sabot slugs

[dirtythirty]

Some of the slugs I was looking at say for rifled barrels, now I'm just wondering if would they still be able to shoot out of a smooth bore barrel? Maybe just not as accurate as the rifled barrels or something like that.
thnx

 

[TangoKilo]

They will still go bang...
Though at $3-5 per round for the saboted rounds, im thinking some rifled slugs might be a better option.

 

[muscles1000]

I have a limited understanding of the topic but i was told that because a smooth bore will not impart a spin on the projectile, a sabot slug is inaccurate to the extent that it is effectively useless.

Someone mentioned to me that the plastic sabot will leave garbage in your barrel, but i am not sure that is relevant or even a problem really.

Short story, use a rifled slug.... the crappy tire near me sells 2 3/4" 1oz hollowpoint rifled slugs in boxes of 15 for 14 bucksish. (they don't look as cool as the sabot slugs but as TangoKilo pointed out they are ALOT cheaper)

 

[Justins1877]

Here you are, all the information you need.
http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/bot46.htm

 

[pharaoh2]

Do not put a sabot slug through any choke other then a rifled choke.

 

[dutchhunter]

a sabt slug will not harm any barrell .however thy are ment for a gun with a rifle barrell or rifled choke so you shoot rifled slugs from smooth barrels .and sabotts from a rifled barrell .keep it simple . DUTCH

 

[pharaoh2]

A sabot through a constricting choke can harm you barrel. Same with steel sht and is the reason they print right on the box of every pack of slugs use only with a rifled barrel.

 

[Boomer]

I am going to have to get a box or two of sabot slugs to try in my open choke smooth bore, although I would fully expect the accuracy to be dismal. The 120 mm smooth bore guns mounted on several modern battle tanks are extremely accurate, well under MOA, and although there is little relationship between a 12 gauge sabot slug and the 120 mm fin stabilized discarding sabot kinetic energy round, it would still be interesting to test. According to Ackley, as much as 30% of the energy from a rifle cartridge is lost to induce spin to the bullet. Artillery rounds have always been at the cutting edge of technology and only recently have we seen this extend to small arms ammo in the design of bullets with shorter bearing surfaces and banded bullets resulting in higher possible velocities. Cutting edge stuff in 1914. It would be interesting to chronograph and compare the velocity of these sabot shotgun slugs from both a smooth and rifled bore gun.

 

[Winchested]

Good, go waste $15-20 on 5 shells.

It has already been done and tried, Sabot slugs tumble out of a smooth bore, foster slugs even tumble through smooth bores if the wrong choke is used.

why waste the firggen money?

 

[Boomer]

Good, go waste $15-20 on 5 shells.

It has already been done and tried, Sabot slugs tumble out of a smooth bore, foster slugs even tumble through smooth bores if the wrong choke is used.

why waste the firggen money?

Because its my money and I want to see the change in velocity between shooting those things through a rifled barrel and a smooth bore, and I have access to both. As I said its not an accuracy question I'm attempting to answer.

 

[dirtythirty]

Thanks, very well understood. I will be the cheapie slugs until I get a rifled barrel/choke for the gun.