Hello everyone this is Jeff of taofledermaus. Today we have a wooden slug with a steel core in it
these are sent to us by Saar Tal of
Israel
Saar designed these to fit into the shot cup of a shotgun wadding
Everything fits really well, but I have a lot of doubts about these things because, hey, they're made out of wood
and I think they're going to just splinter when we shoot em'
Now you may remember these slugs these were made out of candy by the same guy Saar
And he is a candy maker
But I also thought these would shatter when we shot em' from the nearly
10,000 G's of acceleration that's occurring inside the barrel of the shotgun
The 3d printed slugs that we shot last week, well, they shattered
It's a testament of how much force these things are under but remarkably these slugs these candy slugs
held together and they flew exceptionally well
Now the producers for the TV show outrageous acts of science on the Science Channel
I don't get that Channel unfortunately, but they thought this was pretty remarkable too.
When the episode comes out and you see it
Let me know, let me know if it's cool or not because I'll probably never see it
Now it's time to test out the wooden slugs.
Do you think they're gonna hold up and you think we'll be able to hit anything with them?
These are just a buy a bill...will they even work shot
Now I expected these slugs to shatter so I loaded some with the steel facing backwards thinking it would be a little stronger that way
But as you can see even with spin stabilization the slug was still a little wobbly going downrange. Okay, this is metal in the front ? Metal in the front.
Okay
Just so we know
Okay, I'm ready
Ow
With the steel facing forward and more weight forward the slug still held together and it flew much better
So once again, I was proven wrong, but hey, I love being surprised and proven wrong so let's continue with the test
And that one is a
steel forward ?
Yes. Okay.
Okay, steel forward
Fully rifle barrel at a deck of cards at ten...five yards. Five yards.
Okay, I'm ready when you are.
Alright, let's see what they do. Gonna aim a little low because these shoot high.
Yep. Well, it, it
went low. It went low. (laughter)
When you use a scope at that close of range
that's what happens, but look at that the slug went right through that 2x4 wood going through the wood
That I one aimed low because I thought they were going to rise. Yeah. It didn't.
It's because of that scope I think. I'm going to go dead on. Okay.
After we take the safety off.
Oh ! Beautiful ! Error, error.
Yeah it hit, but it's not true. My point of aim was right here.
He seemed to want to shoot low right
cuz the first shot...
I was aiming here thinking they were gonna rise and it hit low right. Right through the 2x4. That's wood on wood...
crime there
He went right through the whole deck it looked like. Yep. Not bad for a wooden slug
Honestly, I don't know what we were thinking shooting at only 5 yards. That's just silly but this shot
he adjusted to aim and that slug went right through that deck of cards.
Last week we were having all kinds of weird problems with our chronograph
And I was really worried that it was broken after using it like one day
Okay wet magazine test we'll see if we get a chronograph reading this time. Are you over it?
Oh, yeah. Okay.
(Laughter)
Okay, I'm ready when you are.
What kind of speed ? Fourteen sixty six. Oh, that's more than I thought
Already shot that before with that uh Lehigh Defense. The Lehigh Defense went in here.
Think our orange dot was right about here
Yeah, yeah. And I was aiming because those were shooting low left or low right. I was aiming right here. Okay.
Try to bring it in there. It didn't go through or anything did it ? I don't think that went through there. Okay.
It's busted up in there probably
Got two shots out of the magazines at least
Open up this little package see what we got
Yeah, didn't go very deep.
Here's, uh, one...
Starting to see some wood splinters here
Third round
There it is at least good chunk of it.
Oh, wow most of it's there, I don't know about the steel core
Steel core might've kept moving. Yeah. Let's see if it's in here
Nothing there.
Wow, that kept on going. That went pretty deep. Wait, is that ? Nah, that's just paper.
Wow ! Still traveling let's go back here a few.
(laughs)There it is. Wow !
There it is. It went about...
three quarters of the way through it
Look kind of acted like a non discarding Sabo, I guess
Very cool. Yeah, save that sucker
That's a lot deeper penetration than I expected you know the wood didn't go far
but that steel. The wood stopped in uh, what, number three number, number four ? Something like that, yeah. And then I'm not gonna count em'
yeah, so it it weighed about more than three-quarters the way through. I think to count that high I'd have to unzip. (laughter)
I was expecting these slugs to be traveling around 1,200 feet per second
which is what the shells were originally rated for so it was a surprise that they were traveling much faster than that at
Fourteen sixty six (feet per second)
Another steel forward
Rifled barrel. Okay. I'm ready when you are
Wow ! Thirteen sixty six (feet per second)
So far we're having excellent results using the fully rifled barrel getting really good spin stabilization, and the slugs are flying
just as good as a factory slug
But how will these perform out of a smoothbore shotgun with no spin at all
Wow I saw a dust kickup down the stream
Well it flew pretty well.
I expected it to just tumble to be honest with you and look those sparks coming out the back. That's very cool
As we found it, right ? This is as we walked up on it. Part of our slug laying there.
Let me see it. Any clues on that. It looked like, here's the back side.
It looks like it hit more or less nose-first. Then we've got a nice round
half circle. It looks like it hit pretty much nose first. Yeah. And this broke out. Yeah. And this broke out.
Yeah, look at that. Yeah, nice clean circle. That's cool.
Pretty accurate without spin at...
10 yards ? 10 yards, and that was pretty much point of aim and that was a 20-inch smoothbore
Yeah, steel core kept on going for 50 yards and hit the dirt
Alright, not bad.
Very cool.
Okay we got the backwards
The backwards uh slug
Through the rifle barrel. We'll see if we have enough stabilization
and all that
Okay, I'm ready. Alright, here we go.
Wow
Well we wanted to give the backwards slug another chance, and this time it actually flew straight and true
You would think the ballistic gel will be kind of gentle on a round like that, but it's a pretty abusive target to shoot at
There's our point of impact. Where were you aiming on that one?
Kind of in here, I wanted to keep it off on the right a little bit
but I didn't know where it was gonna go so I tried to stay center of the tube. Okay.
We weren't sure that's why we put two of them up there. I wasn't sure you know it's like okay
we could maybe increase the chance of hitting something. Just about point of aim. Yeah. Look at that.
Splinters.
I'm not sure what kind of wood that is, you have any idea ? It's kind of a reddish wood. Reddish,
like almost a mahogany. What do they grow in Israel ? (laughs)
Let's see what the backside looks like here. Oh we got wood poking out the back even
Wow, that's a nasty injury there folks.
It's not so much what the...
slug does to the gel sometimes. It's what the gel does to the slug
Wow, that's nasty just in it and the steel core kept on going
It hit about, what, a 100 yards down there ? Yeah, yeah, it did. Can you imagine your surgeon trying to dig that out of a body? Yeah, yeah?
Wow ! They're going to do more damage to getting it dug out than the slug did. Hahaha, yeah.
That's awesome though. That was the backwards one ! Yep.
Very cool. See here in the wood
Here's where the metal plug was and in that round we had it in the reverse
Yep. So it hit this direction. I think they need that forward balance to make it fly true
But we want to see how things work other ways, you know ? Ten yards.
It was on pretty much on target. That would be a good home defense round
Okay, I'm rolling so what are we going to shoot ?
Alright, we're going to try it at, uh, 330 Youtube yards
(laughter)
Uh, actually, 33 yards measured.
And that's the backwards one ?
This is the backwards one.
Okay.
We'll see what it's going to do downrange.
Ready ? Yeah, I'm ready. Alright.
It hit the target.
High right.
About one o'clock ?
Yep
Okay, now. He's going to shoot the normal forward steel forward one.
Forward facing, whatever you want to say
Okay. Same point of aim.
Ready ?
I'm ready.
Ha ! Same point of im...very close !
Even though the point of impact on both these shots were very close
you can see the backwards slug must have hit, uh, sideways
and key holed, while the forward one went clean through.
They are grouping fairly well for a homemade wooden slug.
(laughs)Yeah !
Wow. Well that's very cool, man. I'm glad we were able to finally shoot those for Saar.
And that the candy slug video will be on
the Science Channel
sometime soon
I'm not sure was it
amazing acts of
Science or something like that
Hmm.
Yeah.
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