The invention relates to the technical field of smelting stokehold equipment, and provides a hot metal based hydraulic clay gun and an use method. The hydraulic clay gun comprises a controller, a first hydraulic cylinder, a second hydraulic cylinder, a first turning valve, a second turning valve, a first flow rate sensor, a second flow rat sensor, a first valve, a second valve, a flow-in pipe, a reflowing pipe, a storing box filled with hot metal, a heater arranged on the storing box, a driving pump arranged on the flow-in pipe, a gun transferring mechanism which is connected to a piston rod of the first hydraulic cylinder, and a clay injecting mechanism which is connected to a piston rod of the second hydraulic cylinder. According to the hot metal based hydraulic clay gun and the use method, the use method is carried out; the hot metal is used as a pressure transferring medium, so that the viscosity of the pressure transferring medium under high temperature basically remains, and as aresult, the safety of the hydraulic clay gun is greatly improved, and the leakage is avoided; the times of replacing the pressure transferring medium is greatly decreased; and the cost is saved.