thank you hello everyone this is Jeff of TAOFLEDERMAUS. Today we'll be testing the
Mt round ball it's a solid lead spherical slug weighing one ounce or 28 grams if you're in Canada
In an effort to try to make these round balls more accurate I designed a special cradling support wad
made out of toilet paper for these stay tuned Welcome back tough leader folks Jeff is behind
the camera officer Greg here on loan from OG's danger show and today we have another round from
the Goodell shotgun shell shot shell company and one of the largest purveyors of shotgun
slugs anywhere on the internet um we're shooting one today called the Mt ball not the empty ball
Mt round ball empty round ball and just going to show you a little close up here so I won't
talk about it much but uh just a little round ball that's got a little uh toilet paper wadding behind
it for some cushioning and we're going to send it down range through not only a Smooth Bore we're
going to try a couple of rounds to the rifling and see if it engages the rifling see how accurate
they are and I think we got some surprise targets for you today so let's get to it a little helmet
Target is 20 yards away smoothbore first yep okay I'm ready here we go
very light recoil
okay there it is and doctor there it is right there oh look at that look at that
the back of it squished nice and flat top of it look at that how it kind of grew in size
in diameter and we see some quite interesting here the support while it did not separate
from our Slug and it seemed to act like a stabilizing tail kept it going straight no
one may think that the watt is somehow glued or stuck to the slug but that's not the case
the conditions were just perfect in this shot where the low pressure area behind the
slug prevented that wad from separating it's it's a weird thing but it happens
putting them on the fire anywhere I'll be happy anyway but if it knows all right
ready okay I'm ready
ah see it hit the burn back there yeah I'm ready
in this shot we set the plastisol Gummy Bear's face on fire and that slug hit exactly where
Greg was aiming it not only put out the fire but it also made a really cool spider web
effect from that Molten plastisol now we did have separation of the support wad from the
projectile on this shot and the purpose of that wad is solely to prevent deformation
of that ball when it's shut because of deformed sphere is not going to be very
accurate so far the support watch seems to be working quite well for this application
the world's famous flaming lead plate
tell us what do you think about the Flaming objects why do you have to talk about its
orientation too okay I'm ready here we go see if we can put out the fire
negative see if we can put out the fire negative
fire was this way uh went high and left California ballistics
you can see kind of how it splattered out through the oh yeah yeah build up
um yeah we had her it didn't knock out the fire either when we came up here the
Flames were still going and uh a little gasoline soap napkins were still sitting in there
so there you go lead plate fans there's your lead flaming lead pad hopefully that makes up
for not having it last week I guess so I'm not sure exactly what turns you guys on about the
lead plate but they're getting mad with you now again we had no wad Separation on this shot and
it may be too early to say that's a detriment or if it's just a coincidence that when this
happens it's not as accurate now I was expecting the toilet paper wads to just disintegrate thanks
to uh Sergio the bullet Whisperer for donating that flaming boot when you are ready I'm ready
it didn't hit try one more yeah oh hurry up
that one hit knock the tape off
oh it made it easy oh
that one hit oh I made a knees there it goes well we had one missed shot and one shot that
was a little bit High well we did have lot Separation on this shot so there goes my
theory about the wad throwing off the accuracy and it's too bad because down inside that boot
we had a can of shaving cream that was on fire and eventually the pressure got so high in the
can of shaving cream that it just blew up on its own now let's test a couple through full rifling
okay I'm ready on the can [Music]
and if they hit it there was just no explosion
[Music]
a little different results using full rifling not only do we have separation but disintegration
of that support Watt and we were quite pleased with the accuracy in this shot now we did have
paint in the can but apparently the propellant had leaked out but the Flaming gnome is still
pretty satisfying to see let's see what the Mt round ball will do to our East German army helmet
there you go
okay what happened to the helmet so you remember this Dent from last time oh that's not the new
Dan no that's the old Dent from uh from the first shot that hit it compromised the helmet but check
this out oh it went through Brandon was wearing this thing down over his face right because he
was scared of what was going to happen that thing hit and look at that just tore right through it
into his forehead Wham and I I thought that helmet was super tough too and oh out the back look at
the stuffing out the back oh my gosh if you take one thing away from this don't run with scissors
don't wear each German Helmet in a shotgun fight gotcha we're here for education purposes only
in our limited tests using the fully rifled barrel the results were pretty impressive
I was unsure we'd get any engagement with the rifling but as you can see we got really good
spin now an even bigger surprise was after shooting this helmet with a very
heavy exploding slug last week this slug actually went through it in fact it went through the side
of the helmet through the head and left a dent on the other side as you can see this week the
theme was flaming targets that set everything on fire and see what that looks like [Music]
typically the way people load a lead round ball is to use a cork wad or a hard fiber wad behind
the projectile the problem with this is they are not taking into account just how much force that
soft lead ball is being put under we can get a pretty good understanding of what's going on
inside the Chamber of the shotgun when we look at a golf ball being struck and bear in mind this is
much less Force than what's going on inside the shotgun with nearly 10 000 PSI the ball flattens
out against the face of the club and also expands in diameter the ball resists movement because of
the mass of the ball in fact you can see that the ball has not even left the tee at this
point the golf ball will return to a spherical shape eventually but the lead round ball will
still have a massive flat spot on it and that's what we want to prevent if we can keep the lead
round ball from deforming it's going to be more accurate using a flat cork wad against a sphere
you can see we have very little support or contact with the ball the first thing I had to do was come
up with a way of supporting that lead ball as much as possible the problem is nobody sells a wad that
perfectly fits the Contours of this kind of oddly shaped projectile so I had to make them myself I
simply took a few sheets of toilet paper and mix it with a little bit of water and broke it down
into a pulp I used a short section of a shotgun shell as a mold and gently packed this pulp into
that and then I just press the projectile into this gooey mess and squeeze out as much water
as I could I left it sitting on top of a paper towel to absorb more moisture and overnight it
will completely dry it's very light very rigid and has the exact Contours of our projectile it
was very easy to make it didn't require any special tools or toxic chemicals to create
this and it's actually lighter than a core quad the core quad weighs about half a gram and our
toilet paper wad weighs about one third of a gram or about five grains that's very light I
used 25 grains of long shot which is not a fast burning powder or a Hot Load so velocity should
have been around 1200 to 1300 feet per second but using a wall that gave us maximum support
really cut down on deformation of the projectile anyway I hope you enjoyed this video I want to
thank Goodale shot shell company for sending these to test out they sell just the Slugs and they have
a selection of over 75 exotic slugs to choose from not just 12 gauge stuff but 410 10 gauge
28 gauge 20 gauge you name it and as always thank you for watching the video we'll see you next time