hometheaterman

I shoot the 250's and the 300's with either 120 grains of T7-2f in all of my Knights and White. I use 110 grains in the TC's and Remington.

I have never had a problem with the 250 shooting them with these loads. The 250's hqve a very deep hollow point and will fly great to 175 yards - after 175 they still have the energy but you will start having to compensate for drop. For whitetail I would shoot the 250's and for elk the 300's...

Because of the cupped base on the Gold Dot/Deep Curl for it to work effectivly it needs to be shot with decent velocity... IMO



They shoot really well also...



The 250 do alright also..

One other thing to add, I've been shooting the .44 cal, 240 GDHP/Deep Curls with good accuracy. I got a doe this past Saturday. It was not my best shooting as I hit her a bit far back. At first I thought I missed (no blood at point of impact) but I eventually found her about 120 yds away. The shot barely nicked the lungs but the bullet destroyed the liver on it's way through (and through) with massive internal damage. At about 100 yds she really started to bleed out.

So I learned two things.

1 - even with a less than perfect shot, the Speer still wrecked enough havoc to put the deer down quickly.

2 - Always to a thorough search, even if I think I missed. Took me about an hour to find her even though she did not run too far.

I shoot the 230gr GDHP out of my omega with 90gr 2fg Goex and a Knight orange EZ sabot.
they tend to string horizontally in my gun,but they are all touching.They seem to like a
good bit of fouling in my gun,but they shoot real good.

Okay, so I finally went ahead and ordered some of these things. I only got a box of 50 and a box of the 50 sabots mentioned earlier in this post. I wanted to make sure they shot well before buying a couple of boxes. I hope these things shoot well.

Okay, so I'm going to bring this thread back up. I'm almost done shooting up the box that I ordered. I was wondering if I want to try a different sabot which Crush Rib one do I need to get to use the 300 grain Deep Curls? Is it safe to assume the crush rib sabots will load easier? That's my only complaint is that these things with the short black sabots are very hard to load in one of the muzzle loaders I tried them in. I like how these shoot, I love the price, and I love the fact that they shoot to the exact same poi as the Federal Fusion ones, so I can change between the two if I run out of one or the other.

hometheaterman

The Harvester 'Crush Rib' should go down the bore easier than the regular Harvester sabot.

You could also consider the MMP sabots, try the black HPH 24s for tighter fitting bores. For even tighter bores, you could use the HPH 3 Petal EZ.

Ive had surprising good luck with the 3P EZ and the 250gr GoldDot in a few guns...even if they loaded a bit loose. The 300gr i had the best luck with the HPH-24 and heavier charges.

If you have a micrometer, check the size of the 250s. Lately they seem to run a bit on the large side but the 300gr seems to be right on the money or very close.

I see here the different sabots listed from different manuf. I am wondering what sabot Hornady uses for their SST's? I have both the reg. 250 SST with a black sabot and I just picked up some Low Drag SST's with a red sabot, not the stick one. The only difference I see are that the red ones are about a 1/4" shorter.
I shoot a Knight Disc Extreme and it really likes the 250 SST over 110 T7-2f and Winch. 209.

Im not sure on the SST black sabot, Its either a HPH12 or the HPH-24. The red SST sabot has 3 petals and is likely a MMP 3P EZ in a different color.