ORIGINAL: Nolehoe
hey Chap,the Spitfires might fit a little loose in that Savage, can you use the MMP12 with them? I would mind trying out some of those Parkers myself, the ballistics gel results on that other site were impressive.
That is what I am going to try, a Spitfire MZ 285g with the MMP12 sabot, since I believe they are flat based on the bottom. I like the Parkers, but have now heard some fragmentation issues with them on bone hits, that is why I want to go to a Barnes, stronger bullet with better penetration capability. They retain 100% of weight on must shots. Beautiful buck.
As a note several of the people over on Doug's Savage Board shoot Barnes TMZ 290g and they get them a hair bigger by taking a couple of files and rolling the bullet in it. It roughs it up a bit and makes it .001 bigger in the sabot and that gives it the grip to the sabot to be more accurate. I prefer not to do that, but it might come to that, after I do some testing.
Chap