Anyone try elmers glue slugs?

[Steelersfan]

So i'm sure you have all heard of wax slugs. Cut shell open, mix hot wax with birdshot, pour it back in. I saw a video of a guy that used elmers glue and did the same thing. It seems hot glue is the more popular route, but it makes a huge mess. I just wanted to know if anyone has tried this and if there is any danger? I made 5 of them with some wood glue I had laying around with #8 birdshot, and I made sure to keep weight of the glue slug round the same as factory (more glue means the loss of some birdshot to keep weight consistant), but I have seen some youtube videos of some barrels blowing up with wax slugs, and I will not take that risk if it does exist. Also, I would shoot it out of my mossberg 500, but would load them one at a time because I don't know how they would act trough the mag tube.

 

[iH8DemLibz]

It just gunpowder, steel, and wood under tremendous pressure.

I don't see any problems with trying it.

Yank that trigger.

 

[shaddydan]

What could possibly go wrong

 

[E.Shell]

So i'm sure you have all heard of wax slugs. Cut shell open, mix hot wax with birdshot, pour it back in. I saw a video of a guy that used elmers glue and did the same thing. It seems hot glue is the more popular route, but it makes a huge mess. I just wanted to know if anyone has tried this and if there is any danger? I made 5 of them with some wood glue I had laying around with #8 birdshot, and I made sure to keep weight of the glue slug round the same as factory (more glue means the loss of some birdshot to keep weight consistant), but I have seen some youtube videos of some barrels blowing up with wax slugs, and I will not take that risk if it does exist. Also, I would shoot it out of my mossberg 500, but would load them one at a time because I don't know how they would act trough the mag tube.

If you will abandon this idea, I will GIVE you a 12 gauge shotgun slug.

 

[Boom Boom]

I made 5 of them with some wood glue I had laying around with #8 birdshot

"Liquid at room temperature" wood glue?

 

[Fishguy]

If you must goof around with shotgun ammo like that, Google 'cut slugs'. Similar idea but safer.

But really, real factory slugs are less than a dollar a piece. What advantage are you trying to get with the idea?

 

[Steelersfan]

If you must goof around with shotgun ammo like that, Google 'cut slugs'. Similar idea but safer.

But really, real factory slugs are less than a dollar a piece. What advantage are you trying to get with the idea?

I have found slugs at a dollar a piece around where I live. I happen to have many of them, but at 25 cents a piece, I can shoot all day.

 

[Steelersfan]

"Liquid at room temperature" wood glue?

well they dried up, so it must not be liquid at room temperature seeing as how my house is set at 68

 

[Steelersfan]

If you will abandon this idea, I will GIVE you a 12 gauge shotgun slug.

Nah, thats ok, I must have a hundred high velocity slugs. I shoot at an indoor range where the person next to you's target is inches from yours. A few times with bird and buckshot, the spread has hit their target. I don't like to do that to people and I got 200-300 rounds of birdshot I will never shoot otherwise.

 

[Boom Boom]

New 3% thread?

 

[Steelersfan]

New 3% thread?

 

[smokey]

What indoor range lets you shoot birdshot?

Save the birdshot for clay games and just use slugs, or some federal flitecontrol buckshot...hornady uses essentially the same wad for their critical defense/zombie ammo. Or just toss a tighter choke in if you want to shrink your shot cloud.

 

[shaddydan]

New 3% thread?

Ding! Ding! Ding!

 

[smokey]

A while back someone posted info on some bullets they made. The poster said he used 2 ingots of pure lead and 1 ingot of 3% antimony...so his bullets were 3% antimony. Hilarity ensued as just about everyone tried everything they could think of...including drawing diagrams...to point out his errors. The poster just got annoyed and more nonsensical, turning a thread about bullets he casted into epic MSF hall of shame material.

Basically they're saying your posts are coming across as similarly nonsensical.

btw...what gun are you planning on shooting these out of as a frame of reference to work from?

 

[teratos]

Solution in search of a problem?

 

[montoya32]

So i'm sure you have all heard of wax slugs. Cut shell open, mix hot wax with birdshot, pour it back in. I saw a video of a guy that used elmers glue and did the same thing. It seems hot glue is the more popular route, but it makes a huge mess. I just wanted to know if anyone has tried this and if there is any danger? I made 5 of them with some wood glue I had laying around with #8 birdshot, and I made sure to keep weight of the glue slug round the same as factory (more glue means the loss of some birdshot to keep weight consistant), but I have seen some youtube videos of some barrels blowing up with wax slugs, and I will not take that risk if it does exist. Also, I would shoot it out of my mossberg 500, but would load them one at a time because I don't know how they would act trough the mag tube.

You're a Steelers fan? Go for it. I am sure it is perfectly safe. Lol

JK, I would not want to glob up my barrel with wax or glue.

 

[shaddydan]

Seriously OP, I think you answered your own question with the "guns blown up" comment. This is just a really bad idea. BTW, cut shells are only a last resort kinda round.

 

[Steelersfan]

What indoor range lets you shoot birdshot?

Save the birdshot for clay games and just use slugs, or some federal flitecontrol buckshot...hornady uses essentially the same wad for their critical defense/zombie ammo. Or just toss a tighter choke in if you want to shrink your shot cloud.

My barrel doesn't take chokes. I got an 8 shot mag tube and 20'' barrel for it so it is not threaded for a choke.

 

[Steelersfan]

A while back someone posted info on some bullets they made. The poster said he used 2 ingots of pure lead and 1 ingot of 3% antimony...so his bullets were 3% antimony. Hilarity ensued as just about everyone tried everything they could think of...including drawing diagrams...to point out his errors. The poster just got annoyed and more nonsensical, turning a thread about bullets he casted into epic MSF hall of shame material.

Basically they're saying your posts are coming across as similarly nonsensical.

btw...what gun are you planning on shooting these out of as a frame of reference to work from?

I got a mossberg 500 with a 20 inch cylinder bore barrel bore barrel

 

[Steelersfan]

Seriously OP, I think you answered your own question with the "guns blown up" comment. This is just a really bad idea. BTW, cut shells are only a last resort kinda round.

I didn't say the glue slugs blew up, the more popular wax slug blew up. Turns out the guy had a squib in his previous round where the wax slug got lodged in the barrel. When he shot the next slug, it hit the previous slug, which created enough pressure to blow up the barrel.