Originally Posted by
lemoyne
..Well I am guessing as I Have not thought of any way to verify this, But my best guess is the shape of the bullet with the air coming off that big hollow point has a lot to do with it, the more streamline bullets shoot better with shorter sabots. Of course I could be wrong and it could be the vibration of the barrel that is the controlling factor..
That's an interesting idea - it would seem logical that some aerodynamic principle would give us a 'rule of thumb' that would guide you to proper bullet / sabot selection.