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Gentlemen,

Thank you for your intersting.

No tests on DG as of now. We will try it in some wild boars in the next weeks although I don't consider them as DG.
In the penetration tests we made the US-S slug has outpenetrated every lead slug that we could find in the market, here. Some of them has been rumored to kill Cape Buffalo.

We all know that the use of brass as a raw material for making solid shotgun slugs necessitate the use of a sabot for obvious reasons. We made a lot of tests to find the sabot dimensions so that all four petals break at the same time. Actually we find them (in a calm day) at about 7-8m in front of the muzzle, all four of them at the same place.

Using a Benelli Nova 12ga., 3.5", smoothbore barrel shotgun with cylinder choke tube, accuracy was one hole for 5 shots at 25m and 5cm for 5 shots at 50m from the bench.
We will make some accuracy tests from a pressure gun next week and I'll report the results.

The stabizing wad is long enough to stabilize even the US-S 970 slug. No keyholes or other such problems when we tested them. The design of the slug does not make the use of a fully rifled barrel necessary. We used some rifled choke tubes with not much accuracy improvement.

We are discussing with a company importation of the slugs in the U.S.A. market.
We are also looking for importers in other countries as well.

If anyone is going to hunt big or dangerous game and will have a 12ga. with him, we will be glad to send some slugs for testing and load data with components available in E.U. countries.

Lefteris
www.europeancartridgeunlimited.com

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