Sabots for rifle cartridtes

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Has anyone ever used sabots in their rifles? In searching reloading sites, I happened across the following site:

w ww.reloadammo.com

Near the bottom there is link to sabots and it shows a sabot for a .308 rifle that will allow use of a .22 bullet.
This strikes me as being a rather inaccurate bullet. Anyone know for sure?
 
Remington used to have the Accelerator line in 30-30, 308, and 30-06.

The US military also used to have SLAP Saboted Light Armoured Penetrator rounds in both 7.62x51 and 50 BMG. They still use the 50BMG but not the 7.62 anymore.
 
I think I still have maybe 1/2 dozen of the Remmy Sabots around.

They were supposed to allow you to use your deer rifle for varmints, but...

They make water jugs blow up real good! If you hit them....IIRC the ones I had shot about 8 inches off the point of aim at 100 yards, when sighted in with the normal ammo. They were too expensive to shoot enough to be worth sighting in with them. Even then, (20plus years ago) there were better picks for bullets for varminting with a 30 cal rifle, like 110 grain spire points, so they did not sell very well.

There were one or two outfits that sold the sabots bare, or at least they advertised them, but mainly, if you wanted them, you were stuck making them on a lathe. Not the greatest way to get accuracy.

IIRC there was an article in Guns and Ammo that was titled "4000 fps from a 458 Win Mag" or something similar, where the author made sabots and loaded up some very fast, not very accurate ammo.

<shrug> Not much point, IMO.

The marketplace pretty much sorted that out.

Cheers
Trev
 
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