The early 250 grain Shockwaves and the early 250 grain Hornady SST bullets had soft plastic tips. Later Shockwave and SST bullets have hard plastic tips. IMO: The ones with the soft plastic tips give better expansion on hogs.

The bonded Shockwave is made for TC. The jacket of that bullet is much heavier.

My Encore and Black Diamond guns give the best accuracy with the tight fitting red and the tight fitting black MMP sabots. Accuracy is not nearly as good with the low drag sabots but is is acceptable to me. Accuracy with the super glide sabots is non-existent. The Harvester crush rib sabots also give good accuracy in my guns.

If the wrong ramrod tip is used, it is possible to deform the nose of the SST/Shockwave bullet just behind the tip. A bullet so deformed will not expand right, if at all.