turbo1889

There are basically two types of slug molds available for casting 12ga. slugs. Wad-slug molds produce a slug that is usually about 0.68" diameter that is deliberately undersize and is intended to fit inside the shot cup on a regular shot wad. Full bore diameter slug molds will produce slugs that have a diameter of at least 0.705" for the 12ga. They are intended to be loaded on top of a wad column made up of old fashioned hard card, cork, felt, and fiber wads but can also be loaded using modern plastic wads with the petals cut off flush so they are just a pusher wad. Which kind of slug d

Because I am lazy and don't want to re-type everything:

Q1 ~ Is it dangerous to load 1-oz (or any other weight slugs) with equivalent weight shot load data? A1 ~ No, doing so is not dangerous, it is safe and sane to do so. I do, however, strongly encourage “stiffening up” the wad-column when doing so for best load performance and accuracy. I don’t want to re-type everything so here is a link: http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=107590 Q2 ~ Are the federal bulk pack shells considered 2 3/4'' federal paper shells? A2 ~ Yes, unless they have changed the shells since I last used them. If it is a Federal hull an

Ahhh . . . Brand new high capacity magazine. Didn't catch that in your original post otherwise I would have suggested under loading the mag. earlier. Use just ten for now. As the spring in the mag. gets worn in you will be able to put more and more shells in the mag. at once until in time you will be able to fill it all the way up or darn close, at least that is my experience with the high capacity magazines.

I load less than lethal 12ga. loads all the time using a variety of different payloads. (Small farm animals that dogs just love to chase bother and kill and lots of neighbors who let their dogs run loose even though in my state it is a criminal offense to let your dog run loose off your own property and we have the legal right to shoot with fully lethal loads if they come after our stock. I just try to be nice and start with less than lethal and only work up to lethal if necessary.) As far as powder charge goes: What I have found works the best is a light charge of very fast burning powde

Just checked out your link. I've already got a couple handfuls of both the 2-1/2" and 3" factory four shell magazines plus some high capacity magazines so I'm not really in the market for any more mags. BUT I did notice that they are stocking the very rare plugged 2 round factory mags. for the S-410 that make your gun legal for waterfowl hunting. Now I realize that one can make their own plugs for the regular 4 shot mags. (already done that myself) and very few of us really go waterfowl hunting with the S-410 (BB heavy shot hand loads stacked in layers of three inside the wads of the lit

I have not tried them but I Googled him and found his design and as long as he is attaching some sort of card wad or plastic tail to them they should work very well. If he isn't attaching some sort of base to them then I wouldn't expect the results he is getting at 25 yards to continue out to the 50 yard line. It looks like he modified a Lee TL401-175-SWC mold - probably with a CNC milling machine to produce his slug design. I have done plenty of work myself along similar lines as he is doing. Here is a link to some of my work as published on the fourten.org.uk web site: http://www.

Sigh, . . . Some of the older S-410 (we have established that Boba Debt's gun is such) do not have the adjustable gas valve and thus when fired with 2-1/2" shells instead of 3" shells the semi-auto action will "short stroke" and will not feed the next shell. If you’re lucky the stroke is either short enough that the mouth of the cartridge is not pulled clear of the chamber and just pops back in forth in the chamber or the bolt goes back far enough to throw the empty hull free of the action but not far enough back to strip the next round out of the mag. so the bolt closes on an empty cha

I see no problems with a brake or flash hider instead of a choke. Normally flash hiders and brakes have an internal bore which is just slightly larger then the guns barrel bore. A slug coming out of a 0.410" diameter barrel into a flash hider or brake that is probably going to have a bore diameter of between 0.430" and 0.450" should cause no problems. Just a little extra air space cushion around the sides of the slug between it and the flash hider or muzzle brake. It might even improve accuracy kind of like a false muzzle in a modern inline muzzle loader.

That is actually an early threaded choke. Basically fixed swaged in choke guns were the first ones imported and then they started bringing in ones with threaded interchangeable chokes. First few shipments came with a ported full choke (that's what I see in your picture) and then after that they came with the #0 thread protector ring I spoke of. So I have attached the following pictures (shamelessly stolen from other posts on this forum) - Early Ported Full Choke that Came on the Guns for First Few Shipments of New Style Threaded Choke Barrels / The Three Most Common S-410 Choke Tubes Fro