I haven't see a down side to them. Bullet vs sabot length question. Last Edit: Nov 27, 2018 17:37:37 GMT -5 by ... As they only hunt a day or two a year and are not too interested in the muzzleloading aspect recently since Ohio now … The .45 cal CVA Kodiac uses the 195 grain .40 cal Barnes Expander in the plain blue Harvester sabot. Arrowhead XLD bullets Bullets & Sabots – Arrowhead Rifles Fury bullets Black powder muzzleloader (furycustombullets.com) Parker bullets Muzzleloading Projectiles -- Sabots … One reason I really liked the full bore conicals over the sabots was they were far easier to load after the barrel had a little bit of fouling. Hornady 50cal 300gr FPB Muzzleloader Bullet and use blackhorn 209 powder to push them. The slug gun may have a slight advantage in inclement weather for consistent firing but these days muzzle loaders are pretty … My Optima CVA .50 cal pistol uses a .44 cal XPB Barnes on a green crush rib Harvester sabot. sticky but I didn't see anything about the length of the sabot … The bullet performance is night and day better than my sabot rounds. The resiliency and compressability (new word) of the polymers used to produce sabots made it possible to use the same sabot and bullet combinations in various diameter bores - that is, within a reasonable variation of … The new Federal 300-grain Trophy Copper shotgun slug is an expanding, solid copper bullet with a polymer tip and represents the leading edge of slug … The saving grace of this era of muzzleloader development was the plastic saboted bullet. Shotgun slugs have changed and evolved over the past few decades so that the modern sabot slug is now very similar to the modern sabot muzzleloader bullet. The bullets load so easy compared to the sabots as well. Foster and Brenneke are both considered to be rifled shotgun slugs, but what is a sabot slug? Instead of fitting a full slug into a shell, sabot slugs are encased in a plastic cylinder and then fitted inside the shell. I wouldn't say the sabots were more accurate, just depends on matching the bullet / powder combo with your barrel twist and other factors. It allows a narrower projectile with high … Joined Dec 4, 2007 Messages 397. This is what I use. Inline muzzleloader competitors are all shooting bullet to bore. A sabot (UK: / s æ ˈ b oʊ, ˈ s æ b oʊ /, US: / ˈ s eɪ b oʊ /) is a supportive device used in firearm/artillery ammunitions to fit/patch around a projectile, such as a bullet/slug or a flechette-like projectile (such as a kinetic energy penetrator), and keep it aligned in the center of the barrel when fired. Thread starter johnpb; Start date May 29, 2010; Help Support Modern Muzzleloader: J. johnpb Well-Known Member. May 29, 2010 #1 I was looking in the sabot dia. Here I thought it had to do with twist rates and bullet length vs cup bepth of sabot. Sabots are and always have been, always will be the weakest link. A saboted slug from a rifled barrel on a slug gun is still only 150 yard gun although I'm sure some will go farther. The evolution of technology in firearms provides you with a number of choices when choosing your weapon for deer firearms season. Sabot Slugs. Pronounced “say-bo,” these slugs are completely different in design than its counterparts. Inline Muzzleloading. I'm using 240gr T/C XTP jacketed hollow points. Where a good smokeless inline muzzleloader is more like a 250 yard gun. Muzzleloading, Firearms and Optics. I have three guns that I hunt with: a .50 cal CVA Accura V2 that uses a .45 cal XPB in a black crush rib sabot. Shooting a T/C Encore Pro Hunter in .50 cal and been having a heck of time getting the sabots down the barrel without some extra loving (I swab the barrel every 5-6 shots). The muzzleloader shoots as good as a rifle and similarly, deer hunting with a slug gun is becoming common and even required in a lot of states across the country.