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Attempting to turn a shotgun into a railroad spike driver (VIDEO)

Responding to a question concerning the possibility of driving a standard railroad spike into a block of wood using shotgun slugs, the Taofledermaus research team ran an experiment.

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Lock and load: Blasting lock parts out of a 12 ga shotgun (VIDEO)

After being gifted into a bag of lock core cylinders without keys, the shotgun testers over at Taofledermaus stuffed them inside a 12 gauge low brass hull and went to the range.

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Testing the effectiveness of breakfast cereal-filled shotgun shells (VIDEO)

With news last week of a suspect facing multiple charges after he shot a man with a shotgun shell stuffed with Rice Krispies, the crew at Taofledermaus went to work.

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400-year-old musket balls still work just fine when loaded in a shotgun (VIDEO)

Gifted a sack of relic musket balls from the 1600s dug up around the British Isles, the shotgun squad at Taofledermaus loaded them up in hulls and took to the range.

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Giving some aging Aguila Minishells a bit of ballistic testing (VIDEO)

The shotgun scientists at Taofledermaus chanced upon a yellowing box of Aguila's abbreviated 12 gauge slugs and gave them the run down.

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Silly Putty is fun for the whole family, especially when loaded in a 12 ga (VIDEO)

Basically a non-Newtonian fluid, Silly Putty packed into borosilicate glass test tubes and then stuffed in a shotgun shell produces curious results when fired.

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Drone defense shotgun shells tested in action (VIDEO)

Collectors of shotgun shell curiosities, Taofledmermaus, undertook a test of the "Skynet Drone Defense" 12 gauge shell.

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