Shotgun slugs, what are they and how do they work?

One officer returned the fire, striking the man in the chest with two 12-gauge shotgun slugs.

A shotgun slug is typically far more massive than a rifle bullet.

Shotgun slugs are sometimes subject to specific regulation in many countries in the world.

The hunter must also have the legal right to use a rifle for such game in order to hunt with shotgun slugs.

The defense has tried to suggest, without evidence so far, that the shotgun slug was the first bullet fired in the gun battle.

Bino's car was hit three times by 12-gauge Brenneke-style shotgun slugs.

"The first shot was a police shotgun slug," Ms. Stewart said.

Most Eastern deer are taken at ranges of 60 yards or less, well within the range of a shotgun slug.

The car, at least, had lurched through so speedily that shotgun slugs couldn't wreck it.

Shotgun slugs thus are best suited for uses over shorter ranges than rifle bullets.

Yet another variant of a Great Depression era shotgun slug design is the cut shell.

Shotgun slugs have a far shorter maximum range than most rifle cartridges, and are safer for use near populated areas.

The ability to use shotgun slugs extends the range and penetration capability of the shotgun.

It is a cylinder which normally holds either lead shot or a shotgun slug made to be fired from the shotgun.

But that cartridge did not contain pellets; it held a shotgun slug, a lead ball about the size of a man's top thumb joint.

However, a shotgun slug sheds velocity more quickly than a spitzer bullet fired in a rifle.

These can be fired through a smoothbore barrel with reasonable accuracy, and significantly extend the effective range of a shotgun slug.

This is a type of shotgun slug designed to be fired through a smoothbore shotgun barrel.

Upon examining the carcass, Anderson noted that the tiger had one eye, the other having been badly damaged by a shotgun slug.

When used with a rifled slug barrel, they offer vastly improved accuracy compared to traditional shotgun slugs.

Rifle bullets and shotgun slugs pinged uselessly off the body of Rourke's truck.

Two rounds of shotgun slugs shattered the left half of the Land Rover's windshield.

The earliest shotgun slugs were just lead balls, of just under the bore diameter, allowing them to pass through the barrel.

A shotgun slug?