Re: Smooth Bore & Slugs
Posted: 13 Apr 2019 21:22
I had to buy some Lightfield Hybrid Lites and some Brenneke Tactical Home Defense Slugs for my own testing to establish baseline accuracy levels for my three guns.
I had to take both of them apart to see what was inside as I was very interested in what the slugs actually looked like. The one thing both had in common was that they were swaged not cast. Both slug had perfectly sharp trailing edges and as all you boolit casters know that is the steering end of the boolit.
But as far as being the end all, I have to defer. Both of these slugs were loaded into Regular RIO hulls just like available from BPI. The Brenneke slug was loaded into a Clear Rio hull and had the same headstamp as the ones I just bought. The Lightfield slug was loaded into an Orange RIO hull except it actually had a Light field Head stamp still it was identical in every other way to the ones I just bought last week.
In fact I reloaded those slugs back into new RIO hulls and you can hardly tell the difference.
My point here is that with the right payload you can load ammo just as effective as these companies offer at a fraction of the cost.
Here's pics of the loaded and reloaded store bought slugs. and a pic of a BPI 1 1/8 oz.Thug Slug that is very similar to a Brenneke, but "Swaged" in Italy by Gualandi. .70 cents each. Primed Hull .11 cents, add powder and crimp. Obviously "Cast Slugs" like some of the Russian ones will take about .70 cents out of that equation.
As far as an accuracy slug goes Lightfield sells an STI Slug for reloading. STI sells the Sabots for .40 each and
The mould for the insert is $25 and made from Lee blocks.
There is a way thru to Home Brewed Success here.
Randy
I had to take both of them apart to see what was inside as I was very interested in what the slugs actually looked like. The one thing both had in common was that they were swaged not cast. Both slug had perfectly sharp trailing edges and as all you boolit casters know that is the steering end of the boolit.
But as far as being the end all, I have to defer. Both of these slugs were loaded into Regular RIO hulls just like available from BPI. The Brenneke slug was loaded into a Clear Rio hull and had the same headstamp as the ones I just bought. The Lightfield slug was loaded into an Orange RIO hull except it actually had a Light field Head stamp still it was identical in every other way to the ones I just bought last week.
In fact I reloaded those slugs back into new RIO hulls and you can hardly tell the difference.
My point here is that with the right payload you can load ammo just as effective as these companies offer at a fraction of the cost.
Here's pics of the loaded and reloaded store bought slugs. and a pic of a BPI 1 1/8 oz.Thug Slug that is very similar to a Brenneke, but "Swaged" in Italy by Gualandi. .70 cents each. Primed Hull .11 cents, add powder and crimp. Obviously "Cast Slugs" like some of the Russian ones will take about .70 cents out of that equation.
As far as an accuracy slug goes Lightfield sells an STI Slug for reloading. STI sells the Sabots for .40 each and
The mould for the insert is $25 and made from Lee blocks.
There is a way thru to Home Brewed Success here.
Randy