Looking to start casting slugs for my .410 single shot.

[glowe]

First off. I did a search for this and found little info.
I cast for my pistols, rifles and 12ga
Read that some people use a lee .41 mold to make bullets and shoot them like slugs.

Someone here has to have knowledge or tried this before.

I have plastic hulls and in the process of fire forming 303 brass.
Also have plastic and felt wads for .410 and a roll crimper

So, can someone point me in the right direction casting slugs for my .410
It's a single shot with mod choke.

Thanks

Greg

[dannyabear]

The ID of a plastic 410 shell is around .390", the ID of a wad is around .360", the OD of a 41 cal bullet is .410", it won't fit.. Maybe a 40 cal bullet. a 38 cal bullet is .358 and may be a better fit in a wad.

[bikerbeans]

I have read were others have loaded a 9 mm cast boolit with the nose in the base of a 410 wad to make a weight forward slug. You could try to glue a boolit into a wad to make a attached wad slug.

BB

[glowe]

Thanks for the info guys, Going to play with some ideas.

[W.R.Buchanan]

Glowe: goto Ballistic Products and look at their "Thug Slugs", which are about as far as you can go with the .410. These slugs have the wad connected to them and as such they fly pretty strait. Nothing else you can make is going to do any better. A regular pistol boolit is going to tumble as soon as it leaves the barrel since there is no rifling. Single Balls are just not big enough to be effective and if you load more then you have buckshot, still only effective to short range 40 yds and below.

The Thug Slugs are not very expensive and you'll do good with them.

Also look for Federal Factory Loaded 125 gr Slug Loads which are loaded to 1775 Fps! This takes the .410 single shot up to and past .357 magnum power.

Randy

[glowe]

Thanks Randy, Going to look at them.

[bdicki]

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