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Old 11-01-2007, 10:27 PM   #1
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Default What is Your Tightest Fitting Sabot Round??

Specifically for a CVA Hunterbolt, but whatever you have experienced for a 50cal muzzy?? The kind you had to almost hammer in
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Old 11-01-2007, 10:37 PM   #2
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Tightest I've ever used was the 245 Barnes Spitfire in the yellow sabot. I don't use them any more or have any left, otherwise I'd send you a couple to try.
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Barnes and Hornady pre packaged bullets.
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Old 11-02-2007, 04:01 AM   #4
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Yeah, I had a whale of a time trying to hammer some Hornady's in yesterday during my final sighting in of the new scope.


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Old 11-02-2007, 05:14 AM   #5
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Tightest I've used was Barnes MZs. Usually Hornady pre-packaged combosload snug, but not too tight for me.
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Old 11-02-2007, 05:17 AM   #6
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The tightest sabot/bullet combination that i have everencountered are the 250 grain Shockwave/SST bullets in thered and the black stepped base sabots. They arehard to load in my CVAMagnum Hunter and very hard to load in my Encore.They also shoot like a dream from my Encore and i wantsome more of them.

TheSuper Glide sabots with the SST bullet do not shoot with a durn from my Encore. The Hornady Low Drag sabots with the same bullet shoot much better but not nearly as good as the original hard to load sabots.
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Old 11-02-2007, 06:07 AM   #7
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Their is a wide tolorance on muzzleloader barrels,their is also a number of different petal thichness of sabot; it is my experance that to loose or to tight will not shoot good. I like to take the breach plug out and try 6 or 7 differant sabots, I usually have the best luck with the tightest one that will load smooth. Lee
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Old 11-02-2007, 06:31 AM   #8
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Tightest I've used was Barnes MZs. Usually Hornady pre-packaged combosload snug, but not too tight for me.

I'll second that on the Barnes MZ's. My 250 and 300gr MZ Expanders were horrible until I switched to the Harvester Crushed Rib sabots
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Old 11-02-2007, 08:30 AM   #9
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Thanks everyone!

I got enough data now to complete some testing.
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