Worth a few shots

[MountainDevil54]

I ran out of Wads for shooting the REALs and so i figured what the heck.... I took some Low drag sabots that dont shoot worth a darn and cut the pedals off and used the base as a wad for the REAL's. We'll see how that works out tomorrow at the 100 yard range.

Worth a few shots to see how it does, don't you think?

[pluckit]

Interesting idea, good luck. Or you could shoot them out of a .54 cal. rifle with a .54/.50 sabot.

[Muley Hunter]

You made a Powerbelt.

[MountainDevil54]

nuh uh Colorado! These 250gr " actually they drop around 248.6 - 249.8 grains" and only lost 3 grains of weight when recovered LOL.

[MountainDevil54]

welp, time to go out and try it! Maybe next time i will use a tighter fitting sabot base and see if it does better.

[MountainDevil54]

Well that didn't work out! First 2 shots impacted in the dirt about a foot left of the target. Loaded my final shot without the sabot wad and boom, right under there where it should have been.

[MountainDevil54]

woohooo!!! The Optima did great with 70gr APP 3f, plastic wad and the 250 REAL! The crud ring however was horrible. I started off at 60 yards and got my sights adjusted and had my final 2 shots over lapping! Went back to 100 yards and took more more shot and was dead center but 4" low. I plan on trying this a lot more but with BH209 and Pyrodex RS later down the road.