28 gauge

[6pt-Sika]

And I cast fifty of the little slugs yesterday the average weight of five of them this AM was 228.5 grains . With a modicum of common sense I believe these little guys can do in an average sized whitetail inside 35-40 yards .

[6pt-Sika]

Well provided they shoot decent groups they should have enough get up and go to plunk a whitetail and be fatal inside 35-40 yards .

[edgarspencer]

Sitting in the wad, they almost look like a sabot. What kind of clearance do you have between slug diameter are bore? Lists of short barreled 28ga guns we’re still choked tight and I’d hate to have you bulge your barrels.

[6pt-Sika]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

Sitting in the wad, they almost look like a sabot. What kind of clearance do you have between slug diameter are bore? Lists of short barreled 28ga guns we’re still choked tight and I’d hate to have you bulge your barrels.

You and me both ! Had to wait long enough to get one , be a heck of a thing to trash it the first month I had it . I’ll try tommorrow at the shop . I usually put a slug in the shot cup and push it thru with a dowel Rod or rather see how tight it is going thru the choke . If it’s to tight I’ll cut the petals off and try with a .003” mylar wrap .

[Kevin McCormack]

Originally Posted by edgarspencer

Sitting in the wad, they almost look like a sabot. What kind of clearance do you have between slug diameter are bore? Lists of short barreled 28ga guns we’re still choked tight and I’d hate to have you bulge your barrels.

This is so scary!! Slugs "rattling down" the barrels remind me of the
time we didn't swage the smaller white potatoes we fired out of our "Spud Cannon" (a Rube Goldberg device resembling a recoiless rifle, made up from PVC plumbing pipes and joints of different diameters. (Think mini-clones of "Pumpkin Chunkin" ordnance).

The chamber was made up from a common PVC toilet union reducer collar going from 3 1/2 to 2 1/2 inch, mated with a 4 foot PVC 2 1/2 inch barrel. The toilet union had a threaded plug in the rear; you charged the cannon for each shot with a robust spray of WD-40, hairspray, oven cleaner, or G-96 Gunscrubber (about a 5-second burst, then screwed the cap on tight).

Ignition was a common gas grill piezo lighter fixture, epoxied into the chamber wall. The muzzle of the barrel was reverse-chamfered (sharpened) with a sander to a sharp edge. Potatoes of just over-diameter muzzle size were swage-fit (hammered) into the barrel so they fit tight and the excess shaved off to fall away.

With proper propellant charge and safe line of fire, this thing would take a hardball-sized chunk of bark down to moist tissue off of the biggest tree we could aim at within 30-35 yards.

The time we didn't pay attention to excess pulp, the forward end of the chamber area (think forcing cone) and the rest of the barrel disintegrated into 2-3 ft. plastic shards upon detonation. Apparently that someone had used carburetor cleaner for the charge didn't help (loaded with MEK, Ether & acetone!).

Be careful!! Hate to see those Vulcan tubes turned into wind chimes!

[6pt-Sika]

I’ve got the little 28 in a gun sock inside the gun boot on my ATV . It’ll go along in the morning with my 6mm-06 . Just to make myself feel okay about taking it I tried three slugs out the right at 25 yards and a load of #1 buck out the left also at 25 yards today before putting it in the gun boot.

[6pt-Sika]

Went out this AM carried the little VH 28 instead of a 10 gauge today along with my 6mm-06 . No deer but I did see four or five big fat turkey hens .

[6pt-Sika]

I know this sounds kinda lame but the 28 stayed in a gun sock from the kitchen in the house until I was situated up the tree then back in the sock before coming down and until I got back in the house