Although it is unlikely, it is possible that the tip of the protruding slug could impact the primer of the shell in front of it. This could be extremely dangerous. A pointed slug should be covered with a cardboard or plastic disc or even fold crimped.
Failing that, the shotgunner should only place one slug at a time in a tube magazine. This unique design creats a more efficient seal. Above the gas seal are tubed, energy damping crush-sections that absorb the abrupt energy of setback, producing a stabilized projectile.
The result is higher velocity and greater shot-to-shot consistency. Uncompressed outside diameter of the sabot is specified for modern rifled barrels at a land-following. Europeans use their. It's the components. Give them a try in your. Nylon fins, attached to the round ball, set up stabilizing rotation for superb long-range accuracy and knock down power.
Also available lead Dangerous Game Slugs in three gauges:. When loading slug components with an inherent gas seal, the entire slug component must be nudged down with your reloading press' rammer tube.
Many loaders complain that they don't have enough room for a crimp. This tells us that the reloader is NOT pushing down on the slug prior to crimping and thus not properly seating the slug on the powder. Depending on your loading tool, these loads may require a series of nudges to allow the powder to enter and fill the concave cupped plastic gas seal. If you don't do this, then you'll get the "no-fit" problem or a failed load when the powder refuses to fully ignite.
Burned or punctured gas seals is almost always a result of this user error. Spire tip slugs placed within a tube magazine i. Although it is unlikely, it is possible that the tip of the protruding slug could impact the primer of the shell in front of it. This could be extremely dangerous. A pointed slug should be covered with a cardboard or plastic disc or even fold-crimped.
Failing that, the shotgunner should only place one slug at a time in a tube magazine. Verify no slug, regardless of type, protrudes past the top of a hull. Made in Italy. Your access to this website signifies your understanding of, consent to, and agreements with the terms and restrictions outlined on our legal notice page. All Rights Reserved. Product discounts?
Special sales? Sign up here. I was beginning to worry that buckshot style patterns and lengthy vertical strings were the best I was going to be able to achieve from handloaded slugs. It turns out that the third time was the charm as I revisited a slug I had first experimented with many years ago when I first took up handloading shotgun slugs: the DGS or dangerous game slug. DGS slugs are manufactured by Gualandi of Italy. They are very easy to handload. DGS slugs are suitable for use in both rifled and smooth bore guns.
The one piece nature of the DGS slug makes it one of the simplest shotshell projectiles to load. Simply charge a primed hull with an appropriate amount of powder, insert the slug into the hull, and crimp the whole thing closed. In order to ensure a good crimp, the slug must be forced onto the powder with considerable pressure.
They should not be loaded into a tubular magazine as the pointy tip of a protruding DGS could theoretically strike the primer of another cartridge resulting in a magazine chain fire. If the DGS slug is not compressed enough, it will pop the crimp.
Such shells should not be loaded into a tubular magazine. Those loads consisted of the slugs atop a moderate charge of Alliant Herco, all inside a common Winchester AA trap hull. Using the scoped, rifled barreled Mossberg I had at the time of this first test, results were less than spectacular.
At 50 yards, a three shot group was 4. I consider such a group mediocre for a rifled shotgun, and I was sure I could do better. The above group was fired from a Mossberg with a fully rifled deer barrel wearing a red dot sight.
The author was underwhelmed by the results. I finished off each shotshell with an eight point fold crimp. The above group was the result of an improved load using Unique and Cheddite Multi-Hulls. The flyer at the lower right of the group kept perfection just out of reach. As it turned out, the above load was the magic combination of components that yielded thoroughly unexpected accuracy. The five shot, 50 yard group I fired from my smoothbore, Benelli Nova with ghost ring sights was just smaller than 4.
Had it not been for a single flier likely my fault rather than the fault of the gun or the load the group would have been just over three inches at its widest point. The smoothbore results were superior to the rifled barrel results. Such accomplishments are what make handloading feel worthwhile. The terminal performance results of the DGS in gelatin. In addition to 20 inches of gel, the slug defeated a layer of heavy rib bone and 3.
I did not conduct an updated terminal performance test of the DGS slug as I had already conducted such a test years ago using a setup that integrated a layer of moose rib bones into a block of 10 percent gelatin. The distance to the test block was approximately 10 feet. Admittedly, the test was unscientific as the gel block was not calibrated, but the results were still impressive. The slug cleared straight through the layer of bone, 19 inches of gel, and 3.
The recovered slug was a bit mangled, but did not fragment or shed any weight. The recovered DGS. The slug was a bit mangled, but did not shed any weight.
The size of actual wound channel created by the slug was difficult to gauge since bone used in the test fragmented into numerous secondary projectiles that shredded a large amount of gel.
0コメント