Originally Posted by
MountainDevil54
a .45cal with 1:48 twist is normally a patched ball shooter. The smaller the cal, normally the faster twist they will have. Large bores having the slower 1:60 twist and slower is much more common than a .45cal with 1:66 twist.
Well I know that
Devil. The gun is designed to be a round ball shooter. But I have several different brands of 45/40 sabots and and assortment of .40 caliber bullets. So you know I'm going to give it a try for grins and giggles. You just won't see the report in this forum.
Uh-OH! I probably should not have said that here. 
Originally Posted by
Muley Hunter
I owned that gun. It had deep groove rifling. Do sabots work in it?
Don't know Muley. They might work. It will be interesting to see what happens with 180 and 200 grain .40 caliber bullets. I haven't tried to measure the depth of the rifling. Eyeballing it, I would call it a bit deeper than the rifling on my Omega and not as deep as the rifling on my Green Mountain ball barrels.
I can get one of Ed Mehlig's 350 grain .451 conicals in the bore with very firm thumb pressure. So those will get a try also. Come to think of it, I have some .45 sabots for .357 bullets, and some 158 grain .357's. Man, the first range session with this gun is going to be really fun.