ORIGINAL: Buck Hunter 1
This advice makes sense to me and is from a writer namedsemisane at a nother site:
tight, loose and snug are pretty subjective terms and could even be dependent on the arm strenght or height of the person loading the gun. I don't know of anywhere you can find pounds of pressure data.
Here's my personal guide.
- If I can seat the load with just my thumb and two fingers on the rod, it's too loose.
- If I can seat it with one long stroke and a firm one hand grip on the rod, it's probably going to shoot well.
- If I can seat it with one long stroke, but it takes both hands on the rod, it's probably going to be better. This is the fit I'm looking for.
- If it takes both hands on the rod and stop/start short stroke increments to get it down the bore, it might shoot well, but I won't bother with it.
You gave an excellent description of what I have been calling "Golilocks tight" sabots. Not pound them down or force them down, butpush them downwith a good amount of force. With a Savage smokeless, this is #1 accuracy problem and #1 misfire problem for most shooters. Will also be the #1 problem with Blackhorn I believe, since it appears from all description to be "smokeless power" with some smoke to make things legal. Sounds like a great product, we will see if it takes off like 777 did to pyrodex.
Chap Gleason