Just so I don't create too much thread wander in my 7/8 oz. Brenneke'ized Lee Slug thread I decided to start another thread and post pics of some of the things that have come up in the thread and my "experiments" that are not Lee slugs.
Over the years I have tried a variety of hollow base slugs both filled and unfilled, and with attached wads, solid slugs with attached wads, copper tube slug skirts, nitro card attached wads, hot melt glue attached wads, felt attached wads, machined polyethylene attached wads and maybe a few others.
Lately I have been trying to improve accuracy of Lee slugs by attaching wads both cast on and screw attached with some success and recent failure... or at least not much if any improvement.
Below is a pic of a few of the variations I have tried in both wad slugs and full bore slugs:
From left to right (okay then it posted 90° rotated so... from bottom to top!):
- 0.662" RB on two nitro card wads in a 12 ga. unslit CSD wad, cup cut length to suit~ obviously bore diameter. These work pretty well with press in balls or slugs.
- 0.678" RB on flaired copper tubing ~ bore diameter: These gave sticky extraction for some reason so I did not pursue it any further. The copper tube was flaired inside a piece of 12 ga. barrel so was exactly bore diameter. I suspect the ball set back under acceleration flairing the tube more but...? No, no choke, it was a cylinder bore gun.
- 0.678" RB on bottom flaired copper tubing ~ wad slug: these worked but not the best accuracy. A bit more story on this... I had previously tried 0.662" RB on unflaired copper tubing and they shot pretty well but required cloth patching to bring them up to good fit so were a bit of a pain to make. I decided if I went with 0.678" RB and copper tubing flaired to suit the bottom diameter of the shotcup they'd be easier to make and shoot the same. They did not but maybe fit to wad issue?
- TC solid slug on flaired copper tube ~ wad slug: Same idea as previous with round balls but using a shank that fit the tubing. Again, not as accurate as I would have expected. Possibly fit to wad wasn't great.
- TC solid as previous but with bore diameter front band and screw for casting glue wad or flaired copper tubing to bore diameter ~ bore diameter: Haven't tried these.
- 12 ga. unslit CSD wad with same slug pressed in and two nitro card wads under, cup cut to suit ~ bore diameter: Haven't tried these.
If cast from soft lead I suspect Lee slugs could be sized down to fit into CSD or other unslit wads for a non-discarding sabot slug. Most of the info here was not really related to the 7/8 oz. Brenneke'ized Lee slug thread so I put it here for what it is worth.
Longbow