410 and slugs

[Nicodemus38]

What kind of pressure would you get if you used a 200 grain 38 cal slug in a 410 sabot designed for 3 or 5 pellets of .36 diam buckshot? What kind of velocity could you get out of an encore pistol or a taurus judge in 410?

 

[dmazur]

Here's a link to someone who has developed a special .410 barrel for the Encore, with rather "unique" shells that develop impressive ballistics, while staying within recommended pressures for the .410. Slugs are on the order of 370gr-400gr and are not the typical 80gr .410 slugs.

http://www.hoeningbigboresouth.com/Big%20410%20Ballistics.html

So, if you really want to get some interesting performance out of an Encore in .410, it can be done.

Taurus Judge? Not so much.

 

[rcmodel]

A single .36 caliber buckshot weighs 71.5 grains.
So three of them would weigh +/- 214 grains, and five of them would weigh +/- 357 grains.

It seems a 200 grain .38 bullet would get about the same velocity as a 3 pellet .410 load.

But it would be tumbling end over end, quickly run out of steam, and you couldn't hit much with it.

rc