Bigpops Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Never heard of this before today... http://www.ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com/2011/05/23/front-sights-monday-blog-got-slugs/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve RA Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 It's an old trick. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Corey Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
XRe Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Cool trick... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigbrowndog Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 an old poachers trick!! trapr Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
assaulter Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I like it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rub'n Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 I've heard of this before....thanks for the video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mickster Posted May 25, 2011 Share Posted May 25, 2011 Did some experimenting with this trick about 10 years ago. Only downside is if you send the entire shell, plastic and all, down a barrel with a full choke it'll try to compress the whole shebang and can do some damage to the end of the barrel. Soooo, if you want to play around with it, I would advise, don't do it with a fully choked gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DyNo! Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 (edited) I did it the other day with one round and an IC choke - it works. It didn't clear the ejection port in my Benelli M1 though and I had to tip the remaining half out with the bolt locked back. Obviously you can't load your tube with them and expect them to chamber: I'm not sure how accurate they are since I didn't shoot it more than 20 yards. The only time I'll be using this trick though is if I want slugs and all I have is birdshot and a knife. I'm sure 3-gun match directors would not be happy if you used cut shells as slugs though. Edited May 26, 2011 by DyNo! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TRUBL Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Also....potentially dangerous as well. Pressure goes up tremendously at the breech. A 12 gauge shotgun just isn't made to take a 12 gauge "shell" down the barrel.....as funny as that sounds. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aglifter Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Old farmboy trick - the important part was not to cut all the way through the shell, really just score it deep and to cut... Near the end of the wadding? Its been a... well, awhile, but I do remember that you had to cut into along the end of the wadding. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
latech15 Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 We used to use that trick when duck hunting on open water. We always carried a 12 ga single shot for that reason. We had three ducks light about 150 yards out and we cut a shell and fired it over their heads. "slug" hit the water 20 yards the other side of them. All three got up and flew our direction and we shot all three. Never happen again in a million years but it made for a great story that time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JD45 Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Go to trapshooters.com and search cut-shell. There was a long discussion on it a week ago. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark carr Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Ya in live pigeon shooting when you shoot the bigger rings guys called em bushwhackers you could take a winged bird at 50+ yds no problem. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-Ho Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 Ya in live pigeon shooting when you shoot the bigger rings guys called em bushwhackers you could take a winged bird at 50+ yds no problem. I was talking to an old trap and skeet guy who I learned the trick from. He was at a live pigeon shoot and an older guy had one get away. It landed on a fencepost about 80 yards away. The old timer pulled another shell and his knife and then said something about that little bastard just cost him a lot of money. He called it 'ringing a shell' I tried one on a coyote once with very interesting results. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
iainmcphersn Posted May 26, 2011 Share Posted May 26, 2011 One of my buddies borrowed his roommate's Mossberg 500 for a local 3 gun match. At LAMR, he could not get a shell to chamber. After some investigation, we found the front of a shell casing stuck in the chamber. Apparently the roommate had tried the "cut" shell trick but the front of the shell lodged in the chamber rather than heading downrange. Looks as though it is better suited for a break-open gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Bacus Posted May 27, 2011 Share Posted May 27, 2011 Haven't seen that in years, almost had forgoten about them! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Modoc Posted May 30, 2011 Share Posted May 30, 2011 Kinda germain to the discussion. A couple of years ago, SASS banned cut shells because of the pressure increase from pushing a 12ga mass down the bore. I was not part of the discussion and only found about the practice after it had been banned. No biggie for me, since I will usually run a heavier shot/load for stubborn steel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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