Thread: Rifled barrels
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Old November 29, 2018, 07:42 AM   #5
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A shotgun barrel is much thinner and operates at much lower pressures. A sabot round allows you to use a much lighter actual projectile and achieve higher velocities, as well as achieving greater accuracy from the rifled barrel. If you loaded a solid lead or jacketed slug sized to work with the rifling, it would work okay, but would have a trajectory like a rainbow.
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