Originally Posted by
sabotloader
I can tell you this and I hate to admit it... but the other day shooting the 52 - I dry holed a .458/300 grain Lehigh in a MMP .458/52 cal sabot. I new it as soon as I pushed the bullet down... but instaed of taking the the BP out _ I loaded up a W209 went back to the bench and pulled the trigger - all was forgiven... the sabot and bullet passed through the chrono - it registered on the chorno, but i forgot what it was and I certainly did not write it down in the shooting log... we found the sabot - but not the bullet and we looked but it was lost in the tall grass.
I did this last weekend and the Winchester 777 primers didn't even budget the bullet. I had to pull the breach plug and push the bullet through. I had been using regular shotgun primers but read that they may move the bullet before the powder fully ignited so I switched to the less powerful primers. Sounds like people's experience in this thread doesn't really bare that out.