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I was at the range today shooting my .45 Accura with BH209 and my 346grn Gould bullets. And as is my way, i forgot to put the bag of wool wads in my range bag. I had 6 in my hunting backpack and i used those while i tried to figure out an alternative. First i went thru the brass buckets til i found a couple of .50 shells and thought I'll punch some out of cardboard or sommething. Not that easy. Shells, as it turns out, aren't very sharp. Not sharp enough to cut thru a pieces of thin cardboard anyway. But while digging thru my bin of hunting gear that lives in the back seat of my car from Oct 1 thru Jan 1, i found a box of SST's and tan sabots. Also found my pocket knife with the changeable blades, razor sharp thankfully. I thought i can cut these petals off and makes some sub bases. I had heard of some one else trying it. I knew that MMP makes some. I wasn't going home just over missing wads and i would try shooting without wads if it came to that. So i pulled out 24 sabots and trimmed off all the petals and tried to shave them as flat as i could. I loaded up just like always and shot at 50 yards. They made a pretty good difference in my group. I went from 1.5" to under an inch. 2.5 inches high. I shot 6 and then moved to 100 yards. First i shot 3 of the 200grn SST''s in sabots and. They hit about 6-8" high and about a 3-4"-ish group. Then i switched back to the Goulds and bases and I was able to put 5 of the next 6 touching. First one out of a cool barrel always shoots low and right a lil. Im very happy with the results but now i have to either cut down a bunch of sabots or find someone already making them. I saw the ones that snap onto MMP sabots but for my bullets they gotta be flat. I have several hundred sabots leftover from bullets I've bought over the years so I can make a bunch. Has anyone else had luck doing this? Anyone know where to find these already made in .45?