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Well I dunno where this really fits, but... found this guy lying on the backstop the other day as I was looking for my cast bullets. I've seen plenty of perfect looking FMJ rounds on field firing ranges when they drop to earth without impacting anything, but finding an FTX in immaculate condition at 100 yards is a new one. Must have been from a muzzle loader, but still...

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Could it be from a 12 gauge possibly? This spring I found dozens of the plastic ballistic tip inserts on top of the sand after the snow melted. Neat what shows up.
 
twosmokinspades said:
Fired using a sabot. So no rifling. Could have also fallen out of someone's pocket.
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Bingo. Hard to see, but there's green streaks visible from the rifling on the sabot. You can see it directly below the flash spot. IE why I say it's from a muzzleloader.
 
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Markus said:
Could it be from a 12 gauge possibly? This spring I found dozens of the plastic ballistic tip inserts on top of the sand after the snow melted. Neat what shows up.
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.50 cal for sure. It's .452 with green sabot rifling marks, which is exactly what the hornady .50 x .452 sabots use.

The range out here has shotgun wads and sabots thick enough they look like snow themselves. If scrap plastic was worth anything I'd be rich. Only ever found a tip itself inside a water jug.

Found more than a few of my cast bullets in the berm that I'd hit with other bullets too... neat.

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cosmic said:
More likely the result of weak ignition in a muzzleloader. Bullet and sabot just p*ss out the end of the barrel. Ask me how I know...
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That was exactly what I figured, until I realized I was standing on the 100m berm with it.
 
A guy at the club had a new marlin that was a smooth bore. He couldnt figure out why he couldnt hit anything with it. I dug his bullet out of the baffle and noticed it didnt have rifling and we looked down the barrel. No rifling there either
 
cosmic said:
Last time it happened to me, I saw the bullet hit the ground at the 50 y line, and bounce to the 100 y line. I found the sabot at the 25 y line.
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Probably the most likely explanation. It was behind a plywood target screen, but it certainly could have bounced under or over it.
 
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