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@LHR thanks. I didn't know they made a crushrib green sabot for .44s. Went and looked it up.
https://www.grafs.com/retail/catalog/product/productId/5464
I did not know either that's probably a game changer!!
That’s interesting. I found that the black crush rib .45 was just a tad too easy loading and I guessed that was my accuracy problem. That’s when I switched to the green crush rib.44’s and immediately noticed a tighter fit and tighter groups too. Both shooting 300 gr. bullets.If you're serious about getting .44 cal bullets to shoot you need to have both plain and crush ribs handy. This is an observation I have made and adjusted to when using my Optima pistol: warm weather shooting at the club means I really need the crush rib with the two bullets I shoot. When the temps dip into the 20's at the club things begin to get different, the gun seems to lose some zip and I figured out that when I notice it to switch back to the regular green sabot and I am right back on track. I do not have to change anything powder-wise but when it's cold, as in hunting, I need to have the addition snugness of the standard sabot to keep or offer more pressure on the charge. May not be the case with your gun but with mine it is a given.
I cannot get 44 cal bullets to shoot in 28 twist 50 cal barrels,, I have a shelf full of 44 cal bullets many of them I bought when I first started shooting 28 twist muzzleloaders and blackhorn, I see many other people that have excellent accuracy or at least huntable accuracy out of 44 cal bullets and the green sabot, I have not tried other 44 Cal sabots. The best accuracy I had out of any of the rifles I've tried them in was the optima pistol and it would group on the inch and a half but not much better when I can get a 451-452 and a black harvester to shoot less than an inch and sometimes less than a half inch two in the same hole in one touching it is always help me just ignore that shelf of 44 cal bullets. I had a couple of barrels built to shoot 44 cal bullets smokeless one of the barrels I shoot 429 and 430 bullets in and it is excellent,, but that's not what the issue is ,the issue for me is trying to get 44 cals to group in 28 twist barrels. I just recently this week tried another series of 44 cal bullets in a 28 twist Brux the same results constant inch and a half to 2 in can't really get it to tighten up anymore than that. Am I the only one who struggles with getting 44 to shoot in a 50?
Both of my Whitelights shoot 1"groups at 100yds with the same bullets and sabots, I use 80grs (vol) of T7/FFF. Just shows you need to find out what works best in your gunI have never had any decent results with 44 bullets and the green sabots
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