I've been waiting for the UPS truck like it's Christmas! My thumbhole stock, ultimate range rod, scope rings and bases, and easy-load boat-tail sabots (blue) finally came!
I was having lots of trouble loading the bloodlines and Barnes TMZ bullets with yellow sabots, even with my TC power rod. I resorted to bore butter (which makes the bullets keyhole) to make them load. The ultimate range rod puts them down just fine. I'm still curious to see how the blue sabots work with the barnes TMZs. They do load nice and easy, even with a regular ram rod.
Yes I know I can't hunt with the scope. I just wanna use it to reduce user error at the range to decide my favorite load. I can't wait!!