I broke the ice! My first 20 gauge sabot slug reload.

[GilV 227]

I broke the ice! My first 20 gauge sabot slug reload. There is no stopping me now.

It is a new Fiocci hull, with a CCS sabot, a CCS nitro card a 10 mm waxed card, a 1/8" paper card, Blue Dot powder and a Hornady XTP 45 cal 250 gr bullet. Should shoot 1640 FPS out of my Savage 220. I hope it is accurate. Going to load up 9 more and see how they shoot before I load up any others.

Hopefully, finally free of high prices, politics and shortages!

Thanks for all the help.

[electric10162 2,902]

I hope it performs as good as it looks! 

[BillCarson 129]

looks good!

[CJ3a 542]

Well done 

[smittty 1,367]

Cool may I ask where you got your load information from or did you just work it up your self. Hope it works out good for you. I’m sure sooner or later you’ll get something working 

[MGHunter66 7,881]

11 minutes ago, smittty said:

Cool may I ask where you got your load information from or did you just work it up your self. Hope it works out good for you. I’m sure sooner or later you’ll get something working 

CCS provides load data with their sabots. You can’t per se’ work up a load with slugs, way to dangerous 

[GilV 227]

10 minutes ago, MGHunter66 said:

CCS provides load data with their sabots. You can’t per se’ work up a load with slugs, way to dangerous 

As MGHunter66 said. If you do work up a slug it would be best to send it to Precision Reloading before you attempt to shoot it. You send them 5 rounds and they test them for everything.

[RICK420 5]

looks good they should shoot

[GilV 227]

Thanks for everything Rick.

Gil

[Haskell_Hunter 6,639]

3 hours ago, GilV said:

Hopefully, finally free of high prices, politics and shortages!

You live in NJ.  Who are you trying to kid?   

[GilV 227]

At least for slugs I will be.

I have 3 kids and 6 grand kids. If it wasn't for that I would move to state that is still part of America. They are getting fewer and farther apart though.

[Bonefreak 4,507]

She sure is perrrty!!

Nice craftsmanship!!

make a million buck$ if you put all of the kids n grandkids to work in something like a Santa’s workshop!!

good luck at the range n keep us all posted of your results!!

[GilV 227]

That roll crimp shocked me. I ran about 3 used hulls through the crimper to set the depth on my drill press. Then roll crimped this sabot. That roll crimp is the result of the crimper at 1300 RPMs and Fiocci hull. Nobody was more surprised than me at the outcome! ha!

[MGHunter66 7,881]

2 hours ago, GilV said:

That roll crimp shocked me. I ran about 3 used hulls through the crimper to set the depth on my drill press. Then roll crimped this sabot. That roll crimp is the result of the crimper at 1300 RPMs and Fiocci hull. Nobody was more surprised than me at the outcome! ha!

They are an awesome tool that shocks you how professional they come out LOL if you periodically put a little oil on the roll crimpet with a Qtip and heat it up a bit on a spent shell before doing your loaded ammo they come out even better. I no longer even fold crimp field loads.... everything gets roll crimped