Any experience with the Hornady new SST Sabots (Low Drag)

[gamblerken]

The bullets are the same as the old version SST but the sabot is shorter and still has three paddles. It is just a little shorter than the Harverster sabot and it comes in Red.
Wondering if the performance will be the same as the old version of the SST?

 

[Okie Hog]

My first 250 grain SSt/Shockwave bullets came with and hard plastic tips and red four petal sabots. The last ones i bought came with black four petal sabots and soft plastic tips. They shoot to the same point of impact in my Encore. I also have the three petal Hornady low drag sabots.

I shoot Goex Pinnacle in my guns. Pinnacle likes a tight fitting sabot. My Encore is capable of 1" groups with 250 grain SST in the tight fitting red and the black sabots. The low drag sabots make 2-3" groups. The gun does not like the crush rib sabots at all, they made 6-8" groups with my gun.

 

[marshall9779]

I couldn't get anything better than a 4" group at 100yds with the 250gr. I can get 1" groups with 200gr SW.

 

[jascoesens]

Gamblerken,

What's the real question? Terminal performance, ease of loading or accuracy?

In my Wolf (with a tight barrel), they loaded one-hand snug and shot well (small groups out to 150 yards. Killed only one deer with it at 60 yards. It was a double lung pass-through shot. DRT. Exit hole same as entrance. Used 120gr T7. Go figure.