I decided to take the day off from yard work and shoot. It was nice and sunny, but windy. I set the target at 100 yards (after a little brush clearing work). I was shooting my .50 caliber Remington Genesis. I have an offer to hunt a pretty good field and wanted a field shooting rifle. The Omega scope is on the Genesis and it normally shoots real good. But I wanted to push the rifle and see how hard I could push a 250 grain Hornady XTP with different kinds of sabots.

Rifle: Remington Genesis .50 caliber stainless steel 28 inch barrel
Scope: Nikon 3-9x40 Omega (without the BDC)
Powder: Pyrodex RS @ Winchester W209 primers
Sabots : MMP HPH -24 & Harvester E-Z Load
Range: 100 yards according to range finder
Weather: 60º sunny and very windy

I started with the MMP HPH-24 sabots. They loaded kind of hard but I think I could load them with the supplied ramrod. I put in 100 grains of Pyrodex RS.



Granted it was windy but I was not happy with that. Also I did not like the way the MMP loaded so I changed over to a Harvester E-Z load sabot. This is not the Harvester Crushed Rib sabot.



I loaded up 110 grains of Pyrodex RS and the Harvester sabot this time. I liked the way they loaded better then the MMP. BUT they were still a stiff loading sabot. I also liked the first three shots at the target. I was swabbing between shots with Dollar Store Windex. Then I had to push the issue and #4 happened... I will of course take the blame for it.



I then upped the powder charge to 120 grains of Pyrodex RS. Not as bad as I thought it would be. #5 and #3 kind of hard to explain. But over all that was a good stout load.

This rifle was treated with Montana X-treme Bore Conditioner. I dry patched the barrel before I started. I swabbed with cheap Windex. And the clean up was a snap.

I read posts of people using this bullet at long ranges and having good results with it. So there are a few more I want to test but this one is in the running.

Nice report Dave,
Semi sent me a few GoldDots to try and my Genesis loved them, also the FPB's at 100yds worked nicely. The T/C shockwaves seem to shoot well out of every gun I own.. but I prefer the regular not superglides. Ever try those Lehigh's in the Genesis?

Another good Cayugad report. I've been using the Harvester regular short sabots (H5045SB) in just about all of my 50 caliber guns. They just seem to do as well as (or better than) anything else.

What size gold dots were you shooting? I know the rifle likes Shockwaves, especially the 200 grain. Does yours like a certain sabot. And yes I have shot the Lehigh and they shot real well.

I want to really get this rifle able to shoot 150 yards as it would allow me more coverage where I want to hunt. But 100 yards would do the trick.

I think I bought some of them ... they are on one of the racks. I will have to look for them and try them out.

The Speer was a .452/300grain with the H5045BR crush rib