HD Road King

Here are my thoughts just for the heck of it...

Usually if you purchase pre-packaged bullet/sabot combinations, they are goingto be somewhat more expensive than bulk.

If you want the specialty bullets, like SST's or Shockwaves and such you will need to purchase pre-packaged bullets...

If you are going to shoot a lot... you might be better off purchasing bulk reloading bullets and a sabot that will fit your gun for the caliber you are shooting....

I forget what rifle you are shooting but there is aright combination for every rifle. Sometimes you have to really look for it. I am forunate my rifles seem to shoot what ever i can stuff down the barrel. I use to think it was really important to shoot a bullet close to the muzzle size so for my 50's I have been shooting .451/.451/.458 bullets. Since Del set me a little straight (owner MMP) I have kindagone back to shooting .429/.430's with his new HPH sabots.... Ituse to be that I would get fliers out of the blue but the other day everything wemt great... + what really ruined my theory was shoot 10mm 200 grain Hornady XTP's in an MMP blue sabot.. what a screaming bullet and it is really accurate...

So for me the key for you is finding the right sabot... Harvester and MMP are the two leading manufactures. There is no reason to force, pound, or stand on your ram-rod to get a bullet down - all they need to do is slide down snugly - and I am even wondering about that lately...

The Harvester regular and the MMP HPH-24 are made for rather tight barrels (50 cal variety) If those are to tight the companies have developed an even thinner sabot... forHarvester they have created the "crush rib" both in 44/50 and 45/50. MMP has created theHPH-3p-ez which I found worked better for me than the"crush rib" (I had greater velocity with the 3p than I did the CR) but it only comes 45/50

If I had to choose bullets, and I would need to choose 3 -(1)I would go with the Nosler Partition for hunting .451/260 grain for deer .451/300 grain for elk (expensive) (2) Speer Gold Dots .452/250 for deer .452/300 for elk. (3)Hornady10mm 200 grain XTP's for deer. Both 2&3 are inexpensive enough toshoot at paper also.

hope some of this helps...