Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
Sabot.............Have you tried a tighter setup? My Renegade stock barrel like a .490 ball and .015 patch, or a .495 ball with a .010 patch.
It has a Green Mountain 1-70 twist 32" barrel now, and really shoots a PRB. If you get serious about target shooting. You should consider the GM barrel. Easier to hold steady too.
There is was an error in my labeling, the patch was a 0.015 cotton patch. I did also try 0.495 with both a 0.015 and 0.010 patch but the 0.015 was really tight and the 0.010 shredded more often than it stayed together. Which even today, so do 0.018 Pillow Ticking with a 0.490 ball.
I really wish I had a real round ball twist barrel just to try in one of my Renegades... but for what I am doing with them the 1/48 works fine. If I were hunting with them and round balls I probably would get a slow twist for sure.
That reminds me I have another chapter, actually a question I should put in my HCMAL thread... gotta go work on that right now....