Went to the range yesterday (Saturday) to sight in my Omega for IL's firearm opener next weekend. I finally ran out of my 300 grain bonded SWs with the black sabots and broke out the 300 grain SWs with the E-Z Glide sabots. They picked up where the others left off as far as accuracy goes. I alternatedbetween (2) .50 Pyrodex pellets and 100 grains loose RS and they are basically interchangeable as far as hunting accuracy goes out to 100 yards. I pulled a page out of saxman's book and used an old camera tripod and the v from my monopod. This worked pretty well. I just sat on a dove stool and fired away. Not quite as stable as my Caldwellrest so the groups were not as good but plenty good for hunting. I recovered three of my yellow E-Z glide sabots and found that one of the two petals was missing on all of them. Is this normal? I know the black sabots just peel back but all petals stay attached. I am not too concerned with it because the accuracy was fine. Also, I mixed in some 210 grain .429 Gold Dots with the green crush rib sabots and they have definite potential for small game someday. Can't wait until next weekend!
I've found some sabots tend to shed their petals (PR Dead Centers for me) and some don't (Harvestor sabots). I haven't seen it be a problem though- as long as your accuracy is good, I wouldn't worry about it. I've gotten good accuracy with both types.
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