Expedient Homemade Shotgun Ammo.pdf

Expedient Homemade Shotgun Ammo

EXPEDIENT

If old grandpa left you his old

12 gauge, or you want to shoot

that old pistol you came

across while cleaning the attic

(and don’t have any ammo!)

what do you do? If you can’t

buy ammo, or even primers

and re-loading presses from a

store, what do you do??

You will need to start from

scratch!

Expedient Homemade Ammo

provides all the information

you need to make simple and

effective ammo.

At the end of the day, you

don’t need ‘Presses & Primers’

to construct you own simple

improvised ammo using just a

few simple tools!

P. A. Luty

HOMEMADE

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IMPROVISED HOMEMADE

12 GAUGE SHELLS

If, for whatever reason, you cannot buy your 12g shells from a store, you

may need to construct your own improvised 12g ammunition.

The following document illustrates how 12g shells can be easily and

quickly constructed with just a few simple tools and components.

Products required

1. 25mm MDPE pipe stiffeners.

2. 15mm wood dowel.

3. 15mm plumbing olives.

4. 8mm rubber nut caps.

5. Hot glue gun.

6. Shot - (Lead or BB’s)

7. Black powder.

8. .38 blank cartridge.

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The main body of the shell is a simple MDPE pipe stiffener available from

any good trade-plumbing outlet. The ones pictured below are used for

common blue 25mm MDPE water pipe. The stiffener (from here on referred

to as the shell) is 20.3mm in diameter. The shells inside diameter is

17mm . Pipe stiffeners do vary slightly in dimension from maker to maker

so the manufacturing techniques illustrated here are based on the pipe

stiffeners I used in the writing of this document. Any 25mm pipe stiffener

may be used, but they may require slightly more trimming.

Common 25mm

pipe stiffeners.

A 25mm pipe

stiffener shown

alongside a

standard 12g

shell.

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TRIMMING THE SHELL

The first step is to reduce the rim of the shell to a thickness of 1.5mm (or

thereabouts) using a flat file. The shell is passed ‘back and forth’ over

the file until the rim is the correct thickness. This is a quick and simple

procedure. During the trimming procedure rotate the shell a quarter turn

every few ‘passes’ to ensure the rim is evenly reduced.

Reducing

the rim.

Checking the

rim thickness.

It should be 1-

1.5mm

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PRIMING THE SHELL

The next step is to prime the shell. For this we require a .38 blank

cartridge and a 13mm length of 15mm diameter wood dowel.

The crimp of the blank is removed with a file. Note: If the blank is loaded

with black powder, the powder should be saved for later use.

DOWEL

BLANK

Empty .38 blank

and wood dowel

section.

OLIVES

Fit the olives.

The next step is to drill a 3/8” (9.5mm ) hole through the center of the

dowel section and fit the two brass/copper 15mm plumbing olives.

After drilling the 3/8” hole coat the outside of the dowel with high

strength retainer such as ‘bearing fit’ and slide the olives over the

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