Monolit 32

The Monolit 32 slug, thanks to its high accuracy and special capability of retaining trajectory when hitting obstacles, is greatly favored in driven hunt and successfully used in big game hunting. During the projectile flight, the rear part of the slug together with the lateral surface of the slug body stabilizes it precisely with the nose forward. Due to its hard material, balancing and stabilizing surfaces, the slug maintains its initial flight path, even after hitting various obstacles such as tree branches, bushes and dense grass. Unlike the Monolit 28, this slug retains its balancing even when hitting large obstacles such as trees with a 5-10 cm diameter. The slug has a reinforced rear part, and even loosing its polymer wad affects neither weight balance nor stabilizing surfaces. As a result, after exiting the obstacle the slug continues to stabilize itself and fly along the initial path with its nose forward. Unlike lead slugs which loose their regular shape and initial trajectory after hitting obstacles, a Monolit 32 slug, because of its hard material and self-stabilizing shape, maintains its flight path, or in some cases deviates minimally. The design and stability of the slug ensures high resistance to ricocheting in densely overgrown areas.

Driven hunting is appropriate for steel ammunition use. Animals can show up at once without warning. Their running speed and direction often is unpredictable, and shots may not always be performed in clear areas. Sometimes, by loosing just a few seconds to shoot in a clear area, a hunter may also loose the chance to bag the animal, since it has managed to move behind bush cover. In such situations, Monolit 32 slug ammunition provides superior advantages. Unlike using a rifle, when shooting an animal on the move with a Monolit 32 slug, there is no need to look for a clean “window” in the bushes. A Monolit 32 slug pierces serious obstacles without changing its initial flight path and stops the animal effectively.

Video material about Monolit 32 testing on firing through bushes.

A moose running towards the hunters flashed among the trees only for a short moment. A shot from a 40 m distance stopped animal on the spot. The Monolit 32 slug transferred all its kinetic energy into the body and stopped under the skin on the opposite side.

Monolit 32 slugs have found their use in a quite extraordinary economic sector – non-conventional farming. Outdoor cattle farming has become quite popular. When large bulls and cows born outdoors and after grazing in vast areas all year long have reached proper age and dimensions, a need emerges to extract them from this environment. A three or four year old bull of the Scottish Highlander breed weighs approx. 1000 kg. Extracting such half-savage animals from their environment is rather problematic – it is impossible to capture them.
Over the years, farmers have found the best solution, make awell-aimed shot from a 35-50 m distance at the animal’s head between the horns. Monolit 32 slugs loaded in 12/70 gauge shotshells from a 20 m distance punch through steel plate of 6 mm thickness. Such proven slugs easily penetrate an animal’s forehead bone, and their powerful impact kills an animal at once. The abruptness of this effect is confirmed by meat product biochemical analysis. Initially, rifles were used for this purpose, but several cases when animals were wounded by bullets rebounding from the thick forehead bone speak in favor of using Monolit series slugs. Even if the aim was not perfect, the large frontal slug surface area knocked down the animal effectively. The Monolit series slugs have not yet been tested in big African game hunting, but the experience obtained in large cattle farming suggests that these slugs would have a high stopping effect against African buffalo.