Expedient Homemade Shotgun Ammo - P.A Luty, ABC - Łowiectwa, Elaboracja - Reloading, Elaboracja Podstawy
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Expedient Homemade Shotgun Ammo
EXPEDIENT
If old grandpa left you his old
12 gauge, or you want to shoot
that old pistol you came
across while cleaning the attic
(and don’t have any ammo!)
what do you do? If you can’t
buy ammo, or even primers
and re-loading presses from a
store, what do you do??
You will need to start from
scratch!
Expedient Homemade Ammo
provides all the information
you need to make simple and
effective ammo.
At the end of the day, you
don’t need ‘Presses & Primers’
to construct you own simple
improvised ammo using just a
few simple tools!
P. A. Luty
HOMEMADE
Expedient Homemade Shotgun Ammo
IMPROVISED HOMEMADE
12 GAUGE SHELLS
If, for whatever reason, you cannot buy your 12g shells from a store, you
may need to construct your own improvised 12g ammunition.
The following document illustrates how 12g shells can be easily and
quickly constructed with just a few simple tools and components.
Products required
1. 25mm MDPE pipe stiffeners.
2. 15mm wood dowel.
3. 15mm plumbing olives.
4. 8mm rubber nut caps.
5. Hot glue gun.
6. Shot - (Lead or BB’s)
7. Black powder.
8. .38 blank cartridge.
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The main body of the shell is a simple MDPE pipe stiffener available from
any good trade-plumbing outlet. The ones pictured below are used for
common blue
25mm
MDPE water pipe. The stiffener
(from here on referred
to as the shell)
is
20.3mm
in diameter. The shells inside diameter is
17mm
. Pipe stiffeners do vary slightly in dimension from maker to maker
so the manufacturing techniques illustrated here are based on the pipe
stiffeners I used in the writing of this document. Any 25mm pipe stiffener
may be used, but they may require slightly more trimming.
Common 25mm
pipe stiffeners.
A 25mm pipe
stiffener shown
alongside a
standard 12g
shell.
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TRIMMING THE SHELL
The first step is to reduce the rim of the shell to a thickness of 1.5mm (or
thereabouts) using a flat file. The shell is passed ‘back and forth’ over
the file until the rim is the correct thickness. This is a quick and simple
procedure. During the trimming procedure rotate the shell a quarter turn
every few ‘passes’ to ensure the rim is evenly reduced.
Reducing
the rim.
Checking the
rim thickness.
It should be 1-
1.5mm
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PRIMING THE SHELL
The next step is to prime the shell. For this we require a
.38 blank
cartridge and a
13mm
length of
15mm
diameter wood dowel.
The crimp of the blank is removed with a file.
Note:
If the blank is loaded
with black powder, the powder should be saved for later use.
DOWEL
BLANK
Empty .38 blank
and wood dowel
section.
OLIVES
Fit the olives.
The next step is to drill a
3/8” (9.5mm
) hole through the center of the
dowel section and fit the two brass/copper
15mm
plumbing olives.
After drilling the 3/8” hole coat the outside of the dowel with high
strength retainer such as ‘bearing fit’ and slide the olives over the
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