Possible to convert Lead shot to Slugs??

[werner.reiche]

We use to play with shotgun shells open up crimp dump out shot. Put some shot back in while melting wax candle with shot gradually putting shot wax back in shell recrimp worked pretty good actually

I'd tried this with .410's #6 and parrafin. It didn't work very well. The wax disintegrates into wax dust and the shot spreads like there was no wax in it. I was going to try it again with a softer wax - bullet lube - but never got around to it.

[Kilo Charlie]

My Grandfather use to cut 3/4 of the way around the hull with a knife and about 1 inch up from the brass and shoot it, was called the poor mans slug. Never heard of cutting the tops off.

I was going to post the same thing, lol!
And back in the day of plentiful surplus ammo, a lot of guys used to file the points off full-metal-jacket .30-06 and .303 British rounds to convert to soft-point ammo.
I think I'll pass on both ideas!

[Fox]

I was going to post the same thing, lol!
And back in the day of plentiful surplus ammo, a lot of guys used to file the points off full-metal-jacket .30-06 and .303 British rounds to convert to soft-point ammo.
I think I'll pass on both ideas!

Ya, filing off the tip on a hollow base round caused the lead to go down range and leave the jacket as a bore obstruction, I actually have a 1910 round that was modified commercially like this, I found the proof that it was made in the 20s and not allowed to be sold as it was unsafe.

[MihajloSimsic]

What prohibited ammo? There are not very many, armor piercing pistol ammo is all that comes to mind.

the point being .410 slugs are so hard to find it's almost like they're illegal.

[Fox]

the point being .410 slugs are so hard to find it's almost like they're illegal.

Well, you just got 70 of them, and you did not take all that much time to do it.

Try to find 22 HP, 219 Zipper, 8x56R, 14ga shotgun shells, etc, etc, all legal and a lot more rare than 410 slugs.

Glad you were able to find some, now make sure that you know where they hit before you take them out, way too many people throw a box of slugs in their pocket for deer without ever pulling the trigger at a target.

[Gun Nut]

What prohibited ammo? There are not very many, armor piercing pistol ammo is all that comes to mind.

I think the way the idea of armour piercing ammo is getting played out these days leads to the misunderstanding.. The idea of it only applying to pistol ammo has gotten lost. It lacks more explanation why the prohibition. Our police use body armour for their protection, so they don't want armour piercing ammo for handgun in general circulation as handguns are the convenient of weapon of choice used by the criminal element. That said the body armour, that is use is ineffective against high powder rifle ammo or event buckshot in a shotgun. A while back there was an article of a guy who got his hands on some conventional body amour, put it on and asked his friend to fire a load of buckshot at him to prove its effectiveness. The principal behind body armour is that a spinning bullet get knurled in the fabric and gets stop. Buckshot, however, does not spin, so went straight through the vest and killed the guy.

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