RSS Sabot Slugs
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- This video provides some of my experiences reloading the ballistic products RSS sabots using 350 grain Sierra jacketed hollow points also some of my experience using cast 50 caliber bullets with the same sabots are discussed.
Thanks for making the video. Been trying to find videos on here dealing with someone reloading Sabots with 50 cal pistol bullets. Great job! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for the feedback Jason. Let me know if there are any other loads you may be interested in. I’m always looking for new ideas for videos.
I just discovered these sabots and ordered some. I see a 3" Fiochi magnum hull and some longshot in their future.
Great job on this video and thanks for sharing! I grew up in Ohio and have hunted it on occasion but I live in Connecticut and we're primarily a shotgun state (public land, although rifles can be permitted on private land with ten or more acres). I've had great success loading 12 GA with BPI Thug Slugs & DGS (Dangerous Game Slugs),, but have not used these loads to hunt deer because I have a SAVAGE 220 fully rifled barrel now in 20 GA. I've been trying to replicate the Remington ACCU-TIP (now nearly $5 per shell) using Fiocchi primed cases, sabot hulls from a couple of other sources but I prefer roll crimping and my last attempt I created a small bulge in the case and it won't chamber. That said I've had great accuracy using both NOSLER 300 grain and some Hornady bullets but I'm on a mission to load solid copper to recreate the now discontinued Remington Copper Soliids. So my goal is to successfully load BARNES copper solids as I want to move away from lead with deer. Good luck, and I've subscribed to your channel, so check mine out.
Did you ever have a chance to get out on the range with these loads?? I’d love to see some of the accuracy results you were able to achieve. Seems like without going lead full-bore, this system is the only real alternative to pricey factory sabot rounds.
Well they make them for 20g
Tim, did you chronograph your loads? I want like to know your FPS. I am doing a similar project with my 20 gauge.
Hey a cheap hack to help reform hull mouth that I use. I take a cheap 3/4” harbor freight step bit, and wrap a layer or two of metal foil duct tape around it smoothly, just enough to cover the sharp edge and give a smidge more diameter. I then use that in a drill like a hull conditioner. Put it in the hull opening and run the drill until it heats up enough to open up the mouth. Works like a champ, and will almost eliminate the fold crimp completely. You then can roll crimp those fold crimped hulls or just make it easier to insert wads.
Just start slow until you get the feel of it.
Works great for me!
Curious how a .50 BMG boat taii round would do. That'd be about 1 3/4 ounce, about the same as shooting a .69 Minie ball round. The precision brass hulls from RMC should work well with that combination. :)
Also helps to run it in reverse, so the sharp edge isn’t going in the cutting direction.
You pronounced it wrong too. "SA boo", rhymes with "ha hoo". The stress is on the first syllable.
When you load them yourself, how much do you estimate the per unit cost to be?
Frank, sorry for the delayed response. You’d think after taking 2 years of French I’d remember how to pronounce it correctly, but the Americanized pronunciation and habits die hard. Lol
I’m loading them for about $1.80 a piece, assuming I’m reusing a hull.
@@timgreis4885 Thanks. Which presses do you recommend? Idk if I'll ever reload 3.5" but my Benelli has a 3.5" chamber.
@@franka7691 I’m guessing you would be loading very quantities of 3.5”. If I were you, I’d consider buying new primed hulls, hand weighing charges, and hand pressing in your wad and sabot, then buying a roll crimper. If you wanted to reload hulls you’d need something that would deprime and uniform the brass head, so check out Ballistic Products for tools to meet those specific tasks.
Great video... what kind of powder are you using? Where can you find the best published load data?
If you contact Ballistic Products technical support, they can send you a loading data sheet which contains numerous powder and wad combinations. The powder recommendations will vary between faster and slower burning propellants depending on the weight of projectile selected. Faster propellants like Clays for lighter projectiles (350gr) and slower for heavier (500gr) like Longshot. Ballisticproducts.com
good video thanks for the info
Hi there. My question is simple. Why use sabot? The bullet can not touch the rifling straight?
Thanks for the video
There are several advantages to sabots, which include being able to use a more aerodynamic projectile at a higher velocity than a standard bore diameter slug. This results in a flatter trajectory and increased effective range. It also allows you to select from any number of bullets, which can have better terminal performance depending on the application. I didn’t understand your second question, but would be glad to try and answer it if you can rephrase it in a way I can better understand. Thanks for watching.
@timgreis4885 i understand the small diameter bullet inside the sabot. I just trying to see if a solid machined copper bullet can be shot through a rifled shotgun barrel, like all other bullets.
@@marcelonetto3838the wad is needed to provide a gas check and also control pressure. I would strongly advise against trying to develop a slug load that doesn’t utilize a wad. Unlike metallic cartridge reloading, shotgun chamber pressure limits are extremely low, so pressure spikes created when a slug would emerge from the hull and begin to engrave a rifled slug bore would likely result in a dangerous situation. There are other elements of internal ballistics that can also cause pressure to spike, for example a choke tube at the end of a smooth bore shotgun barrel. For these reasons, follow published loads! Thanks for the question.
@timgreis4885 thanks for answering my question.