Tactical Atlas Firearm Blog

In a departure from everyone else smoking pumpkins this month, shotgunners Taofledermaus did a Halloweeny video shoot with some gifted 12 gauge slugs made from recycled silver dollars to see just what they could do.

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Taofledermaus and Edwin Sarkissian trekked out to the swamp for a game of dice, propelled via 12 gauge shotgun shell.

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The 12 gauge specialists over at Taofledermaus took a sheet of ballistic glass and went to town on it with an international buffet of slugs from around the world.

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Using a waterjet to carve a Brunswick Fireball lane clearer into slugs that will fit into a 12 gauge hull, Taofledermaus takes on a bowling lane locker door, clay, gummy bears and more.

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In their latest episode of "you make it we shoot it" the shotgunners over at Taofledermaus test some handcrafted 12 gauge slugs made from Mexican Ironwood (disclaimer: that is not a Tejano thrash metal band).

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Ammo aficionados Taofledermaus lined up 10 5.56mm cartridges tip to tail, rigged a tube to hold them all, and set up a BB gun to set off the first round to see what would happen.

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Exotic shotgun shell masters, Taofledermaus, squeezed the Charmin in an effort to make a few shotgun slugs out of shaped and chilled 2-ply.

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What to do when you have an AK, 47 old hard desktop hard drives you are tasked to get rid of, and a stack of 7.62x39mm Chinese steel core and Russian hollowpoints?

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Taofledermaus ups their exotic shotgun shell game by testing the LE Super Sock bean bag round and the Stabili-Shock rubber bullet.

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The home of exotic shotgun shell experimentation, Taofledermaus, gave some in-house produced "glitter bomb" slugs a try, with rather sparkling results.

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The Taofledermaus crew of merry shotgunners found surprising success with a .70 caliber polycarbonate round with a carbide penetrator against hard plate armor.

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The Taofledermaus crew took 14 six-penny finishing nails and set them in wax inside a 12 gauge shotgun shell, then broke out the celery.

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