Airforce Anyone tried a .458 copper round in a .50 sabot in the .50 texan?

[elittle1234]

So I have some .458 250 grain lehigh defense copper slugs. I have .50 sabots. The sabot with the slug in it measures out .510 or damn close. Anyone try this combo before?
I got some .451 lehigh stuff also and it's a little too small, but I have .457 lead that works great in these sabots. I'm wondering if the extra .001 matters or if copper will act very different?
Anyone do this before?

 

[Airgun-hobbyist]

Some videos have shown tht a saboted round is fairly accurate. All you can do is try. .001" is pretty small. There's likely that much variance in thickness on the petals on the plastic sabot. Another thing to do to take up space is annealing the copper. Annealing copper softens it some and expands it as well.

 

[WIdeerhunter90]

I am thinking of trying something similar in my .510 LSS. What were your results?

 

[RM.510bigbore]

Up north air gunner did a few videos on Sabots and Lehigh defense slugs. They shoot ok at 50 yards..Accuracy not as good.as full.bore slugs.. Was my take...

 

[elittle1234]

I've had good results at distances up to 20 yards but that isn't much help to to I don't think. If the round was kind of lose in the barrel I tried a thin mylar wrap around the slug inside the sabot, that got it to grab tighter in the barrel.
I've used .458 socom rounds in 50 cal sabot, they fit way better than the 45 acp I tried, but I've never tried at any real distance. The .458 extreme defense worked very well at 20yd.

 

[The Archer]

Ya... What they said! Been there done that. I tried many different combinations, including .44 copper HP and nothing yielded reliable accuracy. Accuracy will be poor, but you'll get one good flyer on occasion that makes you think it's possible.