From: gary%[ke 4 zv uucp] at [mathcs.emory.edu] (Gary Coffman)
Newsgroups: rec.guns
Subject: Re: Cyclones, and Tigers, and Bears! OH MY!
Date: 20 May 93 01:50:30 GMT

In article <[2--0--8] at [smoke.brl.mil]> [g--n] at [smoke.brl.mil] (Doug Gwyn) writes:
#
#If you really want to penetrate armor, the simplest thing to do
#is to build your bullet as a "subcaliber munition", i.e. a rod
#of hard, dense metal (if you don't have depleted uranium, try
#tungsten or even steel) with a light "sabot" base that (a) forms
#a pressure seal in the barrel and (b) drops away in flight.
#
#[-----------------
#|       [===\   [=\
#|       |=========|
#|powder |==****************>    barrel
#|       |=========|
#|       [===/   [=/
#[-----------------
#
#These don't feed well in autoloaders, although you could fix
#that with a bit of ingenuity.

Sure, just extend the sabot to have a round nose. Then it'll
feed like hardball. For homemade sabotted projectiles, the
terminal accuracy will probably suck rocks. Even the factory
Remington Accelerators don't win any prizes in the accuracy
department.

Gary

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