Foster slugs

[hbasajaun]

Dear sirs I have a pedersoli slug shotgun, it has cylinder bores, no chokes.
What do you think about use this kind of bullets in smoothbores?
Anybody use them?
Nowadays I use ball and patch.

 

[hbasajaun]

My gun

 

[64Springer]

Smooth bore is smooth bore.

Be it BP or Modern.

Shoot those suckers and long as bore/slug fit is GTG.

 

[windini]

I would try the Foster slugs & see how they performed using various charges of FFg powder.

If they are accurate for your purpose, keep shooting them! If they are inaccurate, stay with patch & ball.

 

[Sam squanch]

They never were accurate for me.

 

[Freedom]

They tumbled and keyholed for me within just a few yards.
So I hot glued a folded narrow strip of wool blanket scrap into the hollow base. The strips were about 3/8" wide x 4"or5" long, folded in half, stuck in the back and glued.

This drag-stablized them very nicely.
With the streamer tails you could see them flying! They would only fly a maximum distance of about 200 yards.

 

[IanH]

They tumbled and keyholed for me within just a few yards.
So I hot glued a folded narrow strip of wool blanket scrap into the hollow base. The strips were about 3/8" wide x 4"or5" long, folded in half, stuck in the back and glued.

This drag-stablized them very nicely.
With the streamer tails you could see them flying! They would only fly a maximum distance of about 200 yards.

Well THAT'S certainly different!

We use streamers a parachutes on very small model rockets because of the drag they produce for little weight and great reliability.

 

[BillinOregon]

I can even imagine a "kite tail" of fluorescent surveyor's tape streaming along in the breeze at 1,000 fps. Would make a fun slow-motion video -- and make tracking your deer easier.

 

[Dave Markowitz]

They tumbled and keyholed for me within just a few yards.
So I hot glued a folded narrow strip of wool blanket scrap into the hollow base. The strips were about 3/8" wide x 4"or5" long, folded in half, stuck in the back and glued.

This drag-stablized them very nicely.
With the streamer tails you could see them flying! They would only fly a maximum distance of about 200 yards.

That's innovative! Were you able to get good groups with them?

 

[Freedom]

That's innovative! Were you able to get good groups with them?

As I recall they shot pretty well. Figuring a way to get them to stop tumbling in a smooth bore was the best part. I was shooting them from a 62 Cal smoothbore rifle and a Howdah pistol.

As I recall they didn't weigh much more than a roundball, they were just a fun novelty to play with. And like most all of my experiments coming full circle,...always to return to the patched round ball.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

They never were accurate for me.

Me neither

They tumbled and keyholed for me within just a few yards.
So I hot glued a folded narrow strip of wool blanket scrap into the hollow base. The strips were about 3/8" wide x 4"or5" long, folded in half, stuck in the back and glued.

This drag-stablized them very nicely.
With the streamer tails you could see them flying! They would only fly a maximum distance of about 200 yards.

I found that Brenneke style slugs worked very very well, and they had the wad secured to the rear to similarly drag stabilize the rounds.

LD