[AcceptableUserName]

into hollow points. seems like this could be done with a drill bit and made similar to a Super X HP slug. Is this dangerous? I mean I'm not going to be drilling down to the primer or anything. I even suggest this at all because in my area, sluggers are dirt cheap and more plentiful than any other slug.

[redneck2]

Question would be "why". HP's are produced so that you can make a bigger hole with a smaller projectile. Since a 12 gauge leaves a minimum .712 hole, you'll most likely not improve on that very much. Also, pure lead splats out and flattens anyway. The body of the slug is hollow, so any meaningful expansion would most likely blow the slug to tiny pieces unless the hole was pretty shallow.

Sabots are HP or plastic tipped. They are smaller to start with and fly considerably faster. Expansion is pretty violent.

[FLNT4EVR]

Totaly unnecessary. And seeing as the nose of the slug is probably less than 3/16 thick, your drill would zip thru before you could stop it.

[Lee Lapin]

You don't really want to be messing around with Foster type slugs. They're cup shaped, hollow on the inside, with the hollow facing down toward the inside of the shell. That gives them a weight-forward distribution so they fly nose forward, like a badminton shuttlecock.

They're already soft lead, and will flatten on impact with anything hard. They don't need to be hollowpointed.

Best advice I can give is to start dissecting a round of any shotgun ammo you have any questions about, and look at its components. You can test the hardness of lead projectiles in various ways to compare from brand to brand or load to load. You can examine wad setup, check for buffering, plated or hard lead pellets, etc. That way when you fire a round of it for patterning, you will know what you're launching.

Just don't smoke while you're exposing the powder charge...

lpl

[Youngster]

Foster slugs flatten out and expand all too readily anyway, I greatly prefer Brenneke type slugs for serious use because they make for a penetration path that's straighter as well as deeper, Fosters can deflect wildly at times.