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Old 08-04-2009 | 03:11 PM
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Default Speer .429 210 Grain Gold Dot

Has anyone tried these with a 50/44 sabot? Speer lists them as handgun hunting bullets.

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Old 08-04-2009 | 03:35 PM
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I bought a box of them, as I liked the ooks of them.. reminded me of a goot-ole 30-30 flat nose bullet...

I have not shot any of them - do not even know where they are right now... but, I had read a few reports on them and the results were not always that encouraging so I stayed with the .452/250's

I think Lee has shot them - but no sure...
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Old 08-04-2009 | 06:37 PM
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No, I have looked at the but not bought any the ideal length for a .430 bullet is .97 assuming that we would want to shoot it at 1800 to 2000 FPS. I thought it was so short that it would over stabilize. It might be a good choice to try with a sabot in a 1-48 twist. Lee
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Old 08-04-2009 | 08:59 PM
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Well I'm glad to hear the luke-warm comments that will probably cool my interest and save me some pennies. I guess I was looking at them out of boredom since I'm a heavy bullet fan anyway. I'll just stick to my 300 grain GDs, which have never failed me.
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Old 08-05-2009 | 05:46 AM
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Semisane,
I bought a box of 100 to load for my Redhawk but they did not shoot too well with the load I tried. So not to let them go to waste, I bought the green crush ribbed sabots and tried them in my Omega behind 90 grains RS. They accuracy was pretty good but I have never used them on game.

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