Do you see yourself using this product?
http://money.cnn.com/2014/01/3...index.html?iid=HP_LN

No



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Hell, no! My groups would look like shothispants.

I saw a gentleman trying to pedle these bullets at the SHOT Show. He did not have a booth, just sitting at the tables in the eating area. He was not generating a lot of interest. Suitcase selling at the SHOT Show is not allowed, I only saw him the first day. Looked like some kind of Rube Goldberg contraption to me.

Well, I dunno. I used to be an excellent pistol shot while I could still see open sights. I don't practice much anymore but still can hold my own. OTOH, we all seem to think that self defense, home defense situations occur under ideal conditions. In fact, we might be half awake, half drunk, in the middle of sex, whatever, in the dead dark when the front or back door crashes in. Under those conditions, a multiple hit bullet MIGHT not be all bad.

Subject to further research, I MIGHT load them in weapons for home defense for my wife and kids, if I was going to be away.

There is a thread on them in the self defense forum with a link to their site with videos.

People used to lace buckshot rounds together with wire or heavy monofiliment and coil it into a shotgun shell. Same concept. Not too bad a concept, but with a pistol, what would be wrong with just a diagonal cut across the bullet, with a plastic shroud to hold it together out the bore. At close range, no filiment needed.

It says Todd Kuchman is an entrepreneur and elk hunter in Colorado that wanted to improve his chances of hitting his target.

Hmm there is this thing called practice?

I was hoping he was referring to self-defense only. I would think in a hunting situation, either the ballistic fiber would fail, or else it would seriously interfere with projectile penetration.

I'm with you; no substitute for practice.

This is a very old idea, and it was implemented in the era of smoothbore artillery. Were such gun "chain shells" for the destruction of rigging, but also on the land they were very effective. I read somewhere that Turks mowed Serbian troops in the battle of Kosovo by such shells, when Serbia lost its independence for hundreds of years.
Some enthusiasts have used the "associated shotshellt" when hunting wild boar. But such shells are complicate, fly wrongly, and there is a danger that the fragment of the projectile would travel back.

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Originally posted by lavaca:
People used to lace buckshot rounds together with wire or heavy monofiliment and coil it into a shotgun shell. Same concept. Not too bad a concept, but with a pistol, what would be wrong with just a diagonal cut across the bullet , with a plastic shroud to hold it together out the bore. At close range, no filiment needed.

Say casting a boolit with a piece of tinfoil between the mould halves?

"Todd Kuchman is an entrepreneur and elk hunter in Colorado that wanted to improve his chances of hitting his target"

I can see the advantages for close in self defense but I really wonder how accurate they would be at typical elk hunting distances. I can visualize that whirligig flapping way out of the line of sight at 150 yards .