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Shooting & Reloading - Mausers, Big Bores and others >> Muzzleloaders & Blackpowder

doulos
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Re: Sabots+BP?
01/06/09 10:17 AM

While I now prefer roundball shooting I have shot literally thousands of rounds of saboted bullets out of at east 5 different fast twist inlines sitting on top of 90-110 grains of black powder. Ive killed about 25 whitetails with 300 grain XTPs in either Hornady or MMP sabots most of the time with black powder as the propellant. I never found the substitutes as quite as accurate. In fact Knight Rifles used to recommend real black powder or Pyrodex Select for best accuracy.
This changed a little with hotter ignitions such as 209 primers. The hotter ignitions helped the substitutes I felt in the accuracy department.

Obviously you have to clean between shots when using sabots and black powder. The best way is to just dampen a patch on your tongue, run it with short strokes down the bore , then turn it over and run it again.

When shooting sabots you must let the barrel cool between shots for best accuracy. Nothing will destroy a group faster than pushing a plastic sabot down a smoking hot barrel.

Even though I don't hunt with those rifles anymore dont be afraid to use the real black out of em. It works well.

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Sabots+BP?	beleg2	30/05/09 04:41 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	doulos	01/06/09 10:17 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	beleg2	01/06/09 10:44 PM
Re: Sabots+BP?	Birdhunter50	02/06/09 11:21 PM
Re: Sabots+BP?	DarylS	03/06/09 01:47 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	beleg2	07/06/09 06:29 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	DarylS	07/06/09 11:59 PM
Re: Sabots+BP?	beleg2	08/06/09 06:58 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	DarylS	08/06/09 11:03 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	Plains99	02/06/09 12:08 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	DarylS	02/06/09 01:36 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	beleg2	02/06/09 11:10 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	DarylS	02/06/09 09:17 PM
Re: Sabots+BP?	beleg2	02/06/09 09:29 PM
Re: Sabots+BP?	tinker	30/05/09 09:53 AM
Re: Sabots+BP?	DarylS	31/05/09 12:02 AM

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