hello everyone this is jeff of taofledermaus today we're gonna
demonstrate the very modern-looking MAKSNIPE Mk2 shotgun slugs now these
are not available in the United States yet but if you're in Europe you can get
these as a loaded round now we have tested a few other of machs type slugs
and really they're kind of unique because they're not like anything we've
seen in the United States or even out of Russia that's because this companies out
of Lithuania and they definitely have their own unique engineering style I
guess you could say Mac snipe just sent the slugs to us
no wads no shells no powder primers or anything like that
now the slug does have the tried-and-true Diablo shape to it like a
pellet rifle but it also has that big heavy steel core that extends almost
down the entire length of the slug the challenge we often face is trying to
match the performance of a factory loaded shell from another country with
components from the United States like powder
we started off using just 30 grains of longshot for the initial tests yeah just
30 grains and they wanted me to I think load I'm hotter than that but 30 grains
ought to be a good mild load okay I'm ready when you are
1487 that's about the what I wanted 1500 this is the part of the video where we
have to address the vehicles in the background those are three and a half
miles away or 60 160 yards and I I doubt very many people will believe this but a
12-gauge slug will go about as far as an average pro golfer can drive a golf ball
but we'll have to prove that in a video and I think it'll blow people's minds we
return to our regularly scheduled program
1487 now we were able to get a pretty close velocity to max Knight's factory
velocity but we had a lot of problems keeping the plastic tail assembly from
shattering and remember they were recommending 35 grains of long shot and
we were just using 30 so we had to do a little experimenting with different gas
seals and stuff like that ready when you are sixteen thirty sixteen thirty
this was also 30 grains but through a smoothbore shotgun you can see the
pieces of the tail assembly all broken up but remarkably that steel core flew
like a laser beam and was very accurate still which was just blew my mind
but don't worry we finally resolved it shoot that one first 25 grains of long
shot I'm ready I just want to see these things hold together man
the weird thing about this we shot through full rifling but we had almost
no spin on it with this lighter powder load of 25 grains we got about 1,250
feet per second but look at the accuracy and damage that thing does even at that
lower velocity if twenty five grains works in others and this one doesn't
which may very well not work we'll just go with 25 and let them all that way
then we know we're gonna not have any failures that thing take three inch
hills okay 14 to 53 now we were using 30
grains but I added a fiber wadding for additional cushioning between the gas
seal and the slug in this one and it seemed to work out pretty well the slug
just drove right through that ballistic booger ballistic gel whatever you want
to call it just kept on truckin okay 25 grains of longshot stainless steel plate
don't worry about that don't worry about the chronograph we've got good readings
yeah that's the hard part okay I'm ready okay here we go upper left quadrant geez
some things don't mess around
now I'm still scratching my head why that first shot did not engage the
rifling but all the other shots shot through the rifle shotgun we had decent
spin and fairly good accuracy it has to be understood that these were never
designed to be shot through a rifle shotgun in the first place but they
perform pretty well 30 grains long shot
were you aiming this time maybe a little to the left or the other one maybe okay
okay I'm ready Wow
now in this shot we had good rotation but not very good stability a little bit
of waggling around there didn't actually impact dead-on I think the big surprise
to many viewers here is that we didn't get a ricochet the slug came to a dead
stop it's made out of mild steel and is a little bit soft and the stainless
steel is a little bit soft so it just fell to the ground now I was expecting
either of these slugs to penetrate the plate just didn't happen this time now
let's see how these perform through a smoothbore shotgun let play of course
okay I am ready yes sir see if it'll punch through it I'm ready man man
so through a cylinder borer smoothbore shotgun these things perform beautifully
very very stable no spin needed and once again the slug came to a dead stop and
just fell on the ground
in case you were wondering the all these shots were taken at 12 yards or around
11 meters get the whole tip on that one there's a slug just flatten that steel
that that leads tough to penetrate man should we do the backside okay little
bulge little bulge pretty impressive penetration though yeah it's kind of
pretty yeah that flat nose just really curled
that let out him large cavity as compared to yeah yeah yeah interesting I
had a flat knock you for a loop yeah these things don't mess around see
what they do to kibler since you brought that up okay I'm ready holy crap yes sir
d bungee them okay what happened there don't stand behind a bungee yes and
lungi they're not bungee and drywall or not bulletproof we got him right here
believe it all the way through the Kevlar and all the way through Doug he's
got an exit wound back here that
defeated Kevlar it it doesn't surprise because it's steel you know and killer
doesn't do very well with harder metals even even a shot-up vest like that is
gonna stop a lead slug people think it's once you shoot it you know bb's gonna go
through it at 20 but that's not true they're pretty pretty tough and you shot
over and over again but a hard metal like that is gonna go through it I don't
know where Danny's exact point of aim was on the
Kevlar vests but he just picked out an area that hadn't been hit before
and of course that slug had no problem going through that Kevlar vest I think
it's a level 2 vest but it will stop lead slugs all day long that's the first
time these slugs have ever been shot in the United States and we're just happy
to bring you along and show you how we do things and how we resolve problems
when we get these slugs from other countries I really hope that they'll be
able to import these into the United States as either a fully loaded slug or
even a loading component this is some kind of viral marketing campaign it's
got wood so I smooth bore right there NEX
I hope the back that's pretty darn good he said those are very accurate
he had like 1-inch groups at 50 meters or 50 yards I can't remember which one
what 15 yards what we just did is uh yeah and I'm gonna review the high-speed
footage and see if the slug palate behaved it didn't break or anything like
that I think it I think it functioned very well