No need to buy slugs

[RiverRat]

New info for me, thought I'd share. Hadn't seen this before.

http://www.2ndamendmenttv.com/videos/sh ... -pt-1.html

[MoJo]

Not a good idea - - - there has been more than one gun blown up doing that. The shell is too big for the bore of the shotgun - - - pressure will go sky high.

[Rex B]

I don't have a shotgun handy, but aren't most/all of them straight bore, where the entire bore is the same ID as the OD of the shell?
Unlike a rifle which has a step in diameter from chamber to bore.

If that is true, then the pressure will probably be higher just because the cut case would fill the bore more completely than a wad and a shot cup w/shot.
I'd want to be sure I had a cylinder bore.

[MoJo]

I don't have a shotgun handy, but aren't most/all of them straight bore, where the entire bore is the same ID as the OD of the shell?
Unlike a rifle which has a step in diameter from chamber to bore.

If that is true, then the pressure will probably be higher just because the cut case would fill the bore more completely than a wad and a shot cup w/shot.
I'd want to be sure I had a cylinder bore.

No they have a chamber just like a rifle or pistol. Otherwise you wouldn't need a 3" or 3 1/2" gun to shoot the longer shells. I'll buy some slugs myself thank you. Those three goobers looked like refugees from "Deliverance."

[Rex B]

If that was so common in the early 20th century, when so many of the old guns had Damascus steel barrels, you'd think Darwin would have taken care of that notion.

[MoJo]

He did - - - just didnt get 'em all.

edit:
Oh yea, damascus barrels won't take the pressure of smokless loads much less a cut shell.