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Ammunition system comprising slug holding sabot and slug type shot shell

  • US 5,339,743 A
  • Filed: 07/12/1993
  • Issued: 08/23/1994
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/12/1993
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A shot shell ammunition system including:

  • (a) a cylindrical sabot having a base portion with upwardly extending spaced flexible segments forming a cylindrical cavity, with the segments locking projections extending inwardly toward the cavity and being undercut in the base portion; and

    (b) a slug located within the cylindrical cavity of the sabot having a main cylindrical body portion terminating in an annular locking ledge having a surface substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the cylindrical body portion, the locking ledge being substantially the same distance from the base of the cylindrical body portion as the locking projections are from the interior base of the sabot to the locking projections, each locking projection having a surface substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the sabot to mate with the locking ledge, the locking projections on the sabot segments, when the slug is inserted into the sabot cavity, passing over the slug locking ledge to axially retain the slug in the sabot, the slug having a hollow point segmented nose portion.

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