Sabot bullets with muzzle brake

I've sent almost 2,000 rounds through a radial brake with sabots.

I have done it on a rebarreled Ruger No. 1 with a radial brake. In this case it actually worked OK but when I have time I will consider sabotless. I have another .45 with a radial brake but it is removable so I do that if I want to shoot with sabots.

It all depends on how the brake is cut on the inside. If it is a smooth bore of the same diameter and small exhaust ports you might get by shooting them through the brake. If the brake has a series of counter bores or just one deep counter bore then you will most likely blow the brake off the end of your barre. If you are wanting to shoot these 40 caliber bullets from this gun, you could remove your brake and put on a thread protector and shoot them all day.

Yes, I have! And posted results either here or on Doug's. Its been some time. My Harrell's radial brake was bored out to .485". What I found was the accuracy was decent...........but not as good as sabot less. I think I shot the 200 gr. .40 SST's vs. the 200 gr. .452 XTP's. This was done when I was transitioning from sabots to sabot less with a .45 cal. Brux barrel. Someone had told me that I needed to open up the brake a little more if I wanted to shoot sabots. I would have to do a lot of looking to find my results but accuracy was definitely deer good to probably 200 yards..........this is just off the top of my head!.............Maybe groups around 1.5" at 100 yards vs. under an inch sabot less. Long before we started getting into bench rest accuracy!

Ultimate Firearms Inc., BP Xpress 50cal., 300gr Hornady SST, with 3-T7M pellets..........  All shot through a radial brake using sabots (H5045LB).
Full rest and rear bag used.








My very first ever attempt at 500yds.  Target was witnessed and signed......  Identical load as above, shot through a brake using sabots.
Front rest and rear bag used.







After just over a year of not shooting for medical reasons, I remounted the scope and was able to send a few rounds to re-zero it at 100yds.  An explanation is due for this target.  First 3 rounds, upper right, then while making scope adjustments, the dog suddenly showed up and broke my concentration and I over adjusted.  I decided to just walk it to zero and set the zero stop.

This target was shot with 3-50/50 pellets, 300gr Hornady SST, Harvester H5045LB sabot through the radial brake.
Front rest and rear bag used.

Both long range targets were shot with a Leupold VX6 3-18x50, which wouldn't hold up to the rifle's recoil and after it was repaired twice, Leupold purchased the scope back.  It now has a Nightforce NXS 5.5-22x50, which is what the bottom target was shot with at 100yds.

Due to a bad knee injury and surgery, along with being laid up for over a year, I've been unable to shoot the Nightforce at the club's range at distance.  Spring time here makes it impossible to get on the club's 600yd range until the frost is gone and the road dries.

Doug seen the rifle shoot a couple years back at a Friendship match, where it was one of only three rifles that knocked down all steel targets at 200m and 300m.  That again was with the Leupold.

Of course my rifle is a .50, but the brake is bored at .510"

Thank you and yes sir, I'm sending them at 2,280fps.  If I gas cut another BP, there's no doubt in my mind I'll ask Hank to re-barrel it and fix that issue for good.  I've worked really hard, much harder than I should ever have to, to get this rifle shooting well.  When the last BP was installed, I had the barrel set back so there wasn't enough head space.  Then trimmed all my brass to 1.190" and set a reamer to make the brass to fit tight when closing the bolt.  I don't intend to manually go through that process again.