Sabot slugs

Round headed wood screw in end of rifled alug Hardened steel or tungsten carbide tool bit in wad. Rifle bullet encased in three piece sabot. ImproviBcd slug made from regular shotshell. Grapeshot load - lead balls and wire. 

Winchester s XP3 Sabot Shotgun Slug is 300-grains of power with polycarbonate tip and fully-encased sabot sleeve. 

The basis of this slug line is the copper Barnes Expander, and Federal uses it in its tipped or non-tipped Vital-Shok loads. It s designed for use in fully-rifled barrels only, says Federal, and provides accurate shooting to 200-yards. Federal offers both 12- (1-ounce and M-ounce 16.99 box of five) and 20-gauge (5/8-ounce) Vital-Shok copper sabots. 

Winchester introduced the 2 Vi-indi saboted, lead-free slug two years earlier than its roll-out of the 3-inch version. With the same BC (0.189), bullet dynamics at the muzzle for the two slugs is similar 2 %-inch = 2000 fps with 2665 ft lb of energy and 3-inch = 2100 fps with 2937 ft lb. 

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