Have you ever shot a "slug" of lead?

[N.Y. Yankee]

Slug , meaning, just a cylinder of lead the propper diameter, the ends cut square and the same length as the diameter? I would assume it would be patched?

 

[Greg_E]

A trashcan load, no reason it won't work if you assume you can spin it fast enough to stabilize. The Lee REAL are not far from this concept. And you can say that many revolvers do just this after they shave the round ball down during the loading process.

 

[N.Y. Yankee]

Trashcan load? Interesting!

 

[Dale Allen Raby]

I wouldn't try to patch it. Maybe you could paper patch it, which would be a different concept.

 

[TDM]

No different than a wad cutter round, just bigger. And like a wad cutter it would probably work best with a reduced load.

 

[64Springer]

The .38 Special wad cutter has been around for decades.

The theory has been proven to work.

Patch it IMHO.

 

[ord sgt]

Trashcan load? Interesting!

Trashcan is a term for a minie ball. They are used by N-SSA shooters for target shooting from civil war type rifles.

 

[nhmoose]

https://www.titanreloading.com/product/lee-sc-mold-500-354-m-modern-minie-50-cal/
The 58's may be discontinued.

 

[nkbj]

Length the same as the diameter is liable to make it tough to get the bullet to expand into the rifling grooves. On shorties I favor a shallow hollow base.
These are forty bore micro minies.

 

[dave951]

https://www.titanreloading.com/product/lee-sc-mold-500-354-m-modern-minie-50-cal/
The 58's may be discontinued.

Lee discontinued this mold in 58cal but it's still listed for 50cal.

I shoot trashcan minies sometimes in competition. LtoR 50cal custom minie, 58cal RCBS, 58cal Rapine Trashcan, 58cal RCBS Hogdon, 58cal Moose International

 

[nkbj]

A short fifty bore paper patched. Never did get it quite to where I wanted as far as accuracy goes.

 

[LongWalker]

As for the solid square-ended-length-equals-diameter slug, a friend told me once he got his first deer using an 1861 Springfield shooting just such a slug he whittled out of a battery post. This would have been about 1951. He said it worked, but the first chance he got he traded for a proper mould for that musket.

 

[Uncle Miltie]

I use this flat based pure lead 56 caliber slug paper patched in a full-on target rifle built in 1885. Excellent accuracy, it is pictured next to a 45 Auto cartridge for size comparison

 

[CapPopper]

https://www.titanreloading.com/product/lee-sc-mold-500-354-m-modern-minie-50-cal/
The 58's may be discontinued.

I've got one of those molds I believe. Don't really have a use for it but I've got one lol

 

[nkbj]

I use this flat based pure lead 56 caliber slug paper patched in a full-on target rifle built in 1885. Excellent accuracy, it is pictured next to a 45 Auto cartridge for size comparison

Man that's pretty. What does it weigh in at?

 

[Eterry]

Peter Hathaway Capstick wrote of natives in South Africa using chunks of re-bar steel in their "gas pipe" muzzleloaders. Often with mixed results.
One of lead would definitely add weight to the situation.

 

[Smokey Plainsman]

I always thought a flat headed 1/4 pound Foster slug from a 4 bore smoothbore stopping gun loaded with say 300 grains of powder would be a lot of fun to try on deer.

 

[Uncle Miltie]

Man that's pretty. What does it weigh in at?

977 grains. I use 160 gr GOEX Cartridge powder to throw it the target.

 

[TDM]

No fun for the deer.

 

[nkbj]

977 grains. I use 160 gr GOEX Cartridge powder to throw it the target.

Now that has to be some gun.
If you ever feel inclined to provide details on rifling and other such details then I for one would be most appreciative.