Projectile Stabilization

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Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:04 pm

McCoytheGreater wrote:That fiber tail is the wadding. The rifling is what spins the slug down the smooth bore of the shotgun.
I'm afraid I'll have to disagree with you there, as you can see from this fired slug the fibre tail remains attached on firing, unlike wadding would.

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As you can see from this lineup, all brenneke type slugs have a lightweight tail of some description to ensure they fly straight.

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hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:09 pm

Hmm...10-4. So design the spudgun slug like a shotgun slug. Rifle the slug, then epoxy some sort of thick fabric material to the backside of it.
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Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:14 pm

McCoytheGreater wrote:The rifling doesn't hurt, though.
Well it's not doing any harm, but for stable flight unless blessed with a rifled barrel spudders have to look elsewhere for stabilisation, such as the work carried out by Sureshot.
hectmarr wrote:You have to make many weapons, because this field is long and short life
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Tue Dec 15, 2009 3:15 pm

I've seen their work. Do they make 3" rounds?
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