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Hi All!
I'm curious. For those of you who have had a ML that had a barrel so tight that most sabots loaded only with great effort; have you measured your land to land bore at the muzzle? --- If so, how small did your bore measure?
I have a CVA Wolf with a bore measurement of 0.499". This is so tight that .44 cal bullets with the green Harvester Crush-rib sabots is still too tight.
For .45 cal bullets: Harvester Crush-ribs didn't help enough. MMP's HPH-24 sabots were a little better. MMP's 3-petal EZ sabots helped the best. I can actually use the Hornady 250gr SST bullet w/ the 3-petal, and that loads with firm but managable pressure with a fouled barrel. I run a spit patch between each shot.
For saboted loads I maybe limitted to tha shorter ~250gr and or pointy bullets, because I tried HDY 300gr XTPs w/ the 3- petal sabot and that was too tight. More bearing surface?
So--- Who has measured their tight ML barrel??
Thanks! James
I'm curious. For those of you who have had a ML that had a barrel so tight that most sabots loaded only with great effort; have you measured your land to land bore at the muzzle? --- If so, how small did your bore measure?
I have a CVA Wolf with a bore measurement of 0.499". This is so tight that .44 cal bullets with the green Harvester Crush-rib sabots is still too tight.
For .45 cal bullets: Harvester Crush-ribs didn't help enough. MMP's HPH-24 sabots were a little better. MMP's 3-petal EZ sabots helped the best. I can actually use the Hornady 250gr SST bullet w/ the 3-petal, and that loads with firm but managable pressure with a fouled barrel. I run a spit patch between each shot.
For saboted loads I maybe limitted to tha shorter ~250gr and or pointy bullets, because I tried HDY 300gr XTPs w/ the 3- petal sabot and that was too tight. More bearing surface?
So--- Who has measured their tight ML barrel??
Thanks! James