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404 lat 44 asked to people who are
completely familiar with shotguns and
shotgun slugs whether or not a foster
slug fired out of a smoothbore shotgun
actually spins or not and you'll
probably get two different answers i
recently posed this question on a very
active Facebook group called shotgun
nation and the answers that people gave
me were all over the place no they don't
fit yes they do spend and some people
actually start citing certain websites
now one website called box of truth
actually said that
no the group's do not make him spend it
all and in fact it's kind of a marketing
scam to make customers feel like his
slugs would spin and even on field and
stream they titled this rifled slugs
aren't really rifle and they actually
came to this conclusion based on a slug
that they found where the ribs were all
smashed and I guess since they're called
veins they're assuming that the air
flowing over the slug is going to make
them spin but of course the veins would
have no effect simply because of the
shock wave at the nose so fosters slug
is going to spin it would have to occur
while I was traveling down the barrels
with some simple markings on the slugs
and a high-speed camera let's find out
what's really going on
you lost a foot slugs that actually spin
in the air we're going to find out today
we've got one painted here with some
patented top-sider mouse racing stripes
and we're going to be sending it's
really smooth bar standard all federal
foster cycle plug so I let's see if it
spins as if it was it coming out of a
rifle deport ok anytime you're ready
this is filled at 8800 frames per second
with the crows high-speed camera the
slug is rotating but ever so slightly
the slug is rotating at clockwise
direction and that matches the angles of
the ribs now from the time it enters the
frame and fill it hit it only made one
half of a revolution is that amount of
spin enough to really stabilize it
ok hit all right you can see your razor
not out there and see the laser dot
broke your block this shot i've set the
focus ahead of the target so we can get
a better view of the slug flying through
the air again the slug is rotating in a
clockwise direction and in this amount
of space that only rotated 90 degrees or
one quarter of a turn if there was a
foster slug that had no ribs on it would
look like and how would a fly
well we're able to show you that now
denver from Australia send us some plugs
that are essentially foster slugs
without any rifling at all on them
they're just smooth and his slug simply
relies on drag stabilization a very nose
heavy design
let's see how this flood performs the
Denver piledriver from Australia
it's basically an unrivaled plug it will
shoot it
we got 23 grains of hopkins munchkins
longshot will feel that perform it right
people you know these are going to be in
it although a cab ready we go on the
leaders
that was to have a good kick yeah I
don't think it was quite as sad as that
lesson oh ok so without any spin
stabilization at all the slug performed
well this was essentially a test shot
just to make sure that my powder load
was correct and it looks like it's good
now the biggest difference between this
and the rightful foster slug is that we
can see that the tail end of this kind
of wobbling around a little bit and when
we make the final video where we test
out
Denver's plugs will be able to see if
that has any effect on it
accuracy let's have some more fun with
the foster slug here i have a one-gallon
jug full of water and a whole bunch of
junk mail
that's the perfect target and so
satisfying
oh I we got that on Kronos oh yeah
jackpot
oh the foster slug by far is the most
popular slug that we shoot the United
States one else of LED traveling 1,600
feet per second is going to do damage on
anything it hits and you can buy these
things at walmart for about a dollar
around but let's get back to the foster
slug and it's rather anemic spin is that
enough to really do anything you have to
consider this is filled at 8800 frames
per second and that let's plug is
actually spending several hundred rpm
now if you believe that that amount of
angular momentum is not enough to
stabilize something will consider this
this quarter was built at 8800 frames
per second and it's more than enough
spin to keep this quarter from falling
over now despite what the experts say a
rifled shotgun slug does indeed been out
of a smoothbore shotgun and the rotation
is occurring inside the barrel as the
soft lead slug is pressed against the
walls of the barrel there is enough
friction there to cause the slug to spin
it's not a very efficient way of
positive spin but it does occur even
though the spin isn't very much it still
adds to the slugs overall stability hope
you enjoyed this
thanks for watching
help or will the best go if you just hit
with a slug
okay you're good to go
Wow Wow through those locks of this haha
love wanted to break through on the back
and a nice little hole in the carrying
us inside here
there it is it the warmth go with kevlar
fibers and printed so the markings on a
tiny little show
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