RE: Crush Rib sabots
 

Well if all goes according to the weather guru's
here in West Kentucky Saturday is supposed to
be tolerable! A friend dropped off some old wet
phone books today so I'll have something to
play with. I will be using the Crushrib sabots .451
with the 300gr. Barnes Expanders kleenbore 209
primer 150gr. APP. I hope to run some unscientfic
tests with the phonebooks; depth of penetration;
condition of recovered bullets. Also try for some
good 40-50 yard groups shooting off-hand. So if
mother nature will help-out I may have some
info to post on Saturday. :D

RE: Crush Rib sabots
 

Your penetration tests with the Barnes Expanders will be very interesting. I conducted some tests over a year ago shooting 100 grains of Triple Se7en and I was very impressed to say the least. I will be looking forward for your test results.

RE: Crush Rib sabots
 

cayugad

Do you remember a poster named Chapman Gleason? I can not remember which we site he was posting one, but he has a website with his penetrations experiments. I was trying to find it to drop a link here but I am running into a wall...

He ran his test through 18" of soil then a 2x6 plank and measured the penetration. His conclusion was the Nosler 300 grain Partition achieved the greatest penetration. I sent him some .458's Noslers to try and they virtually performed the same as the .451's - which surprised me - I really though they would get greater penetration.

What was the site that dropped inlines? That may have been the place...

RE: Crush Rib sabots
 

http://www.muzzleloadingforum.com/fusionbb/fusionbb.php?

It was the Muzzleloading Forum.Com I think they not only got rid of the inline topics but deleted all that information. I might be wrong there. I remember those tests he did. I just could not recall his name... They were a good test. He packed dirt in a 5 gallon pail/bucket and then had a board on the front of it and shot into all of that as I remember.