today we'll be testing out
a new shotgun slug from no other than
the celebrity machinist tim hamilton of
ballistic machinist channel this is a
solid copper slug designed to open up
when it impacts flesh and also fragment
and we call this I don't know what he's
going to call it working
we're gonna name it won't even go face
boaty mcboatface this first shot was
fired at twelve-hundred feet per second
what we would call a low-velocity test
because this can be loaded up and shot
and much higher velocities the slug
managed to go through all the gel minute
eventually was stopped by the Kevlar
best at the end of the table if you look
closely you can see a couple of the
copper pedals that had sheared off in
are now flying independently now the
slug was recovered and one of the pedals
was also recovered
it's only to the pedals actually shirt
off I consulted tim hamilton asking what
kind of simple modifications I could do
to the remaining slugs that will
increase the expansion of them and gave
me several options to try we decided to
go with the second one simply shampooing
the intake of the hollow point given it
a larger opening as you can see we also
eliminate the steel actuator ball okay
anytime
once again the slug is traveling at
twelve-hundred feet per second but we
can definitely see a big problem there
as the slug was flying sideways through
the air
here's the recovered slug of course no
pedals were open no expansion occurred
because the slug was flying sideways of
course a slug flying sideways or
keyholing through a target like that is
going to create massive damage to the
gel which it did
now the reason we are doing low-velocity
test is because the loads that were
using have very low smoke and very low
heat distortion so we can get the best
imagery with our cameras here we can see
that part of the wadding mostly the shot
cup is still attached to the slug itself
the slug is flying a little more stable
in this shot
however it did hit the gel and a slight
nose up orientation looking at the
damage on the table we can see that the
slug partially exited jail block number
five and partially entered and sprung
back out of jail block number six
looking at the recovered slug we have
once again have no expansion and none of
the pedals were shirt off
ok might get bounced back on this one
okay hit
exactly went off that way though it's
pretty apparent that the slug once again
blue sideways in this shot
let's see what happened in high-speed
greg was aiming at about a ten o'clock
position on the plate and as you can see
it hit about the seven o'clock position
alright let's continue with the 50-yard
shot man
yep I'm ready this one I don't know
where that round where yeah that was
those things have some problem they
don't like that are set up
although it's difficult to see in the
shot the slug again tumbled through the
air and then rather than dropping it
actually rose about four feet and then
end up hitting the brush behind there
another idea that Tim wanted is to try
was to actually an eel the copper slug
making a little softer and see if that
will help with the expansion
we also loaded the shell a little hotter
and we'll shoot this at a velocity of
about 1,300 feet per second and we will
shoot this into our stack of soaking wet
magazines
ok anytime wallet to it
ok anytime the slug went very deeply
into this target probably about seven
inches into the soaking wet mess of wet
magazines the slug was recovered along
with two of the pedals that sheared off
but once again we didn't have complete
sharing of all eight petals now it
should be noted that tim has already
done a few tests of his own shooting
them throughout fully rifle shotgun at a
much higher velocity and he has had
nothing but success on his end
ok let's look at the high-speed footage
this time with the slightly higher
velocity we had better stability flying
through the air that slug hit nose-first
exactly where greg was a mean even
though we had a lot of just flat-out
failures on our end with these low
velocity tests we did determine that
increasing the velocity only helps in
this case in a few days Tim will be
posting his results of his test using a
higher velocity shell and shot through a
fully rifle shotgun
I'm really excited to see his results so
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thanks for watching