DH> DH>>On page 39 in the July issue of Guns & Weapons for Law
DH> Enforcement they
DH> DH>>have an article on a new slug for smoothbore that has pinpoint
DH> accuracy.
DH> DH>>It sort of looks like a sabot slug, but with polymer tail fins to
DH> DH>>stabilize its flight. The blast of the gases from the barrel
DH> blow off
DH> DH>>the plastic sabot shell in a forward direction, as opposed to the
DH> DH>>standard sabot needing air pressure from the front to peel off
DH> the
DH> DH>>sabot.
DH> DH>>They speak of a 7-shot grouping that went into 10 inches at 175
DH> yards.
Sounds like a homemade "slug" load described in American Rifleman, made
by drilling a hole in a lead sphere and pinning several strands of nylon
fishing line in it with a piece of dowel.
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