Weird shotgun slug design...prohib?

very interesting it would be neat if someone could import them i oulw like to try them next deer season
 
Comparing tank armour to deer hide is probably a bit of a stretch, but strictly speaking about APDS tank rounds, I seem to recall that there is a round that has a free rotating band on it, so that it can be fired in a rifled barrel, and the penetrator does not get spun, due to the outer band rotating freely.

Neat looking shotgun round, I'd like one for the collection
 
i would be in for 50-100 of these once they are in country, any CGN dealers feel like doing the reasearch/ground work on these neat little things?
 
Look at the edge of the fin; it's not shaped symmetrically, but more like an airplane wing. THAT will impart spin.
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With that small a surface i doubt it'd impart significant spin in a short distance. There wouldn't be time. I think it's more like a dart.

We should contact the manufacturer again and see if he'll sell just the Sabot. Then we could reload it ourselves. Not much paperwork to just bring in bullets like that i'd think.
 
There are many ways to stabilize a long projectile; among them two are the most practical: gyroscopic forces imparted by a rifling or some other means and the simple arrow concept which DOES NOT NEED spinning to stabilize.
This concept works best with extra long objects. this is how new armor defeating rounds work.
A long, fletched heavy rod made of a very dense and hard metal such as tungsten is placed in a sabot which PULLS it along upon firing.
Once free from the bore, the front part of the sabot encounters air resistance and its specially shaped front lips initiate separation at the front; the remaining gases behind the sabot do the same at the rear and complete the jettisoning and the finned rod is free to travel at supersonic speeds towards its target.

That finned slug concept works exactly the same.
PP.
 
When these loads were being imported, they were about the most expensive slug loads on the market. May well have been among the best though. Imported now, I expect they would be over $2 each.
It is interesting - the tailfin assembly is right down in the powder, because the projectile is so long.
Given the length of the slug and tail unit, a rather fast rifling twist would be needed to insure stabilization, if the slug were to be spin stabilized. The slug might rotate in flight, but I doubt that it contributes much to stablilzation.
 
It's a late responce, but I found this at the American Slug Shooters Association:
The following is a quote,

I have had the "pleasure" of shooting many boxes of this slug. I once worked for a company that imported and marketed the Sauvestre slug here in the USA.

While the flat trajectory of the slug made it attractive, I have tested other brands of slug that were more consistently accurate. The idea was that the gas from the barrel would push the sabots off from the rear, thereby affecting the flight of the slug less than sabots that discarded from the front. In practice, there were fliers in every group I shot, and I suspect that this happened when one sabot released before the other. The only evidence I had of this was where the sabots ended up down range, but that was never very scientific. The slugs penetrated like nothing else I've ever fired from a shotgun. I demo'd the slugs on vehicles and steel plates several times for law enforcement and military audiences with impressive results. Recoil with the 3" slug was formidable, and not for the faint-hearted or soft-shouldered!

In my opinion, there are other slugs that work better for a lot less money.
 
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