loading ed sabots

[stripercrazy]

87375 finally got to load some of Ed's sabots and 500 gr minibullets......42gr of steel ,a gas seal ,a nitro hard card and 2 felt spacers......3 inch Remington hulls

[cpileri]

good luck and let us know how they shoot. better still post some tested velocity and pressure results!
C-

[dverna]

Why are the crimps so poor? Just wondering it crimps have any bearing on accuracy.

Don Verna

[stripercrazy]

i'll post the target im going sunday......there 1x fired hulls and i'm new first time I used 6 point hulls 3 inch shells too....i'm sure a good crimp matters

[hubel458]

How thick are the felt wads. If you got to use star crimp, it should be down in a
little more, maybe use 1 wad, so as to keep proper pressure on the wad column, for
uniform ignition. Ed

[SuperBlazingSabots]

Greetings, the sabots cost $4 to 5 a pop, when you load your own, your cost goes down to 50 to 85 cents per pop, we put in a lot of time and effort into assembling our load the right way then why not use new hulls at $8.99 a 100 on special from BPI and lets give your sabot load a chance to show its merits and lets not short change the results and give it a fighting chance to show the results.

Use your once fired hulls for OO or OOO Buck shots etc.

When you load your own, as it is you are saving a good deal lets buy good quality components and not Imitation cheap crapy wads etc like some of the shooters buy and then find out for themselves that they are crappy wads and fall apart!

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He treats his failures simply as practice shots. ~ Charles F. Kettering

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[OnHoPr]

Those are fine for preliminary testing. When you start loading a number of test groups in different configurations it can take a few shells to do the fine tuning on a particular loads crimp. If they show promise at 50 yards then the next time fine tune the crimp. Notice if the slightly irregular crimps shoot differently in general from the others and take note. With the hulls, after a few firings the hulls seem to not get the accuracy as they did previously, but that was with the lee slug and various wads and the rss sabot.

[stripercrazy]

ok, i'll try the new hulls see how they do in my load all.....Ed, the felt is thin like a 1/8 inch, i'll try one felt spacer.thanks everyone for your help

[stripercrazy]

87697 got 25 loaded for tomorrow can't wait

[PrecisionAmmunition]

Let me know how these shot I have cleared ed out and bought 3000 sabots for myself.

[stripercrazy]

I ran out of time and only got to shoot 1 shot...my gun was shooting high.....the one I shot had a kick lol hopely this weekend ill be back at the range

[stripercrazy]

got them on paper(in the black) first time shooting the gun @25 yards....you guys were right about the hulls(1x shot) I should have got new...I sized them in my lee loader and had a hard time sizing and getting the primer out at the same time, so I popped out the primer and then sized them...not too well I guess I had a hard time loading them and after fireing I got one stuck in the gun it didn't extract...I got to take it out with the cleaning rod....bullets were grouping high left in the black before the shell got stuck.....live and learn lol

[SuperBlazingSabots]

Brother Stripercrazy, I do not know what you are using in your load, if you already have not ordered and are going to order newer hulls then please only order one bag of Federal straight walled hulls with Fed. 209A magnum primers as that's what is on the hulls, for one thing these Federal hulls are much stronger and will not expand easily and get stuck in your chamber after firing!

They are not cheap:
Federal 12ga 2-3/4" new/primed/clear hull (100/bag)
http://www.ballisticproducts.com/Federal-12ga-2-3_4-new_primed_clear-hull-100_bag/productinfo/0621275/

Federal 12ga 3" new/primed hull (100/bag)
http://www.ballisticproducts.com/Federal-12ga-3-new_primed-hull-100_bag/productinfo/0621230/

Fiocchi 12ga 2.75" 16mm clear hull (bag/100)
http://www.ballisticproducts.com/Fiocchi-12ga-275-16mm-clear-hull-bag_100/productinfo/064121600/

Fiocchi 12ga 3" 16mm brown hull (100/bag)
http://www.ballisticproducts.com/Fiocchi-12ga-3-16mm-brown-hull-100_bag/productinfo/0641230/

Remember the Fiochi are good hulls but not as strong as the Federal but cheaper!

Good luck next time.

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Hoping it helps.
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[stripercrazy]

Ajay, Thanks again. I'll be buying new.....I've shot 200 slugs in the last 2 weeks and I'm loveing it...

[Carryacolt]

I think he's got the "bug". Stripercrazy, if you do some searching on this site, you may save yourself a lot of time by not having to "reinvent the wheel", not to mention saving dollar bills. The guys here have covered a lot of ground here over the last couple of years. They can change the entire way you approach field tests and how you load your rounds. They have learned much and share it all freely. My thanks to all that have shared their findings to the rest of us.