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BRI Sabot slugs in ALIEN NATION-armor piercing?
offeror
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While I'm on a movie kick this morning, I'll bring up another one I may have mentioned before but it's been a while.
At the beginning of the movie ALIEN NATION (a pretty cool flic for guns), three guys rob a store and one of them uses a shotgun to shoot a row of rounds through a car and kill the cop using it for cover. Afterward, a cop's dialog says they were shooting BRI Sabots, a particularly nasty slug which supposedly has a unique velocity/armor-piercing quality to them. I immediately ran out and bought some. (Okay, I know, I know, I took some Hollywood bait, but still they were pretty knowledgable in the movie about guns, the .454 Casull being another example.)
Question: Since these slugs are unique in that they are a slightly smaller sabot than, say, a Brenneke, encased in plastic and sent out at a fairly high muzzle velocity, how unique are they? Are they meant for cylinder bores or rifled slug barrels. Would they really make a better barrier-piercing choice for defense than most other slugs? Are they made by BRI any more, or is someone else producing this design?
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Edited by - offeror on 08/25/2002 13:03:38
At the beginning of the movie ALIEN NATION (a pretty cool flic for guns), three guys rob a store and one of them uses a shotgun to shoot a row of rounds through a car and kill the cop using it for cover. Afterward, a cop's dialog says they were shooting BRI Sabots, a particularly nasty slug which supposedly has a unique velocity/armor-piercing quality to them. I immediately ran out and bought some. (Okay, I know, I know, I took some Hollywood bait, but still they were pretty knowledgable in the movie about guns, the .454 Casull being another example.)
Question: Since these slugs are unique in that they are a slightly smaller sabot than, say, a Brenneke, encased in plastic and sent out at a fairly high muzzle velocity, how unique are they? Are they meant for cylinder bores or rifled slug barrels. Would they really make a better barrier-piercing choice for defense than most other slugs? Are they made by BRI any more, or is someone else producing this design?
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
Edited by - offeror on 08/25/2002 13:03:38
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I wasn't talking about body armor but it is an interesting point. As for shooting clear through cars, well, maybe a Yugo...
I'll have to look for those new tungsten slugs at the next gun show, just for fun.
- Life NRA Member
"If cowardly & dishonorable men shoot unarmed men with army guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary...and not by general deprivation of constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878