Where to by slugs?(for slugging barrels)

I need to buy a few for a couple calibers(9mm & 45acp). What diameter lead balls do I need and where can they be bought?

"Had his shooting been as good as his running, he might have given a better account of himself."
James. C. Henderson

Boolit Master Join DateJul 2009LocationSF Bay AreaPosts290

melt some soft lead into an old case with a propane torch of the type you want to slug like a 38 special for a 38/357.

Then use inertia boolit puller to know out "slug" it will have the taper from the case on 1 end thats the end you put in barrel.
oil barrel and start it in.

Credit goes to someone on this site works well but then since i melt the lead into the clean case with a propane torch I figue the case would be very soft anneled which it is so i toss it and do not relaod it.

Boolit Mold Join DateJun 2013LocationSW MinnesotaPosts2

Take a fishing sinker and roll it between 2 hard surfaces until it is just a little larger than the barrel.

I am a little crud here as I take a finish hammer to flatten and widen a boolit

Last time I slugged a bore I used Wal Mart fishing line sinkers and got them to the needed diameter between two squares of steel plate stock. A little rollin' and hammerin' and I had what I needed in no time.

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.", old Chinese proverb.

I use a strip of scrap 1/2" plywood. I drill a bunch of holes through it (different sizes) and clamp it to a piece of flat steel. Fill the holes with melted roof jack, or other (closr to) pure lead, let cool and break away the plywood.

I use a strip of scrap 1/2" plywood. I drill a bunch of holes through it (different sizes) and clamp it to a piece of flat steel. Fill the holes with melted roof jack, or other (closr to) pure lead, let cool and break away the plywood.This falls into the infamous, "Why didn't I think of that" category. This I shall remember.

"Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.", old Chinese proverb.

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Abbreviations used in Reloading
Pointed Soft Point "Core Lokt"

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