Testing Hornady 240gr and Scorpion 260gr poly tip black powder sabot rounds in a Dragon Claw .50 airgun. These are .45 caliber bullets that use plastic sabots to fit in a .50 bore barrel. HD and High Speed photos/video.
There are multiple reasons this would be desirable, but for me it is the ability to use (admittedly showy) jacketed rounds in this airgun without putting the barrel in danger since it was designed for lead projectile use.
This gun doesn't shoot hard enough (from my test shots shown here) to really make use of any expansion these rounds can offer because of its relatively low power, the 2/3 I recovered were completely intact and barely showed signs of use at all.
On the high speed, the sabot gives a great "space shuttle" type seperation effect which looks quite nice. A downside is the cost of these projectiles. The Scorpions pass $1/per.
Eventually I want to get something set up to allow it to fire smaller, lighter bullets and see what kind of velocity/ballistics this unmodified Dragon Claw can get with something like a standard .308.
I would like to do ballistic tests to compare the lead rounds and these jacketed ones, but do not expect it soon. This was an on-the-spot video, just testing to see how (if) these shot.
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