YouTube has videos on how to convert cheap birdshot shells into even cheaper shotgun slug shells and of course I had to give it a try, super simple if you have the reloading equipment. Trim off the birdshot shells top pour the shot into your melting pot then you melt and cast the shot into a slug in my case a Lee 7/8 oz keyhole slug. Take the new slug and place it back into the birdshot shell and roll crimp it shut with a $20 dollar tool of the internet and an electric drill or even better a drill press. You now have a low recoil slug shotgun shell for about 25 cents as opposed to about 1 dollar per slug shell at the local Walmart. I chronograph the slug yesterday and got an average of 1270 fps the original birdshot shell says 1290 fps with the birdshot and my store bought slug shells are clocked at 1600 fps. For those who don't fire slugs much 1600 fps gets really old really fast on the shoulder so 1270 fps is a nice step down that you can fire a full 25 round box and not feel beaten up. I have only fired these at the 25 yard line and hitting 4 inch clays on the berm is as easy as if it was a rifle. When I make up another batch I will try them out for accuracy at the 50 and 100 yard line. Simple, cheap, and accurate cant ask for more. At hallways distance these would be a world of hurt.

