12 gauge Hand loaded slugs plywood penetration test

[Music] what's up guys I got an awesome video plan for today I've hand loaded several different 12-gauge slugs and we're gonna shoot them through the stick stack a half inch thick plywood boards then see just how far each one penetrates and I've done this exact same test before with some factory loaded three inch Magnum slugs and I was a little surprised with those results if you guys missed that video check it out I'll put a link in the description below let's take a look at the slugs we're gonna use today and all of these are loaded in federal three-inch rifled slug once fired holes and first up we got the LBC Sabo's from ballistic products and it's just the projectile alone without the wadding weighs three hundred and fifty five grains next up we got the Lyman giant pellet slug and that way is about four hundred and ninety two grains that's what it weighed up at and then we got the 690 round ball or the 69 caliber pumpkin ball and that's one way is 477 grains and last but not least we got the lead drive key seven eight ounce slug and this one weighed in at 350 for grains so the LBC sable slug and the lead drive key are both around three hundred and fifty grains and the 690 round ball and the Lyman pellet slug are both close to 500 grains and if anybody's wondering I got the LBC sable slug loaded up on 48 grains of longshot the pellet is loaded on 37 grains of longshot the 690 on 38.5 grains of longshot while the ly7 8000 is also on 48 grains of longshot so based off the results from the rifled slug plywood penetration test I think that should be plenty to stop these I've screwed 15 boards together which I'm hoping that alone will be enough but just in case we got reinforcements in the back and we're gonna shoot all four of these slugs through a 24 inch fully rifled barrel through the coronagraph which will only be about two feet in front of the muzzle that way we can register the ah City and then we'll also calculate the energy since we know the weight of these slugs first up we're gonna do the least seven eight ounce drive key on 48 grains a longshot 2368 wow that's a really fast 12 gauge slug so that's some pretty amazing velocity right there next up we'll try the 690 round ball I believe it was on thirty eight point five grands a long shot that one registered at eight seventy eight what's the heck okay so either for some reason that just shot really slow like the coronagraph registered or maybe it picked up the wadding after we see the results if the 690 didn't go very far then we it's safe to assume it did only shoot at 800 feet per second and if that's the case we'll retry the 690 next up is the Lyman pellet slug on 37 grains a long shot and that one didn't register it just says 878 again so it obviously failed to register and I don't think I'm the greatest it loading up my own slugs yet and I had plenty of powder in the round faster than that but now let's try the LBC sable slug on 48 grains a long show according to the load data this shoot coming to 1800 feet per second okay I think we're just having chronograph issues cuz that one says 3559 and there is no way that LBC came in at 35 59 it must be picking up wads or something mister on it off because I've never had issues with its chronograph before it's always been spot on with my rifles it's got to be the wadding Zoar something weird like that let's go check out the results [Applause] now we're gonna unscrew the boards and take a look and see how far those slugs went through we're just gonna go ahead and forget about calculating the muzzle energy since we had really strange chronograph results but anyways here's where our lead right key hit our Lyman pellet slug the 690 round ball and the LBC Sabo and we got multiple wadding impacts this was from the Lee I'm not sure what that's from and/or that probably the 690 since it's right there with the hole and those all put really big dents in the wood board number two they're all still going through and bringing lots of wood with them for three look at that that's crazy they all went through still board number four and it looks like our pellet slug is stuck right there that's weird I thought it would go through a lot more than that because the factory rifled slugs went through more than it's I figured my hand loads would go further than the factory slugs but other than the pellet slug all the rest of them went through there's our pellet stuck in the back of board four will dig that out later and even though the pellet slug stopped we still got a massive dent in board five from it the Lee the six ninety and the LBC still going through there's the din on the back from the pellet slug and board six still a little bit from the pellet but not too much anymore all three of the other slugs still went through and there's no dent on the back of board six from the pellet or number seven looks like all three of them went through still yeah there's no slug stuck in there I was confused for a second all three still went through board seven obviously just bring in tons of wood chips with it with them four to eight these ones are stuck together really tight so there's probably a slug in here no there's not they must have just been stuck from all those wood chips coming along with the slug paths and it looks like all three went through still somehow the LBC Sabo slug down here in the bottom right corner appears to have the biggest hole the whole time even the biggest entry on the first board and even here on board 8 it has the biggest exit this was the lead drive key it has the smallest hole [Music] port number nine all of them are still going through and lbc still has the biggest hole oh there's our six ninety round ball stuck on board number nine that actually did penetrate further then the rifled three inch Magnum slugs I believe like I said if you haven't seen that video make sure to check it out to compare what the penetrations of these hand loaded slugs but 690 round ball stuck on the back of board number nine the Lee and the LB seek have gone I'm assuming the Lee and LB seek have gone because they had much higher velocity with the much larger powder charge and although our 690 stopped has still put a massive din on board tin looks like our LBC and Lee kept going yep full pass throughs with the LBC and Lee 690 has a big dinner on the back and looks like there's our Lee slug embedded inside board number 11 LBC kept going so it looks like if you guys thought the LBC was gonna go the furthest you were right I was wrong I honestly thought the 690 round ball was gonna go through the furthest I should have realized though the LBC had 48 grains a long shot propelling it so it's probably moving pretty quick here's the back of board 11 and there's our Lee stuck right there LBC kept going and remember not only did the LBC go the furthest now it also had the biggest hole the whole way through and these are stuck together so I'm guessing it's probably right there we got a couple lead shavings right there lead fragments here's board number 12 the Li I mean the LBC went straight through the Li put a big old dent barely add in on the backside from the Li LBC big old exit and there's our LBC stuck right there so the LBC Sables the penetrated the furthest and it's embedded inside board 13 and it almost came out the back pretty awesome and of course that still put a giant dent on board 14 a little bit on the back but board 15 is completely unscathed so there's the extent of the LBC sable slug it made it into it lodged itself in the 13th 1/2 inch thick plywood board and put a big dent on the 14th pretty cool let's try and dig those slugs out now and here's a look at all of our slugs before and after the test lead drive kee 690 round ball Liman pellet and the LBC sable slug I'm not going to bother with measuring the diameters because I don't think the expansion in plywood is too important but let's check the weight retention and we'll start with the lead drive key it says buh here it is before the test and that one's coming in at 360 point 8 grains this won't tell us exact weight retention because some of them vary a little there if not all the exact same weight and this is that same ly drive key after the test it's really just a little scratched up on the top I could reload this one how it is three 37.4 I'm sure it lost a little bit of weight and here's the 690 round ball before and after the test this one actually took a lot more damage than I was expecting I kind of thought this one was gonna have the results of the lead drive key like pretty much no damage to it but it took some damage right here that's for sure unfired slug for 77.2 grains and the round ball recovered from the plywood for 39.8 and the pellet slug before and after the test this one seems to have pretty much taken the most damage the whole like nose of it is pretty much flattened and even the back is bent up a little still not too bad though this one might not be reloadable and the unfired pellet 450 point 2 grains and the fired pellet and the fired pellet is coming in at 488 point 2 grains and and our LBC Sabo I'll take that's wadding off okay this one might have actually taken the most damage now that I see it because it's flattened quite a bit it's a lot shorter than it was before the test and it's mushroomed quite a bit although it did have the most penetration but anyways the unfired slug 355 point six and the fired slug 306 even alright guys that's all for this hand loaded slug plywood penetration test video you guys like to make sure to give it a thumbs up subscribe to my channel if you haven't already also let me know what you think about the new TRO on this video I was thinking I was gonna do that for all my future uploads and if there's anything else you guys want to see just make sure to let me know and until next time thanks for watching

Channel: The Ballistician

Views: 3,190

Rating: 4.9534883 out of 5

Keywords: 690 round ball, 690 ball, lee drive, drive key, LBC sabot, lyman slug, 12 gauge slugs, sabot slugs, taofledermaus, kentucky ballistics

Id: dZFzWAQLQuc

Length: 13min 1sec (781 seconds)

Published: Tue Jun 11 2019