Does anyone have any experience with sabots in this cartridge?
I know it sounds counter intuitive because we have gone to so much trouble to get a big heavy bullet on the AR platform, but I want to shoot a heavy bullet such as a Sintered Tungsten, a machined non-lead, a bullet without a guilding metal or copper jacket in the rifle. Those materials (unless they have a polymer binder like some of the frangible bullets) won't engrave or engage the rifling well so I am looking at .45/.40 and .45/.357 sabots or anything in between. Actually a Ø.375 bullet would also give a nice BC for a machinable tungsten projectile.
We're not talking about hyper velocity bullets once you pass 250 grains so I'm assuming that the sabots normally used for Muzzleloaders should work at those velocities. Also many may not realize it, but black powder burns hotter than smokeless powders and if the polymer sabot will survive excessive melting with BP loads then the sabots should do well with seasoned .458 barrels with up to 2,000 fps loads.
Also, does anyone have any experience with the ribbed sabots in this rifle or even the muzzleloaders?
Thanks,
Mako
I know it sounds counter intuitive because we have gone to so much trouble to get a big heavy bullet on the AR platform, but I want to shoot a heavy bullet such as a Sintered Tungsten, a machined non-lead, a bullet without a guilding metal or copper jacket in the rifle. Those materials (unless they have a polymer binder like some of the frangible bullets) won't engrave or engage the rifling well so I am looking at .45/.40 and .45/.357 sabots or anything in between. Actually a Ø.375 bullet would also give a nice BC for a machinable tungsten projectile.
We're not talking about hyper velocity bullets once you pass 250 grains so I'm assuming that the sabots normally used for Muzzleloaders should work at those velocities. Also many may not realize it, but black powder burns hotter than smokeless powders and if the polymer sabot will survive excessive melting with BP loads then the sabots should do well with seasoned .458 barrels with up to 2,000 fps loads.
Also, does anyone have any experience with the ribbed sabots in this rifle or even the muzzleloaders?
Thanks,
Mako