I know this thread has been idle for a good peice of time but I got a bag of 12 ga wads for $3 and decided to try my hand at making glue slugs. I don't have a mold yet so I decided to try pumping the hot glue into the wad it's self. I started by cutting both ends off of an old 12 ga shell and placing a wad into it so that the wad would be in the right shape and sort of rigid. Then I just filled it up with hot glue and the first one turned out real nice. Unfortunately, with the glue gun on high, by the time I got the first first one cool enough to remove from the shell, the glue was so hot it melted my second wad faster than you can say worthless lump of goo!
After I turned the heat and waited for a few minutes I tried attempt 3. I t would have worked pretty well except that I removed the wad from the shell before it was cool enough to keep it's shape.
Attempt number 4 turned out pretty much exactly the same as number one.
Now I have a question. Do you think it is important to pry the glue-slug out of the wad before I load it in the shell or would you just load it as is?
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