How thick can you make a paper sabot? IE. can you make paper sabots to shoot .430 & .451s in .50 and .401 & .430s in a .450? I was reading the .17 sabot thread and realized that if I can build my own sabots I have a much larger selection of boolits to use in my MLs and paper sabots would be cheaper than $8-10 per 50 for plastic sabots AND I won't have to clean the plastic out the barrel and the paper sabots may well be sturdier than plastic and not as sensitive to barrel heating etc... Would I have to PP the sabot? How should I build the sabots? Could I build a sabot for a certain size boolit and then use same calibre boolits or would each sabot be made individually for each boolit? I have shot patched roundball, minies and REAL boolits for 50+ years and plastic sabots for 15 years so I'm familiar with that but I've never used paper except to replicate musket ammo for my .58 and.69. I'm mostly thinking of this for my Savage ML II where I shoot 4759 and for my new Encore where I plan to use White Hots and Blackhorn 209. Can you suggest some searches to do if this has been covered before? I'm sure there are some Qs about this that I haven't considered but I'm sure they will surface soon enough. These are a lot of Qs but I'm soooooo new to the PP idea. Thanks to all and WOW for the knowledge that shows up on CB board. Best to all! 10 ga