in my last video I showed this shot of a wax slug striking the knee of
Chacote while many people probably fixated only on the impact what is the really
cool thing that I like looking at is the external ballistics which is the flight
from the gun barrel to the target that's where all the really cool stuff really
happens so basically what happened here is I inadvertently create a stabilized
wax look since wax looks normally tumble randomly through the air most shotgun
shells use a one-piece plastic wadding such as this
it has a gas piston shock absorber and the shot cup which holds the actual shot
however federal does things differently and uses a two-piece wanting the bottom
piece is the gas piston and has a little stem that acts as the shock absorbers
kind of crushes under the g-shock when you shoot it a shot cup is relatively
simple for slits on it that caused the pedals to open up and act like a speed
brake while the shot continues flying on and normally a whack slug will release
from the shot cut the moment it leaves the barrel to now the pedals did open up
and act like speed brakes but they also stabilize the slug because I got the
mixture probably too hot and that steel shot probably used to the plastic shot
cup it just never released normally to achieve drag stabilization you want to
drag way behind the center of gravity but here it's almost on the center of
gravity so looking at this you would almost expect the selected to flip
around take the path of least resistance but basically what we're seeing here is
almost like watching a badminton birdie flying at supersonic speeds backwards
ok a printer hit
then on target think that you see the whole record of you that's perfect
dr. now it's one thing to have one freak occurrence and you can kind dismiss that
as a freak occurrence but to be able to repeat it over and over again is a
different story for the test i made two different batches I mean a set of orange
slugs and blue slugs I wasn't sure which would show up better on camera
the drag stabilization phenomenon only occurred with the blue slugs now i have
to say their stability of flight is the remarkable thing here it doesn't enhance
anything though the last thing you want is to slow down the slug you have four
giant speed brakes basically quadrupling the profile of the slug and that's not
really what you want in a shotgun slug
your head now here mike is using one of the orange slugs it's separated from the
shot cup just fine
however we can see it tumbling end over end quite a bit during flight
however it was still pretty accurate and that Nokia phone is a pretty small
target especially considering my only shot the gun about five times prior to
this a tumbling slug just looks wrong and a lot of people think you can
improve upon that but it's accurate and that's what you want now instead of an
orange like I gave Mike a blue slug here not knowing there is any difference
between the two he had no problem hitting at the first time with the
orange slug but the blue slug give us some problems negative drill sergeant
one more time he got this
sure the slug is flying nose-first and you would think that would make this
look more accurate but in essence what we've done is added more complexities to
the equation so if the little flaps aren't absolutely perfect everything
isn't perfectly balanced
well all those complexities can work against you
I think it's safe to say that this . mike is as frustrated as a hula dancer
in a forest fire
going i think one of their breaking apart so now it with travels on this
show we see something a little different going on the shot cut this time state
attached to the slug but only for about 15 yards in it released and of course
that doesn't help the accuracy at all it is kind of interesting to see how fast
that shot cup is bouncing off that piece of wood probably traveling about 600
feet per second but this is a really spooky shot because that slug appears to
be flying stable even without the drag stabilization at that point so Mike was
completely frustrated so we're going to let Nick shoot this time and i gave him
an orange slug without knowing it clean so our conclusion is that it's not the
round is the shooter hit the shot wasn't late on that added next guys a grand
story so no it wasn't the shooter it was the slug after all might come on
and this shot is a virtual mirror image of Mike shot using the orange slug and
once again the orange slug is tumbling along nothing to stabilize that no spin
no pins know nothing and it's relatively accurate the wax luck is about as crude
as you could possibly get as far as improvised slugs go
you don't need a mold you just heat up wax and shot and dumped it into the
shell that's all you do now including the shell a wax-like costs about
twenty-five cents to make yeah you can use epoxy zor whatever intern at
twenty-five cents log into a dollar slug real quick
wax is extremely cheap often free if you still your kids crayons it doesn't put
off a bunch of nasty fumes like epoxy is wood and you can create giant batches of
whack slugs without worrying about the wax permanently setting up on you like
epoxy would
now from a technical standpoint it is pretty cool that I accidentally created
some stabilized wax slugs but in reality the benefits were about as useful as a
pint of bourbon and a Shriners convention didn't make the slugs better
didn't make them faster didn't make a more accurate it added no benefit at all
now be proved anything we proved that keeping things simple and keeping things
cheap is often the best way to go now the proof is that every single orange
slug that we shot landed on target even though is tumbling around and look very
awkward they were still superior to this thanks for watching