DCM
What sort of trouble do folks have with the sabots?
Modern day sabots do not present the plastic fouling that the oldersabots did. The ne w polymere formulation has about eliminated that problem.
If you read the orignal post he ementions he was shooting vey old 'green' 44 cal sabots. Sabots that old were not meant for much of charge and certainly not the heat that T7 or BH would generate. That alone would start the plastic melting and the deposit of fouling - then include the velocity of the sabot up the barrel creating more heat in the petals - plastic fouling is going to occur. The best way and the quickest in the world is boil it out - pore boiling water done the barrel that will melt and dislodge the plastic.
Todays sabot is made of a much different polymere designed for the higher heat, higher pressure of the loads being shot today + the are more accurate than those of the past...
So shoot the heck out of your newer sabots if you got 'em..