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December 10, 2000, 06:29 PM | #1 |
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Seems like a common design in tank guns...
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December 10, 2000, 07:38 PM | #2 |
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Maybe non-bolt action shotguns can't handle the chamber pressure to really push one to it's full potential (120mm APFSDS MV is 5200+ fps, and a tank has one he11 of a breech), but also the really long, sharp design to help get the velocity wouldn't expand in most game, and many states ban non-expanding ammunition in large-game hunting. If they could get past the chamber pressure (if it even is a problem) an APFSDS 12ga round would be great for defeating body armor at extended range, and should be extremely accurate (I would guess 2 MOA out to 300 yds should be easy). It could make the M16/AR15 obsolete as a LE or homestead defense firearm. Come to think of it, an all-brass shell with a consummable top instead of a crimp would help contain the pressure. Then again, probably nobody would develop and market a new round made specifically to defeat body armor (see what happened to the Black Talon just because it had a black tip). Still, you can get stuff like flechette, bolo (the two balls connected by wire), and even payload slugs you can fill with powder and fuse with a shotshell primer, so I don't see why someone hasn't made one yet, even just for the novelty of it.
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December 11, 2000, 06:05 AM | #3 |
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Payload slugs
"and even payload slugs you can fill with powder and fuse with a shotshell primer"
If I put a shotshell primer in the drilled-out nose of a slug, is there any chance of the primer detonating under the acceleration of the slug when in the barrel? point308 |
December 11, 2000, 10:37 AM | #4 |
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payload slugs
I doubt it, but I wouldn't want to drop one on the floor. I look at that kind of stuff like mercury or phosphorous filled hollowpoints: great for someone else to test in their gun far away from me.
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December 11, 2000, 11:26 AM | #5 |
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The 120mm finstabalized projectile used in the US/German 120mm tank guns are exremely accurate, but they are held to close tolerances and using the same technology in shotgun shells would result in some very expensive ammunition.
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December 11, 2000, 12:55 PM | #6 |
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Their is a fin-stabilized shotgun load for hunting. It has a lead penetrator and the tail is plastic. I can't remember what it is called.
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December 11, 2000, 02:50 PM | #7 |
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Go to http://www.sauvestre.com
The Sauvestre slug was designed by the same guy who developed the M1 Abrams fin stabilized saboted projectile. Tried the 12 gauge 2 3/4" and 3" slugs. Accuracy not anywhere nearly as good as a standard rifled Foster slug when fired from 2 different Vang Comp'd barrels (one ported barrel, one barrel without ports). Recoil of both loads was considerably more punishing than standard Foster slugs. |
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