Question...........................

[Bottom Hunter]

For some reason, I decided to change from round balls to sabots..........I got a great deal on a bucket load of 50 cal. Hornady sabots.....250 gr.

Yesterday, I shot a few of them for the first time.........I was under the impression that no lubrication was needed, but the sabots were terribly hard to get started in the barrel. After I BEAT them down about a inch or two, then they went in just fine......but, it took getting a hammer and beating the end of the bullet starter to get them started.....

Do any of you use a lube when shooting sabots and are these bullets always that hard to load...?
Would lubing the end of the barrel do or should I lube the entire sabot....?

Thanks

BH

 

[megalomaniac]

Crazy sounding, but I lick the sabot at the levels of the petals (not around the base) just before loading. They go in like butter when before I just about couldn't get them to seat at all.

 

[Spike]

Try a dif size sabbot dia.

 

[AlabamaSwamper]

bore butter is the remedy.

 

[Bottom Hunter]

Thanks...............

BH