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sabots - cheap, quick and easy method

Posted: Thu Dec 15, 2011 11:22 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
A little picture tutorial on how to make lightweight yet strong sabots to fire subcalbre projectiles, enjoy:

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:15 am
by daniel0663
Nice tutorial JSR, will have to try this with 10mm lead ....

Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2011 12:42 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
The problem with thin foil is that it does get a bit tiresome for larger calibres. You can substitute the foil for paper or thin carboard and make it the same way, then throw in a ball of foil before putting the sabot to hammer it in, and make a composite round.

Just to illustrate the effectiveness of this, here's a shot from my mini hybrid at 9x with a lead pellet:

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Here's a shot with a 4.5mm BB in a sabot built as described above, fired from exactly the same setup at the same target:

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You can see small flecks of foil from the sabot around the entry hole.

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 5:42 pm
by sagthegreat
I know that i should not bring up old topics, but this seems really important




I found these shrader valve caps, and the fly straight when shot out of my cannon using your sabots, theses caps are a great way to make missiles without have a machine shop

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 6:17 pm
by MrCrowley
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote:Just to illustrate the effectiveness of this, here's a shot from my mini hybrid at 9x with a lead pellet:

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Here's a shot with a 4.5mm BB in a sabot built as described above, fired from exactly the same setup at the same target:
So one shot was with a lead air rifle pellet and the other with a copper/steel 4.5mm BB? Just want to clear that up because if that's the case, surely it isn't a fair test?

Posted: Thu Jul 26, 2012 11:57 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
MrCrowley wrote:So one shot was with a lead air rifle pellet and the other with a copper/steel 4.5mm BB? Just want to clear that up because if that's the case, surely it isn't a fair test?
Fair point, the hardness of the BB does give it an advantage beyond what the sabot offers. Unfortunately the mini hybrid used for this test is now defunct so I can't repeat the experiment with a lead ball, though I have every reason to believe this would also have penetrated just as well.

When fired from my micro hybrid against similat steel sheet, both the lead and steel 0.177" BBs gave similar results:

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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 1:38 am
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Something related, ignore the pyro bit but great flechette & sabot combo, papier-mâché FTW!

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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 2:21 am
by Heimo
jackssmirkingrevenge wrote: papier-mâché FTW!
haha

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Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 12:27 pm
by Brian the brain
Perhaps a simpler method of making a sabod would be to use a ....
SPUD?

:D

Posted: Tue Nov 06, 2012 4:17 pm
by jackssmirkingrevenge
Sabots that fly apart before leaving the muzzle aren't exactly ideal ;)