@ZekeZX10 , Yes, Press slug is ergonomic, but its not built like a tank. Corbin is not smooth around the edges but its built like a tank. Both of these presses are axially aligned. Corbin needs adjustment to center align its punch. Its a one time effort. Whereas press slug also needs alignment, Both of these dies use the die center to align the hollow point pin so its always centered.
Right and prudent use of Corbin tech gives you precise slugs, so does press slug ( I reserve my comments on accuracy though, as
@sb327 mentioned )
Both these systems cost a lot , and that's because each and every single part of Corbin press is precision ground, while press slug is CNC machined. Grinding and honing is more precise. Both of the manufacturers employ expensive machines to get it done.
But its the marketing that Press Slug has championed.
Earlier I had a very controversial opinion, I could have easily offended a lot of people. But here it is.
1. The company that still ships its 177 - 30 cal air rifles with pellet barrels made by Lothar Walther is marketing and distributing 177 - 357 cal slug swaging equipment in calibers suited primarily to FX air rifles and its STX slug liners. ( I am not talking about their big bores ). Hypocrisy is that they themselves use cast big bore slugs to compete in competitions, they dont swage their own competition ammo in those calibers on the equipment they market.
2. A British company is selling Howler repackaged slugs in sizes suited to FX air rifles STX slug liners. And they themselves use pellets in all competition formats !
3. A Russian company is doing what these both are doing simultaneously, Its founder once said that he wont jump on the Slug band wagon. And still uses LW pellet barrels while marketing slug making equipment.
How controversial can this be?
We offend a lot of people by stating facts at work or on projects, but honesty saves the day for us. I've explained how LW pellet barrels are not ideal for slugs over 50 yards (
https://www.airgunnation.com/threads/not-all-barrels-can-shoot-slugs.1294366/#post-1540709 ),
Yet people commit the cardinal mistake of using slugs made for FX barrels and complain about inconsistent performance when the POI shifts with a new batch of slugs. On other hand we have FX air rifles slinging slugs all day long at NRL PRS, RMAC, NEAC and regional matches at 100 plus yards, But you wont find a lot of them doing the same in a factory stock pellet guns of FX as well. A fact that you can verify on how often you have to clean your pellet barrels post a session of shooting slugs.
The only way to make slugs work in any gun is by testing and tuning them, testing sizes, weights and diameters. And only when a given size works that's when we replicate the diameters in a swaging setup. Historically speaking, 216, 217 , 218's are the sizes that popped up around 2015-2017, before that we had cast slugs and 22 LR bullets pushed through sizers, Nick was working out of his garage. I was texting Matt and
@SorenDrost about the successful test of 177 and 22 stepped ogive slug swage die.
@Ezana4CE said, Its important for information to be made public, because it helps in decision making. But not all information can be put on public forum as it may cause things to go haywire. Just facts - common sense approach to fundamentals can help in a much better way.
