Shotgun Cutshells. Anyone ever heard of them?

[HART1]

A friend brought me a cutshell maker to try. I guess it's something this guy invented and sent a couple to my buddy to try.
Since my buddy doesn't shoot shotgun, he gave them to me to test.
I've read the inventors e-mails and it looks like it's a line up jig to cut slots in shotgun shells, so the whole shot comes out still inside of the front of the shell.
The inventor calls them a 70 cal safety slug. I have no idea what this would be used for yet. Any ideas?

 

[GUTTERRATT]

They have been around a long time

 

[strobro32]

It was an cheap way to have the same effect as slugs.

 

[HART1]

Okay, I see now.
The jig I have allows you to still be able to shoot the shells from a mag fed gun after the cuts have been made.
Thanks for the video.

 

[strobro32]

I found that you could roll over the shell case with a serrated steak knife and they would feed from the tube mag too.

 

[StooperZero]

shot cut shells a few months back out of an old H&R, impressive BUT

nothing I'd monkey with rapid fire.

 

[ddmau]

We used to do that when I was a kid ( A Loooooong time ago - they were paper/cardboard shells)

When done right, they are like a big Glasser Safety Slug.

 

[chili17]

you see them alot during dove season

 

[strobro32]

you see them alot during dove season

You have to! TX doves are HUGE!

 

[BuffDragon]

you see them alot during dove season

yep. if you happen to be hunting when a pig comes out, you just cut a shell and drop it in the chamber. pretty effective.
have also heard about just pouring hot wax into the shot of a shell, closing it back up, and essentially having the same thing.

 

[shooter17]

The old timers used to use these instead of round punkin balls before foster slugs became readily available.
But the way my Grandfather taught me was a little different than the video.
He would cut not quite half way through the shell then rotated it 180 deg and cut not quite half way through from the other side, leaving an intact
piece of plastic 180 deg on each side of the shell.

Shooter