interesting video regarding Max distance a shotgun slug can travel

[quentyn]

food for thought - if a slug can only get 450 yds how far can No6 shot get ..... 

[Ultrastu]

Yeah i watched that .

If they had actually raised the gun to around 27 degree they would have got much more distance. As it was they stopped  about 10 degree .and hence only around 400 yds .

 

 

[wymberley]

Using the traditional figures and in standard atmospheric conditions a No 6 will travel 235 yards when fired at 20 degrees.

Using Federal's own figures the slug will travel 1649 at 32.

All figures "ish".

[quentyn]

and yet in the video he couldnt and then proved what was happening at the end with a hose pipe 

[motty]

A slug will travel a LOT further than 450 yards.

[Guest stevo]

33 minutes ago, motty said:

A slug will travel a LOT further than 450 yards.

I will bet my fantastic /hot  ****  on it 👍 

Edited September 27, 2018 by stevo

[TIGHTCHOKE]

What a load of horse ****! The internet is full of good stuff and then there's this **** you linked to Quentyn.

[Guest stevo]

Maybe we should ask him to get his mate to stand behind that door at 500 yards and let someone else have a couple of shots , I Could dig out some Brenneke that I’m pretty sure would mess that door up with a couple of shots 🤔

[Paul1440]

There's a video on youtube of a woman shooting an egg at 300yards with a 22lr. It took several goes to hit it but the misses weren't more than a foot away. 

British Archers were shooting arrows that far 400 years ago. 

I wonder if it's because it's a smoothbore gun.  By the time it gets very far it is  tumbling. 

Years ago there was a guy who brought an ex army 7.62  SLR to the range and couldn't hit the butts at 500 yards, never mind the target. 

Something didn't seem right as every few shots you could hear a fizzing sound as the bullet flew. 

On inspection it turned out the rifling had been worn so badly it was only just about visible. 

[Hamster]

Very interesting video, personally I'd have put money on the slugs reaching the door even with a shallow angle of hold over. It may well be that in this particular case the slugs shape and outer  "rifling" coupled to some sort of plastic sealing skirt contributes to slowing them down massively, they are after all meant as very short range hunting shells. 

I know for a fact even a sub 12 ft lb .177 pellet will go a long way with a bit of hold over. 

[Vince Green]

In Upstate New York, for public safety, deer hunting is restricted to shotguns with slugs because they don't carry all that far when the idiot hunters miss which they do most of the time. 

They do slow down very quickly  they are about as aerodynamic as a brick

Edited September 28, 2018 by Vince Green

[quentyn]

6 hours ago, Vince Green said:

In Upstate New York, for public safety, deer hunting is restricted to shotguns with slugs because they don't carry all that far when the idiot hunters miss which they do most of the time. 

They do slow down very quickly  they are about as aerodynamic as a brick

indeed i think that this is what people are forgetting 

he increased the angle of the shot and the slug dropped closer - if you look at the demo with the hose at the end you will see what he was getting at