I decided to take the day off from yard work and shoot. It was nice and sunny, but windy. I set the target at 100 yards (after a little brush clearing work). I was shooting my .50 caliber Remington Genesis. I have an offer to hunt a pretty good field and wanted a field shooting rifle. The Omega scope is on the Genesis and it normally shoots real good. But I wanted to push the rifle and see how hard I could push a 250 grain Hornady XTP with different kinds of sabots.

Rifle: Remington Genesis .50 caliber stainless steel 28 inch barrel
Scope: Nikon 3-9x40 Omega (without the BDC)
Powder: Pyrodex RS @ Winchester W209 primers
Sabots : MMP HPH -24 & Harvester E-Z Load
Range: 100 yards according to range finder
Weather: 60º sunny and very windy

I started with the MMP HPH-24 sabots. They loaded kind of hard but I think I could load them with the supplied ramrod. I put in 100 grains of Pyrodex RS.



Granted it was windy but I was not happy with that. Also I did not like the way the MMP loaded so I changed over to a Harvester E-Z load sabot. This is not the Harvester Crushed Rib sabot.



I loaded up 110 grains of Pyrodex RS and the Harvester sabot this time. I liked the way they loaded better then the MMP. BUT they were still a stiff loading sabot. I also liked the first three shots at the target. I was swabbing between shots with Dollar Store Windex. Then I had to push the issue and #4 happened... I will of course take the blame for it.



I then upped the powder charge to 120 grains of Pyrodex RS. Not as bad as I thought it would be. #5 and #3 kind of hard to explain. But over all that was a good stout load.

This rifle was treated with Montana X-treme Bore Conditioner. I dry patched the barrel before I started. I swabbed with cheap Windex. And the clean up was a snap.

I read posts of people using this bullet at long ranges and having good results with it. So there are a few more I want to test but this one is in the running.