a bit of a big shot we're going to do a
short shot these are ideas and probably
close to 20 years old I'm surprised like
I was telling you earlier that they've
been around that long yeah in that box
is definitely old it's even yellowed
yeah and these little shells are kind of
making a comeback yeah for like those
little mini shotguns that people are got
these in the slugs birdshot and there's
another one I just saw advertised like
buckshot maybe here it might have been
buckshot okay all right we don't know
you know there's nothing on the boxing
the velocity no or the weight these
might be like 7/8 of an ounce
maybe 1,100 feet per second I don't know
we don't know yeah we'll find out if
they still shoot after so long when I
bought these they were new on the market
okay
I thought they've only been around like
five years
all right out of your Buckeye uh-huh
okay buck right back home back home okay
the aik al however there you go wait
whatever what are we doing so someone
will see we did it wrong okay let's get
the lead plate see there maybe one of
our Russian friends can give us a
pronoun correct girls diagonals I can't
even talk in English that's when you
know you've been how to send too long
because the mini shells are so short it
allows you to put many more shells in
your shotgun than using a normal two and
three-quarter inch shell these use 23
grains of powder
it looks like long shot to me it uses a
simple gas piston and notice how loosely
it fits to the actual slug but when the
shells fired the lead slug will lock
onto the gas piston and that will act as
a stabilizer these shells are just a
little bit more expensive than your
foster slug that you'd buy at Walmart so
let's see how they perform
the mini [ __ ] off whenever you're ready
didn't move the plate that much good a
decent kick but it did yet it a shot
wondering it did have a sharp kick to it
because they don't use a cushion wadding
like in most shells these things have a
little sharper kick to them it's a
little bit more of a kick than say a
federal target load the cratering we got
on the lead plate wasn't too substantial
everyone hit but not as much as that one
here's our impact and about five feet
over there I found the round I thought
maybe that's part of it too it looked in
some different looking led there I've
never had one of those out of the show
to see yeah I don't know if there look
like a little foster slugs your way
there you go I'm just in one home ID
literature card okay that's not full up
wd-40 is it no it's full of the water
the wd-40 is supposed to displace oh
okay let's see what a mini slug does to
a gallon of water hit it it just placed
the water it did despite what a lot of
people think ammunition really doesn't
lose much potency over the years when
it's kept in a in the proper environment
now these have an advertised velocity of
1,250 feet per second which is
supersonic
but shotgun slugs lose a lot of speed
even at that distance so I don't believe
it was even going supersonic when
instruct the can of water
these are low-power slugs you're
definitely not going to get that 2500
foot-pounds of energy that you get out
of a 1 ounce foster slug so you're
sacrificing energy for capacity and
twice the price yes lesson 10 yep it's
probably closer to about 7 we're going
to call it living room bad guy distance
yeah
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whoo I think I went through them close
range accuracy seems to be excellent it
hit exactly where it was aiming on that
target for home defense applications
these may just be the ticket so we good
yeah it's not much Kevlar there we could
just skim the top yeah we I don't think
we had that push that panel all the way
up there there was a problem yeah but uh
is that accurate that's important then
he was on target yeah zoom in for that
eye okay the Aquila 30-yard shot boom
boom shankha 30 yards is probably about
the effective range of these shells the
slug is definitely subsonic we don't see
any dust being kicked up from the
shockwave as comparison this is a
Russian UPK - slug
traveling around Mach 1.4 and you can
clearly see the shockwave kicking up the
dust on the ground let's take one more
shot with the mini shell at 30 yards and
see if Danny can get a more direct hit
okay whenever you're ready excellent one
thing to keep in mind is these were shot
of a shotgun with a 26 inch barrel if
you're going to be using a Mossberg
shockwave which only has a 14 inch
barrel your muzzle velocity will be even
further reduced I mistakenly said these
things worth $2 a shell and I hate being
that wrong and because I was so wrong I
decided to take down the first video
make the corrections and upload it just
for the sake of accuracy and Odyssey
that one here it's the the top one yep
like ya came off the same makes a troll
and there you have it the Aquila mini
shells yeah you could put a lot more in
your gun but the muzzle energy is about
half of that of a foster slug and they
cost just a little bit more is it worth
the sacrifice maybe so I hope you
enjoyed this video thanks for watching