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hello once again this is jeff of TAOFLEDERMAUS
today we have something I've
been waiting to shoot forever
Balle Fleche Sauvestre
this looks like it came from Bioshock
they were made in France
Who knew France MADE shotgun slugs
and why to they get 6 shells and
we only get five - what's up with that
as you can see this are a fin- stabilized
discarding sabot shotgun round
Over last year I've emailed both the company
that makes these and distributor in the
united states that sells these asking them
for a few samples so I could demonstrate
these for you--- and they flat-out ignored me
the outrage!
finally a viewer from France a guy named
David generously offered to send these
to me
Without David's generosity we
wouldn't have been able to make this video
i definitely thank him - he has a youtube
channel called up sweet 07
At first glance the Sauvestre may appear to
look like some kind of a plumbing
fixture - the nose of the Sauvestre is
made out of lead the rest of it is made
out of nylon or some kind
of high-strength plastic this is
comprised of three main components the
to sabot pieces then the main projectile
which is actually made out of two
different materials both nylon and lead
and it's really quite a retro futuristic design
When we look at normal shotgun
slug it just has a gas piston which
pushes it down the barrel-- very simple
IF you tried to do the same thing with
the Sauvestre, the slug would be crushed under
its own weight from the tremendous
g-shock from being shot
so what they did was designed the sabot
to be the gas seal also
The lugs distribute the force evenly down
the entire length of the dart, so when
you shoot it essentially the dart is
being pulled down the barrel rather
being pushed from behind
iThis is less like a normal factory shotgun
slug and more like a military sabot
round used in tanks like the Abrams
ok let's go out and see how these
function okay I'm ready
alright let's look different thing
wow I saw it splash out on the water out
there
ok we see that the best traveling along
around 1,400 feet per second
very very flat trajectory high-speed
high penetration just blasted right
through all that ballistic gel a
ballistic gel is not an exact
representation of flesh like that
normally this slug when it hits a wild
boar whatever it will mushroom out smash
up into form quite a bit
that's pretty accurate impressive
performance out of a smoothbore shotgun
which is are designed to be shot from so
that's pretty much where we're aiming
that's a that's a very accurate around
in and out and clean hole this guy a new
one ever need me to do with manoj our
governments here they all folded over on
each other here did it
what if it went through that last single
block there it looks like a new cavity
their big ol giant cavity
okay ready
each gummy bears about three inches
thick by spacing them out we can see if
the projectile will maintain its
trajectory straight through and it
definitely did film from the site at
21,000 frames per second we can see that
the sub s kind of resembles a bullet
going through gel but unlike a bullet
which can often saw and change direction
once it begins traveling through flesh
the sub s continue traveling straight
through
therefore if you're aiming for a vital
you have a better chance of hitting the
vital the lead plate is almost 20 pounds
and one and 18 inches thick and just
like ballistic gel it's just a
comparative medium we could shoot
different projectiles at it and see what
kind of cavities it leaves behind here
again we see the sub s traveling along
has a little bit of a waggle to it which
is pretty common with been stabilized
projectiles now the the manufacturer
does say these can be shot through a
rifled barrel the Abrams tank has a
smoothbore for a reason they're able to
get accuracy out of it without spin
stabilization so it's pretty unlikely to
get better accuracy from a rifle barrel
with these ok 5-gallon jug of water we
already got that on camera I think it
did think now David couldn't send live
ammunition to me through the mail so i
had to load these myself using
non-existent load data so because i
didn't use the right powder or the right
amount of powder or I had a maybe a
little air void in the
the base of the shell we didn't get a
proper combustion of the powder so the
solve s left the girl probably about 500
feet per second if that but we can
really see how the sabo separate from
the rear not from the front which is
kind of interesting so traveling at
subsonic speed it was still very stable
and still have enough energy to pierce
that water jug and the leno's snapped
off and continued on through that 12
inches of water hopefully in the near
future we'll have more us distributors
of these slugs companies that i can that
are reliable and I can actually
recommend you but currently they're
pretty hard to get and once again thank
you David or is it dahveed
I don't know tell me if I'm wrong but we
could have done this without you
he also sent us a bunch of other slugs
made in France that we're going to be
testing out as well as some other
European slugs like the brenneke and
some others i have to do some research
on and we also have another batch of
unique shotgun slugs from Russia sent to
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anyway I hope you enjoyed this video
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