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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqftpAhwks

I always wondered what that would do...
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Growing up I found Marbles to be among the best choices for use out of my wrist rocket when hunting squirrels and rabbits.

Makes me curious now what velocity that surgical tubing produced.

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impressive... :)
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Those TFM guys are crazy. If you asked nicely, I'm pretty sure they'd fire a ham sandwich out of a shotgun :lol:

I was amazed at the durability of the marble.
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Being the curious type, I checked on Amazon and marbles are about the same price each as .22 rimfire :o
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12 ga. is a great platform for an amazing number of 'specialty' loadings. My Dad wrapped a Timkin Tapered Roller Bearing in oiled linen, loaded it in place of a Magnum load of 00 Buck and fired it through 3/8" thick steel easily. My "fun" load is a .720" diameter ball cast of wheelweights at 1450 fps from 18" barrels of a double. Anymore it don't seem so much fun on old shoulders.
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my fun load is a .69 cal round ball in the shot cup of a bird shot shell, replacing the shot with equal weight. melt the shot, repeat.... I have the molds but so far haven't cast anything. this should work just as well with a ball bearing. it's more accurate than I would have guessed at living room barn yard ranges. I guess I should look for some 69 cal marbles. That should be a substantial velocity increase, eh?
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Looking at my stuff I realize my earlier post was in error ... the round ball is cast from a mold I got from Dixie Gun Works and it cast a .730" ball ... full bore diameter. You really don't want to shoot these through a choked barrel. The ball weighs over 560 gr. from wheelweights.
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The round ball is shown with one of the slugs I was experimenting with. The ball is more accurate.
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I used a regular wad (top) but cut the "fingers" off (bottom)
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My standard load was 28 gr. of Unique.
I shot several cars with these and never had a ball stop in a car.
Penetration was quite amazing.
This was our camp gun when camping in bear country.
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My 20ga load - 370 grs pure lead ball (.626") over 95 grs 2F black powder for 1350 fps.

Next to a 30-06 case for perspective.
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