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Old 09-06-2009 | 04:14 PM
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Default T/C Shockwave Bullets?

Anyone have any experience shooting the T/C Shockwave with the super glide sabots and the bonded bullets? I put a new scope on my ML and had some of the older shockwaves (250gr) with the black sabot (non bonded bullet) on that I used to get my gun hitting close, however, I didn't have enough of these to last. So...I go to the dealer and am told that the super glide sabots (yellow) would add a little downrange distance. I'm headed to Kansas in a few weeks so I thought this would be helpful. To make a long story short, I purchased the super glide in the same grain as I had been shooting. After shooting 10 shots with the gun on a shooting bench and locked down, these bullets were everywhere! The gun was cleaned between every shot with no consistency. So I go back and purchase the 250gr non-bonded bullets with the black sabots and they are shooting deadly groups at 150 yds. After getting the gun sighted in, I noticed something. Walking down from where I was shooting, the black sabots were all lying appx. 10 yards downrange all relatively all together. These sabots have 4 fins like a shotgun wad and all were opened perfectly. After finding this, I walked further down to try and find the yellow super glide sabots. They were scattered anywhere from 20 yds to as far as 60 yards downrange. These sabots only have two fins and I'm assuming aren't designed to open as the bullet leaves them because none were. Half of them, however were missing one of the fins with a few missing both. I cannot help but think that this is the reason for their inaccuracy. Maybe I'm missing something, but the 5$ a box cheaper regular Shockwaves seem to be the more trustworty bullet. So I was wondering if anyone else has had any experience with the super glides and how they shot?
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