Thanks for the info guys. Like you said, will just need to shoot and find out. Having to pound the ram rod down or really struggle to load take a lot of the fun out of it. Never thought about loosing velocity withto loose of a sabot but that makes since.

You did send me 3 .458 sabots and bullets. I loaded them but did not shoot them. They were tight but notrange rod breaking tight.

They are on the list to shoot this weekend. Along with Yard work. We have 5 acres with 3 horses so it entailsa lot of different stuff.