I unashamedly reuse my sabots

[nekshot]

One time I wondered if I could reuse these as I would throw them away. Most are in perfect condition except for powder burns so I tried shooting them again and they loaded easier and the shot better (honest-no joke). So I keep all that are in good shape and if I use a gun hunting that uses sabots I make sure to take used ones instead of brand new.

[fogg64]

I guess you are breaking them in. If they shoot better than I image they needed that. I like the idea of reusing them especially with the improved results.

[dtknowles]

I guess I could try reusing them. I got a deal on a bunch so I never thought of it.

Tim

[Janoosh]

Thanks for posting this. I thought I was the only one. My friends laugh as I pick them up at the range. I use them for practice/ trigger time.

[Geezer in NH]

Hey I have reused shotgun wads picked up on the trap range why not!!

[richhodg66]

I will have to try this now. Never occurred to me. What kind of sabots are they? Do you think all types will respond the same way?

[newton]

Better question is what bullet do you use in them?

[nekshot]

The guns are 50 cal and we have alot of 44 cal molds so thats what the sabots are for. Harvester and Hornady sabots. I size all boolits to .430 and I only reuse the sabots that are in good shape. I got 3 shots out of some. Hornady sabots are harder and don't hold up as well as the harvester sabots. The accuracy does not change if it is a 225 gr boolit seated deep in the sabot or a 310 gr boolit that fills the sabot and the nose sticks out. I go with what grain boolit and powder charge gives best accuracy. We have taken a number of deer at the one hay field that requires 150 yard shots and all had broken shoulder pass thru's. No boolit to find but a dead deer that did not go far at all!

[Janoosh]

I notice some sabots at the range I use are blown out the end and often wonder at the accuracy of such loads. I use 80 grns black 3f and a hornady 50 sabot/230grn/430 size. Thompson Center Hawken with a quick twist barrel. It's good for N.Y. woods to 100. Thru and thru.

[Texantothecore]

In days of yore, shooters reused leather patches until they wore out. Which answers the question of how they were able to carry months worth of patches. They didn't but made them using the skin of last night's dinner.

They also stacked them so that they could use a smaller round ball. Very clever guys.

[wgr]

i reused a sabot 4 times just to see how many times i could befor it failed. i gues a long as the petals are intact their good

[Elkins45]

I have reused the green ones (44 in 50) and they seem to work OK at the normal 90 grain Pyrodex loads I shot. I haven't tried to reuse the black ones (45 in 50) in my smokeless Savage, mostly because they are harder to find. I wish they had chosen zombie green or hunter orange instead of black to color the plastic with.

[starmac]

I don't know how true it is, but there was suppose to have been an old time trapper up here that recovered his boolit out of his moose and reused it for several years.

[Wilkie]

I hear he also re-used his percussion caps as well.....:bigsmyl2:

[nekshot]

I wonder if he's the old fella that got extra use out of his under wear by turning it inside out to use both sides!!

[starmac]

I don't know about that one, but I have read about an old trapper that nailed his tin plates to the table, so the gogs could lick them clean without scattering them. lol

[james nicholson]

I think it was in "The Ballad of Cable Houge", starring Jason Robards, where he nailed the plates to the table at the stage coach rest stop to make them easier to wash.

[Pb2au]

I hear he also re-used his percussion caps as well.....:bigsmyl2:
I know I do. I just turn them inside out.