 is 40 but since
we have just a few degrees more turn I'm pretty sure based on the other specs
I've seen on rifle choke tubes that this is a 1 and 36 inch twist rate in other
words in 36 inches the bullet will make one rotation in order to properly engage
the rifling the projectile must squeeze through the rifling so it must be just a
couple thousandths of an inch larger than the inside diameter of the barrel
or the rifle choke tube in this case since the minie ball is under sized
we'll need to fill that space using a shot cup essentially making this into a
sable round now both of these projectiles are loaded pretty much as I
show right here using an F s12 gas seal and
35 grains of Hutchins longshot let's head out to the private rifle range and
see how these two very unique projectiles function using just a rifle
choke okay test shot rifle choke fury slug and ballistic gel okay I'm ready
Wow best yeah look at that's like a frisbee well I think it's safe to say
that the fury slug functions extremely well through a rifle choke tube has very
good engagement and we had excellent spin now this is good news for people
that don't have access to a fully rifled shotgun and this is excellent news for
fury custom bullets because you're not limited just buyers who just have rifles
shotguns now think about how much a box of Remington a q-tips cost you probably
think these things are expensive but they're selling these things for a
dollar a slug that's a good price okay 730 grain minie ball through the rifle
choke will it be stable okay I'm ready
additional 25% recoil
the 69 caliber very heavy minie ball stabilizes very well using the rifle
choke tube with that one 36 inch twist now many of the black-powder rifles have
a twist rate of one in 72 so if you're a glutton for punishment and you really
really enjoy that heavy recoil a 69 caliber minie ball through a 12-gauge
shotgun using just a rifled choke is an option for you now bear in mind these
are just initial test shots just to see if my pattern load is good and my
wadding systems are good we'll have to work on you know the point of impact as
we progress along but based on these first tests everything looks great
especially the stability and if we have good stability we should have good
accuracy even at much further ranges and we will be posting full videos of each
of these projectiles in the near future as soon as we get them filmed and we'll
dig into a little deeper you know shoot them at 50 yards and shoot them through
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