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December 9, 2006, 01:00 PM
Okay folks, I'm a man of many hobbies (much to my wife's chagrin:D ).
I have this model airplane prop balancer, a perfectly good remmy rifled slug, and way too much time on my hands;) .Any way I decided to test the old rifled slug myth. Oh well I decided to destroy the shotgun shell with a razor knife and remove the slug. I removed the wad, a pinned the slug on the rest where the prop normally sits. After about 5 minutes of spinning it to get it oriented to the point where I would call it balanced. I took the wife professional hair dryer and pointed it at it...............:eek: :confused: The damn thing was spinning......slowly I'll be it but it was spinning with the hair dryer pointed at the front of it. Folks I have always felt that the rifleing on a slug would not spin even in flight.....that it was kind of a gimmick meant to sell slugs. I did this figuring I would put the myth to rest, at least in my own mind, for good. I have since retried this with three separate remmy slugger, all of them exhibited spin, from the force of a hairdryer ( I would only estimate maybe only 20 to 30 RPM ). Since the velocity they acheive leaving the barrel is far greater they would only spin faster.
Has anyone else tried anything to judge whether they can get spin out of a slug. I tried this way because it most represents how a slug would present a profile to the wind. I now doubt my previous position on this. I think slugs do spin, if they are fired in a IC gun, but not in the way you might expect. The rifling is more akin to they way fletching acts on an arrow.
Thought I might share this.......
I have this model airplane prop balancer, a perfectly good remmy rifled slug, and way too much time on my hands;) .Any way I decided to test the old rifled slug myth. Oh well I decided to destroy the shotgun shell with a razor knife and remove the slug. I removed the wad, a pinned the slug on the rest where the prop normally sits. After about 5 minutes of spinning it to get it oriented to the point where I would call it balanced. I took the wife professional hair dryer and pointed it at it...............:eek: :confused: The damn thing was spinning......slowly I'll be it but it was spinning with the hair dryer pointed at the front of it. Folks I have always felt that the rifleing on a slug would not spin even in flight.....that it was kind of a gimmick meant to sell slugs. I did this figuring I would put the myth to rest, at least in my own mind, for good. I have since retried this with three separate remmy slugger, all of them exhibited spin, from the force of a hairdryer ( I would only estimate maybe only 20 to 30 RPM ). Since the velocity they acheive leaving the barrel is far greater they would only spin faster.
Has anyone else tried anything to judge whether they can get spin out of a slug. I tried this way because it most represents how a slug would present a profile to the wind. I now doubt my previous position on this. I think slugs do spin, if they are fired in a IC gun, but not in the way you might expect. The rifling is more akin to they way fletching acts on an arrow.
Thought I might share this.......