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Gunner wrote:

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Shotgun shells that fire shot..use shot cups and occasionally wads.

I'll go with that.

Shotgun shells that fire a solid projectile, a finned slug or dart
acuatlly..use a sabot to hold the projectile..and they fall away once
it clears the barrel.

puts on official pedant hat to relieve some locally-ocurring boredom
Duzzat count for my 12 gauge slug-chucker? That's a solid projectile,
right?

I can't help eyeing the disassembled Remington "Slugger" shell laying
nearby, which shows lots of signs of wadding, but nothing recognizable
to me as a sabot...

Going down the stack, it's got a rolled crimp holding down a slug with
an exposed nose, which is sitting on top of (not in or surrounded by,
just sitting on top of) some sort of rubber-like plastic ring, similar
to a garden hose washer, but smaller and stiffer, which in turn sits on
top of (again, on, not in) a thick - I eyeball it at about half an inch
- fiber plug, which is above a half inch or so tall plastic "pillar"
with an integral bore-diameter base that sits on top of another thick
(this one only about 3/8 inch, I'd say) fiber plug, which sits on top of
a thin piece of a cardboard-like substance that keeps the powder tamped
down against the primer.

Other than the shell casing itself, nothing is wrapped around any of the
stack in such a way that it would prevent direct, intimate contact of
any portion of the OD of the stack with the ID of the barrel.

Where's the sabot??? Did I blink and miss it?

takes off pedant hat and hangs it back on the virtual rack

Gotta tip the hat your way for the sabot/wadding distinction, though - I
wasn't aware that the punkin-chunkers had taken up sabots. Last time I
paid attention, they were wadding them heavily, but hadn't progressed to
the more advanced sabot concept.

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