ORIGINAL: Pglasgow

I've been thinking. And the more I think about the more I get and understand sabotloader's soapbox in his thread "Another powderbelt question"

There seems to be alot of people using powerbelts who want the flat trajectory they get by propelling lighter bullets at higher velocity. They seem to be using powerbelts instead of saboted projectiles because of difficulties loading sabots.

THIS IS A VERY BAD THING TO DO.

We have two choices in Muzzeloading as I see it.

1. Heavy, powerful, looping full bore conicals

2. Lighter, smaller thanbore, flatter shooting saboted projectiles.

There is NO place for light hollowpoint full-bore conicals in our sport. We are in a sport where the sport is harvesting game, not wounding it. Putting a gas check on the back of a underweighted full bore conical does not make the sabot obsolete, no matter what we've been told. It actually makes me angry when I think too much about it.

If anyone is having trouble with loading sabots and a fast flat shooting bullet is what you are after, do confer with sabotloader and exhaust all resources with sabots. If you fail, PLEASE, bite the bullet and learn to shoot heavy conicals.

Happy Hunting, Phil