The price of sabot loads is ridiculous. It's a slug case with a plastic sabot and a bullet. Anything over 10 to 15 bucks for a five pack is just greed. I had to find nontoxic 20 guage loads for my son this year. What a pain.

And the price of slugs is why I shot my deer with muzzleloaders back when we were slug gun only . And they were a lot cheaper back them also. But I like to shoot my deer guns a lot so it got expensive also I was young and broke back then.

For the trouble, changing avaliable, ect you may decide to give the 350blegand a serious look with some of the 170g + loads . I'm exceedingly happy with the internal dame and results from the 5 deer my 11 year old shot with winchester 150gr xp. But with 2 hard quartering shots we did get pass through shots. But to be fair my 250gr xtp out of my muzzleloader would not have passed through with those shots either. And both of them droped with massive internal damage so no complaints here from me. I wish they would shoot well out of my 13 year olds but they dont so he has 170gr Hornady sp. Have yet to shoot anything with them though.