My brother gave me a Lee slug mold play with. As anybody else cast any of them and shot them.

Make sure you use pure lead to cast. Accuracy is about the same as a foster style slug. The Lee key drive slug in 12 ga. l oz. will not shoot as accurately as a factory sabot slug.

Maby it's me getting lucky,but,in 1999,I bought 2 boxes of lightfield sabots.Mounted a 4 x32 simmons on a cantaliever rem. 1100 rifled barrel.Set up the barrel and scope assy.on sandbags at the range to boresight the scope and barrel @ 100yds..Mounted barrel into reciver,shot 2 sabots,coming within 1.5" of the x.I left it at that,,and drop a whitetail clean every season .I do a test round every season,,same thing every time.What i'm getting to is I could'nt justify setting up to roll my own slugs/sabots,when 10 shells of the same lot # gets me by for a few years at a time.Any way,,Happy shoting/rolling,Clay.

I think they're intended to be shot out of a rifled barrel. Without rotation (or fins), I wouldn't expect anything to fly straight for long. The wad engages the rifling, and the drive key give the wad something to grab on to when it imparts rotation to the slug. I've got me one of those moulds too (but no rifled barrel), and I am itching to play with it.

H. C.

I'M PRETTY HAPPY WITH THE LEE SLUGS...
HAVE USED ONLY THE 1 OZ SIZE AND HAD NO TROUBLE WITH BRICKS AT 50 YDS..
WILL BE CASTING SOME 7/8 THIS SUMMER.
HAVE NOT TRIED THEM WITH RIFLED BARRELS.
FOR PLAY, CAN'T BEAT THE PRICE......
BROJ

My Lee slug moulds cast fine using wheelweights. The trick is getting the core pin hot. The first one I cast stuck bad so I shoved the whole mould into the pot to melt it off. Being stubborn, when I had it melted off, I tried again. That time it worked so I routinely dunk the mould, core pin and all, at the start of a casting session.

I purchased the lee mold and cast a bunch and shot them through my 24" rifled barrel. I never was able to get a pattern anywhere close to factory sabots, I have been meaning to load some of the lee slugs at lower velocity to see if they improve. I was able to retrieve some of the wads that the lee were loaded in and they all displayed the engagement of the rifling without any shearing meaning the slugs had to be spinning when they came out of the barrel but the accuracy was unacceptable.