Originally Posted by
JoeRE
How many of you have tried rifle bullets in sabots with much higher Ballistic Coefficients than the small fast pistol bullets that he did not like? It seems like the happy medium between the extremes...
For instance, I am looking at the 200 gr FTX in .358 with a 35/45 sabot in a 1:20 twist. It has a published BC of .30. I could get really crazy and go for a .35 Barnes TSX with a far higher BC if I wanted to.
Also, I get confused over what full bore conicals out there are designed for blackpowder cartridges, what conicals are for smokeless powder, and what bullets actually are designed for blackpowder muzzleloading...can I just buy bullets designed for blackpowder cartridge reloading and get good results?
I'm not so sure you would get enough velocity for many of the rifle bullets to perform effectively.
Most blackpowder conicals are a pure , or soft lead while cartridge guns usually use a 20-1 or 30-1 lead that would be extremely hard or impossible to load in a muzzleloader. 30-1 would be the hardest I would try to load in a muzzleloader. Also many cartidge bullets have a brass gas check on the base which you dont really want either. The soft lead conical, especially a hollow base, expands into the rifling to creat a gas check.
But it never hurts to experiment.
