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From: Lloyd Vance ljvance@*******.edu
Subject: Shotgun slugs [was: How does an illegal SIN work?]
Date: Wed, 04 Aug 1999 14:09:52
At 10:31 AM 8/4/99 -0400, IronRaven wrote:
>At 13.52 08-03-99, you wrote:
>>Maybe a more specific answer would be more helpful. So you are saying that
>>the current trend of rifling the shotgun slugs will not continue, nor will
>>a 'new' practice of rifling shotgun barrels specifically to be fired with
>>slugs? Or what?
>
> Both will continue. A lot of folks like full-gauge slugs, and most of
>them go with a rifled one. A lot of folks like saboted slugs, and use a
>rifled barrel to get the most out of them. (BTW, rifling shotgun barrels
>is by no means "new", it been around at least ten years.)

I know, but the it is new compared to the rest of the gun world, which has
been around for over 100 years. The Auto-5 was in production for 90 years
alone. :)

Other than that, thanks for the input. It is about what I thought, I just
wanted to get other opinions on it.

-The Hamm
"When you absolutely positively have to kill every mother f***er in the
room, accept no substitute."
-Samuel L. Jackson in Jackie Brown

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