I have used this bullet/sabot combination for my Whitetail deer hunting. I wanted to save some money and purchase a box of 100 240gr Hornady XTP bullets and then buy the sabots separate. The only 240gr Hornady XTP bullets I could find were XTP Mags. The Mags are apparently tougher than the regular XTP's made for higher rifle velocities. I assumed the Thompson/Center XTP package had mags in it too. Well after a lot of googling I could not find any definitive info on what is in the Thompson/Center package.

Recently, I purchased the 240gr XTP Mags. A box of 100. They did not look the same as the 240gr XTP's in the Thompson/Center XTP package. They were a little taller, the hollowpoint was a little smaller, and the nose was a little more rounded with only 4 cuts in it. The Thompson XTP's had 6 cuts in the nose.

So today I went out and tested the two bullets in water to see if they expanded the same. They did not.

The XTP Mag performed much better expanding to .765" and retaining 222gr of weight.

The Thompson/Center Packaged XTP expanded to .560 and retained only 160gr of weight. It looked like a muffin with its top removed.

My conclusion is that the Thompson/Center XTP in Mag Express Sabot is not a XTP Mag bullet but a regular XTP. I will be using the XTP Mag this year for my deer.

I wrote this up because I could not find any definitive info on this subject anywhere but saw a number of people wondering the same thing I was about what type of XTP bullet is in the Thompson/Center packaged XTP.

I was going to put a photo in but could not get it to upload so sorry. Dang computers.