Originally Posted by
flint head
Any of ya'll tried Harvester's .50 sabots made for the .40 bullets? I have a new in the box .50 Disc Eilte I'll be setting up soon... I thought about making it a long range deer rifle with a heavy load of BH and maybe a 195 Barnes or 200 Lehigh if it will shoot well... any thoughs??
I had the same idea in a way. I kinda don't have a use for my Triumph, so i decided to try them Harvester sabot, and the 200g SST in it. I kinda wanted to pit the V2 against the Triumph, but them sabot are too loose in the V2, so my guess, is the same as
Gm54-120 wrote, that the Harvester sabot will be too loose in your Knight.
Yesterday i shot the Triumph, and them .40 SST at 200 yard. The group ended up 3 shots in 3 1/8". There was a little breeze, but not much. Hopefully things will get better with different amounts of powder. I thought i was shooting 115g of BH209, but discussion with
Semisane indicated i was shooting somewhere over 120g. What i did was weigh my charge and use the 0.7 weght/volume ratio, and it doesn't seem to be correct. The ratio of weight:volume seems more like 0.68 when using the U-view measure. At any rate whatever amount of BH i was really shooting, it clocks at about 2125 fps at the muzzle. The BH load i was shooting weighs about 80.5g on a balance scale.