today we'll be testing the capabilities of a twister six lug
as a defense round loaded in a mid length hole
this is jeff of taofledermaus bringing you the most exotic 12 gauge
rounds from around the world sent to us by viewers like you
today's submission was by a viewer that just goes by the moniker psycho clown we'll call him pk from
here on out but he used a mold imported from russia from a company called bullet molds as
company and they call this the twister slug the slug is attached by a screw to a brp-12 gas seal
to ensure we have proper alignment of the slug to the gas seal we simply use an unfired hole
as a jig i've seen a lot of people really over think this and use a lot of other contraptions but
it really is this simple you can see if you have perfect alignment simply by rolling it
on a hard surface the twister is a controlled fragmentation slug when it impacts a material
like flesh or ballistic gel in this case it will break into seven different pieces creating
pretty gnarly wound tracks using the same mold but different center pins the twister can be created
with three petals four petals five petals or six petals like the one we're using today although
this isn't officially called the twister six just for the sake of continuity that's what we're
calling it now because we're using that shorter brp 12 wad which is only 20 millimeters tall
we're gonna load these into a two and one quarter inch hole instead of a two and three quarter inch
hole while this isn't much of a difference it does allow me to load nine of these into the tube of my
mossberg 590 instead of just eight two and three quarter inch shells the twister six weighs in at
a respectable 36.5 grams or just over one and a quarter ounce that's pretty hefty considering a
foster slug weighs in at one ounce now let's head out to the range and let's do the twist
we're gonna shoot him at uh 10 yards
fully rifled barrel and uh hopefully we can capture one and see what the results are
1205 or 9 i'm sorry 209. using full rifling with the attached wad which it
may or may not need with full rifling we had good stability but as you'll see in the other tests
that wasn't always the case we did have a little bit of wonkiness going on using full rifling
minimal over penetration still a lot of energy there everything stayed together pedals didn't
separate but with that expansion there's a lot of transfer the wad it looks like it compressed
pretty uniformly too which is really important let's let's try it out of a smooth bore let's
do that there's so many people um there's so much mentality out there that rifling makes everything
more accurate or better or something somehow but these things aren't designed for rifling
russian stuff is not designed for rifling they can't have rifled shotguns there and
because of their laws so they make fantastic slugs to compensate for that we've gotten a little lazy
here in the united states and don't innovate as much as we should but come the countries that
have these very strict raws on rifle barrels and stuff
end up producing some really good stuff they say necessity is the mother of invention
exactly yep we'll make well okay no no rifle barrel we make slug as accurate as rifled barrel
that was horrible but you know what i mean okay smoothbore this time with bead sites but
danny doesn't need a red dot okay let's see if the velocity is any
different let's see if the accuracy is any different stability damage okay i'm ready
11 57. i think that one went through i believe so
out of a smoothbore which most people own for a defense shotgun the slug performed beautifully
and so far i'm really happy with how well that brp-12 that green wad is holding up to the test
danny and i were trying to figure out why we had lower velocity on a on a the smooth bore which
has a four inch long longer barrel than the rifled barrel why we're getting lowered velocities i mean
and what's the theory there uh it's just a theory at this point theory my theory is is uh the lower
powder charge the 25 might be using up all of its power before it reaches the end of the barrel
uh and then it starts just becoming drag through the barrel right and slowing down a little bit
okay i'm ready when you are all right one of the big surprises of this test was how much
energy these slugs delivered even at these lower velocities the slug did fragment as it
passed through the magazines and you could see some of the orange petals flying through the air
all right here we go
at this higher velocity the slug still perform very well using that brp-12 gas seal and i think
you'll agree that smoothbore performance with these slugs is rather impressive now one may argue
that this velocity may be a little excessive for a home defense situation but you're an adult and you
can make your own decisions okay danny is there anything we can learn from that big mess there
don't use wet magazines for a bulletproof vest oh okay
um i think that was right on target here you were you were dead on on that one all
right well we had full pass through up to that point on both of them and out the back yeah
10 24 is that right 10 24 100 and 224 824 i'm sorry in our tests we had sort of mixed results
using full rifling now we really can't complain about the accuracy the accuracy was quite good
but the stability as you can see in the high speed is a little bit wonky in some of the shots
remember the slug is engineered to be shot through a smoothbore
and to think that you're going to get better accuracy with rifling is kind of like thinking
that you're going to get better accuracy from a rifle if you put fins on the bullet
that was 10.71 once again we're really happy with the accuracy through full rifling now
one thing you may not have noticed is we're now firing these things at subsonic speeds
at this low velocity a lot of expanding bullets simply do not expand at all but
the twister had no problem fragmenting and dumped a lot of energy in the process
okay the ballistic gel is getting a little sad looking and i'm eventually
probably going to turn them into like ballistic gummy bears or heads or something like that
but i did bring this out just in case we needed it we got 10 inches through the
short part but the the whole idea is just show the fragmentation
and um from a side shot a side shot this time not you know not from the perspective of the shooter
and again um low velocity subsonic usually you need to get supersonic to
cause fragmentation like like that like we've seen but not with these things good hydraulics
yeah yeah yeah that's surprising good idea all right here we go
this is the same powder load as the last two shots subsonic and look at the devastation it
does to that gel block if you're a hunter and you're thinking about using these for hunting
wild boar or deer or something like that you're probably wondering how much damage this round does
to the meat well let's find out uh the infamous meat target that everybody wants yeah it's i hate
wasting food but it's for science you know and we can't bring out a whole pig or nothing like
that so we got a pork shoulder here i'm seeing a whole pig would be kind of gruesome and i don't
know where i'd keep it in my garage provided we can hit center should be not a problem we got uh
about eight and a half inches of meat there how wide is it i'm not bragging
all right overall six by let's call it eight yep
10 46. once again we're using full rifling and right before it impacts the target which is at
10 yards or 9.1 meters the slug really begins to twist around wildly i think at higher velocities
and it did longer distances that would be less noticeable and the entire point of this video
is to see how well these slugs will perform at lower velocities at a self-defense range of 10
yards or less okay danny did it tenderize our meat for us i would say it did you can take the
plastic off if that helps oh look at that there's a bone in there but i think we missed the bone
yeah no we broke some bone oh interesting okay look at that yeah
all right turn away kids it's gonna get graphic here yeah i'm gonna show you
never mind look at this this is all shattered bone in here wow
any sign of the slug or wow
that really broke up that bone big time yeah this is all i think some people do hunt
like well bore with these things this is what shoulder yeah pork shoulder work shoulder well
not much shoulder left in that one uh well
we got an exit here look at that look at that oh there's a piece right there
right there look at that didn't expect that nope that's like buffalo door lock there right there
one there one there i just want to mention if you if you aren't subscribed to buffalo outdoors he is
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look at this even all the way through shattered the bone wow
okay jeez and that was these are just kind of low velocity rounds
i forgot to bring my wetsuit oh okay let's do it all right here we go
danny i am actually quite impressed with that one subsonic velocity
full fragmentation what happened well we went through the bottom of the jug
which is the thickest part you know everybody's gonna be sitting that jug down hard or slamming
it down or driving it at work we had these jugs and i think i dropped one off like a it
was an accident but it was like like a five-story building no i'm kidding no i've dropped them like
you know tesla height and they don't break no they're polycarbonate and very tough very tough
yeah that one shattered broke the fragments flew both directions i on the high speed it looked like
i saw a couple fragments making it all the way out the jug the end there we do have some tears here
right there at least we got dents we got dents that wasn't there before dinner there small
one there and i thought i saw another one here right there a little okay the thing and then i
think they kind of went sideways because this is what we found yep yeah we found a lot of it and
think about how nasty that is those those are some sizable pieces of lead fragments each the size of
a 25 30 caliber you're right yeah and maybe i'll weigh those and figure it out and then this time
we recovered the basin and the wad and i just want to show people something here the the screw
came through the bottom of the gas seal and i think some people may have an issue with that
thinking they're going to lose their gas seal but it's kind of like when you get a tire nailing in
your tire you're not going to necessarily get any leakage until you take the nail out
so i think we just you know kept our gas seal fine even though the screw was sticking out
but yeah i definitely like these wads a lot better we have a
better more uniform compression going on amazingly even at subsonic speeds we had great fragmentation
that would make a great home defense round
any thoughts danny well i agree with you on as far as the whole defense round
this traveled we found it what maybe 10 12 feet out there past yeah it didn't make it very far
and then these were kind of yeah just all over the place yeah left and right of the target uh some of
it probably these that these that dented probably got flushed back out when the water came out
yeah and i got a little bit wet yeah we kind of suspected knew that was going to happen but it's a
hot day out here and felt good i thought i thought i was going to spray the cameras splash back
is the twist around the perfect home defense round in my opinion it worked fantastic but these are
just my opinions and i'm just another knucklehead on youtube but we do the tests you see them and
you decide for yourself danny and i had a lot of fun filming these things for you guys and i hope
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