Savage favorite deer load

[Paul Burns]

What is your deer load for the Savage Smokeless M/L.
I was looking thru the post and find very little information.
I lost the sheet of paper where I kept my info on loading.
Also info on sabots and cushioning of sabots.
Thanks

 

[Hillbilly Hunter]

I have the following:

Savage ML-II SS
Leupold VX-III 3.5-10x40mm

MMP Sabots
CCI primers
Hornady 250 grain XTP
44 grains of AA5744

sob MOA at 100 yards

 

[RED BEARD]

Paul,
Dougs savage ML board and Randy Wakeman has lots of load info. on their websites.

 

[Kevin B.]

Hornady HP (.458) 300 grain w/ Harvester sabot
59.5 grains VV n120 Federal 209 primer

 

[Polecat]

43 grs of VV-N110
MMP HP Sabot
240 gr Hornady XTP
Federal 209 primer

 

[kry226]

Here's my good enough load. Still trying to find time to tweak:

40 gr VV N110
250 gr Hornady SST
MMP black Sabot

Wakeman recommends 37 gr of N110 as his pet load in the above bullet/sabot combo. I would like to try that. Low recoil and good deer devastation. I just need some quality range time.