Originally posted by WWMaxGunz:
You can put the flag down Sergio, I'm American and a Veteran.

They made and used 45 ACP rounds with tetryl inside, and IL2 .50's do have small HE power
in the HE rounds, which is mostly IIRC incendiary.

There have been, maybe still are .22 LR with explosive bullets that were for border patrol
use shooting at small planes flying real low. I didn't know about those till Hinckley had
his day.

It does leave me to wonder what-all else is out there? Just this year I looked up the 30-cal
Remington Accelerators and yep they still sell those although I can't see how. So there's
sabot rounds in civilian packages, there should be for the .50 esp the sniper .50's. Only
thing is the whole sabot thing would work better if the barrels were smoothbore and tapered,
just IMHO. You know what rifling started out from way back in the starting days?

In theory finned sabot rounds should need no
rifling. But the rotation is the primary
mover in ejecting the sabot shell/wad after
the projectile leaves the barrel.
I know there are smooth bore sabot rounds
for tanks.

Any non fin stabilised projectile such as the
"Remington Acellerator" must have twist to
stabilize.

Those .22 LRs fired at Regan were called
"CCI devastators" if I remember correctly.
Those were usless for anything but shooting
bottles and did little but make a small crack
when hitting a hard object.

Some sources say Hinckley fired "Stingers".
Hinckley himself said that he used Stingers.

Sergio


Sergio