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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tratyn Runewind" data-source="post: 355624" data-attributes="member: 685">Hello!1) Most criminals aren't exactly Professor Moriarty, and 2) Sabot small-arms ammo is rare and exotic enough that purchases of it can be traced fairly easily compared to purchases of more common sorts of ammunition.Are they really?  The only commercially-available sabot ammo I ever heard of was Remington's "Accelerator" rounds, and as far as I remember, they were only available in .30-'06 and maybe .308 Win (AKA 7.62 NATO).  I've seen plastic sabots offered for sale to handloaders, but only in .30-caliber versions that hold .22-caliber bullets, just like the "Accelerators".  And sabot rounds are among the many specialty loads available for 12-gauge shotguns, though these are often restricted in their sales to law-enforcement users only.I've seen a little data that seems to indicate that rifling will leave some marks on small-arms sabots.  But how useful those marks would be is open to question, since a plastic sabot would seem to be much more susceptible to all sorts of other random scratches, melting, and other things that might not mark up the metal jacket of a bullet.Yes, similar (not identical) energy, higher velocity, lower projectile mass.  Typical numbers are around 2900 fps at the muzzle for a standard .30-'06 with a 150-180 grain slug, and about 4100 fps for an "Accelerator" with a slug about 1/3 the mass (55 grains).  Energy at the muzzle is actually a fair bit lower because of the way air resistance scales with velocity (projectile diameter is not lower at this point, because the sabot is still on all through the barrel).  Incidentally, this NOT "about the same" as a .223, which typically pushes a 55-grain slug out at about 3200 to 3300 fps.  It's about 25% faster, which is to be expected given the larger powder charge behind the bullet.  The real benefit of the bullet, for most users, is the accuracy - the high speed makes for a nice flat trajectory.Or if you're talking about pistols, you could just get a Hecker and Koch HK4, which came with a kit with several different barrels and magazines that actually let you switch the weapon's caliber - .22 LR, .25 ACP, .32 ACP, and .380 ACP, if I remember correctly...  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As Zenon pointed out, if forensics are really the concern, a good old 12-gauge shotgun would seem to be a simpler, cheaper, and less noticable solution than exotic ammo.  Hope this helps!</blockquote>

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