today on Tao Fledermaus how is the heavy
hitter slug made even as a kid I was
very curious about how things were
constructed assembled just how they were
made
he got to the point where as a little
kid I would take my toys apart just to
see what made him tick
now I've posted a couple of videos of us
testing these Chuck and slugs in the
last few months but in my mind I was
like how the heck did this guy make
these slugs was it in a mold were they
in several pieces and then stuck
together somehow so luckily Jerry the
guy who made these slugs sent me a video
on how he actually makes these things so
I hope you enjoy this video okay first
of all I'll introduce myself I'm Jerry
Lundqvist I'm the one that has come up
with this shotgun slug that's very
different
the first aspects there are several
steps it's not just one is to convert
regular raw lead into a plug that we can
actually use so I do that by casting and
we have a mold here that will do that
for us we'll let this solidify just a
little bit
the molds a little bit on the warm side
okay and then as you can tell we have a
nice lead plug and this comes out real
close to about 750 grains so from this
step we'll move on to the next ready yep
okay another component of this slug is
that we actually have on at a copper
what I call rifling bound because
peer-led slugs going over a thousand
feet a second in a rifled barrel
don't mix too well so by putting the
rifling band on there it helps to
facilitate the right things to have
something to grab a hold of that won't
slip so the first thing I do is I take a
three-quarter inch copper tubing and I
run it through a draw sizing die and I
bring it down to point seven to five so
this is just part of the operation you
can see part of it is done and then
we'll just finish shoving that on
through
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and there we have its size down to take
care of our driving bass okay now over
here I have one already set up in the
lathe here and what we do with that is I
will cut it off so that is one tenth of
an inch thick
take a deep breath here
and it doesn't take too awful long where
you can have enough of these rings as
you can see down here you can produce
them quite rapidly and so this is the
ring that goes around the slug right
next to where the fins are you'll see
that in the operation that is the
rifling band next step we're going to
take that basic bled slug that we cast
over there and we're going to put in our
hydraulic crafts and what this is going
to do is it's going to bring it up to
right at about seven point seven one six
diameter and it's going to bleed off
excess lead so that we get it to the
weight that we want it to be
at the same time it will make it hollow
on the inside so this is the second step
in this which churches to that and our
weight comes out to right at 715 grains
which is right at that one and 5/8
ounces which is what we're looking for
so now we'll change our dies out and go
to the next step
we're going to form the fins and hydro
guide as I call that little point in
there and also install the rifling ban
so first thing I do is I'll set that
rifling band up here and we will just
get it in through the die
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and now we insert the lead plug
and that comes laughter
and when this comes out you will see
that we have formed the fins if you look
closely there at an angle that's
actually a three degree angle the
driving band is on there and so is the
hydro guide the little lead point that
sticks up there and this is you know the
basics we only have one more step to go
we'll make a couple more of these so we
have something to work with
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and see it comes out pretty clean nice
sharp edges on the fins nice hydro point
on the center there
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and again
we're coming up here with clues to our
finished product okay on this particular
stage as you see we've got our third
part done we're gonna form the nose part
so what we do is we stick it in our die
here
and if we run it into the other dye and
it will form the nose force
[Laughter]
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and voila finished product so the way
this is designed with the fins and an
angle to help facilitate rotation and
stability along with rifling band when
it hits this big hollow cavity will
collapse and mushroom out so that it is
much larger than what it is just like
eight i've powered rifle bullet would do
and make a much larger wound channel at
the same time that LED tip in there when
it gets stuck in the flesh and stuff it
will help to facilitate it going in a
straight direction that you wanted to
unless of course it hits solid bone or
something like that which could deflect
it but other than that it should fly
true so finished product accuracy
test-fire I still have a couple more
boxes of these slugs and for the next
series of tests will be shooting through
a fully rifled shotgun I hope you guys
enjoyed watching Jerry make the slugs
the big surprise to me was just how
labor-intensive it was to create these
slugs how many steps were involved very
complex procedure there if you haven't
seen the other two videos that they are
up on the screen right there and if you
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