RandyBishop
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I recently ran out of balls and shot and lead to make them, so I started to improvise with my replica short land bess. Wrapping .357 magnum slugs with tinfoil gave reasonable accuracy out to about 30 yards. I had handful or so of 7.62x54 kicking around that my brother in law gave me when he sold his rifle. I took 3 slugs from their shells and taped them together with duct tape and dropped a drop of flux cored solder in the middle to keep them together, removed the tape and wrapped them with tin foil and put a couple of shotgun pads under it. With a charge of 115 grains of powder and 5 in the pan I aimed it at a block of ice I froze in a 5 gal bucket from about 20 feet away. The block disappeared. Gone. I'm wondering if anyone else has ever done this and if so what kind of accuracy can one expect from such bizarre ammunition. I am aware that it could be dangerous under the wrong circumstances.Thank you for your time. I just joined this forum to post this, I am fairly new to black powder. My father and I bought a replica 1768 bess and a Hawken rifle in .50 a couple years ago. We quit deer hunting with our winchesters because it became too easy, and neither of us wanted to stick a deer with our crossbows or bows, so we bought flinters. Call us soft I suppose. I have enclosed a picture of the slugs before the solder was applied, and also a picture of a wrapped .357 mag. The three 7.62x54 slugs with the tin foil weighs about 500 grains, the .715 balls I shoot are 550. Thanks again, God bless. Stay safe. Think twice, act once. 
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