Sabots On Centrefire Cartridges -- Anyone Try Them?

[.223Savage]

A recent edition of the Shotgun News had an ad from a US supplier offering plastic sabots to shoot say .223 bullets from a .308 rifle at 4000fps.

More out of curiosity than anything else I wonder if anyone here has tried "saboted" rounds and what your experience was. My unscientific suspicion is that accuracy would suffer but I have no real world data to back this up.

 

[shortandlong]

I can't offer much info but i know that this is nothing new .......it was in a guns digest my uncle had .......be damned if i remember the year though

 

[Big JD-From the hills]

Anything I have read on them is that accuracy is crap. I don't understand peoples need for that kind of speed?

 

[brnolvr]

I have tried the Remington one's called the "Accelerator"
in 30-30 and 30-06 both rounds you were lucky to get all your shots to hit a 14X14 inch paper target at 100 yards.

Both used a sabot with a 55gr spitzer bullet.

 

[hs4570]

Tried it in the 1980's in 30/30..308..30/06.....biggest waste of money to get 7-8 inch groups /100 yds at best!!

 

[carbonrod]

ditto. bought some cheap sabots, and tried to load some up, but out of my 308 bolt guns they just didn't have the accuracy.

 

[superd222]

I think plastic fouling was an issue with these too

 

[curtmg]

What kind of speed are we talking about? .308, with a 55 gr projectile

 

[Dirtdigger]

Tried them. They pattern terrible.

 

[Scott_N]

ditto yet again... I tried the Accelerators in my 30-06 and the accuracy was terrible. I think they rated them @ 4000 fps with a 55 gr bullet.

 

[jennis]

I have to echo the sentiments of 'Scott N' I remember when remington unleashed the 'messiah' in the form of the 55 gr sabot / 30-06 in the late 80's ( + - ) they were dismal to say the least, made my mini 14 look match grade 5-7 " groups @ 100 meters

 

[MiG25]

i recall reading an article in "canadian shooting" or some such magazine about using sabots in a ruger #1 458 winchester. the article was entitled something like "4000 fps in a 458 winchester".

 

[Scott_N]

The Accelerators were interesting looking if nothing else:

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They did provide me with one of the most spectacular gopher kills I've witnessed though.

 

[Eagleye]

While most rifles were notoriously inaccurate with the Accelerators, the odd rifle did shoot well with them. I recall a buddy of mine shooting them out of his old P-H 30-06, and they were grouping better than most of his hunting loads, right around 1¼" at 100 yards. Not spectacular, but not bad. Waste of money though, IMHO, since I much prefer a 220 Swift for shooting 55 grain .224 projectiles accurately. Regards, Eagleye.

 

[jennis]

IIRC they had the 'sabot' on CSI Miami , ( one of 5 episodes I have watched ) this guy was shooting a 308 from hundreds of meters using sabots.......Okie Dokie