Patched sabots?

[boker]

I have some 50 caliber sabots with 45 caliber bullets someone gave me, tonight as I was cleaning my T/C 45 Cherokee, out of curiosity I pulled one of the hornady xtp mag 45 caliber bullets out of its sabot. It flopped down the T/C 45 caliber barrel loosely.

I took a round ball ticking patch from my tool box and it tightened the bullet up nicely in bore.

just curious if anyone had ever tried shoot such a contraption and what your results were.

 

[Gtrubicon]

Interesting

 

[longcruise]

Never with jacketed but I did try a 50 maxi in a very thin cotton patch. It increased the recoil substantially!! Enough so that I didn't want to explore further.

 

[necchi]

just curious if anyone had ever tried shoot such a contraption and what your results were.

Sure, about 200yrs ago, by all of the military across the globe, with experiments funded by their government.
They found out that something like that had to be pushed harder and spin faster than anything available.
So they made a different kind of gun, with a different kind of powder,, some even used a kind of wrap around the projectile,,
Others just found harder steel and forced the long bullet into it, without a wrapping,,
Long story short,, firearm developmental history can be your friend

 

[hanshi]

I think the curious shooters heard you loud and clear; I know I did, oh my! Now I'm gonna have to try it dang you.

 

[ohio ramrod]

I would not recomend shooting heavy slugs in a Cherokee. They are a light rifle not intended for heavy loads.

 

[ord sgt]

I have done .40 calibre copper jacket bullets with Demin for a patch in my .45 calibre T/C. Tight fit but poor accuracy at 50 yards.

 

[new2bp]

Paging @Ninering62 to the white courtesy phone please....

 

[Ninering62]

Paging @Ninering62 to the white courtesy phone please....

I don't know what to say here except that for me personally, thats nuthin I'd ever mess with, not the way I'd choose to do things.

 

[Loyalist Dave]

Forum Rules
9: We do not discuss copper and/or jacketed, plastic/polymer tipped bullets, sabots, power belts, or other 'plastic-wrapped' bullets. Smoothbores using plastic wads and steel shot are an exception to this rule.

IF one wants to discuss a modern molded lead alloy bullet that is paper or linen patched, that's about as far as the rule may be stretched.

LD