![]() You’ve undoubtedly heard slugs compared to badminton shuttlecocks or the “rock in a sock” analogy. While sabots were a breakthrough in accuracy and expanded effective range, they still relied on the same nose-heavy design as original slugs for accuracy. ![]() 50-caliber pellet-like projectile in a two-piece plastic sleeve of bore diameter to grip the rifling (an idea used in artillery for nearly a century), slug shooting expanded its horizons significantly. From that breakthrough until the early 1980s, there was very little change in shotgun slugs-until the advent of rifled barrels for shotguns and sabot slugs changed everything. Winchester-Western ballistician Karl Foster redesigned the old pumpkin-ball slug into what is essentially a 20th century. Shotgun hunters are currently blessed with some of the best projectiles-sabot slugs-they’ve ever had to shoot, but improvements in these rounds have been slow in coming.
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