There's a guy selling the sabots to make accelerator rounds for any 30 cal rifle. You just stick in a .22 cal bullet into the sabot and away you go. He has load data too. I have a bid in on some just to play with. I wonder if just a primer would spit them down the barrel.

Type in "sabot accelerator" and it should get you to most of his auctions.

Kraky, several folks have sold these sabots. I've got a link somewhere to a company named Alabama Reloaders, I think, that has sold them for a long time. I understand there are big problems with using these, involving bullet tipping, rotational slippage in the sabot leading to understabilization, soft bullet cores causing bullet deformities and sometimes disintegration, etc. Remington didn't just stick a regular 22-250 bullet in a sabot and put it in a 30-06 case. But it might be fun to play with these things, anyway.

(I'm Ricochet on discussion boards all over the place, including on the old defunct Shooters. But somebody else has registered it over here already. Might've been me, but if so it was on an old E-mail address I can't access any more.)

I thought I heard that they (REM) stopped making them due to lower than expected accuracy, something about the sabot not being able to peel back the same way on every shot. Haven't thought about them in a long time, so I'm probably a little behind the curve on them.

I imagine law enforcement has/had a difficult time with a high power rifle shooting a projectile with no rifling grooves, so they might have had an influence on their success.

But it would be fun to try some Barnes solids, just to see what happens.

lorenzo

Hi Krary alabama ammo has the sabbots $6 for 100 plus $1 for the loading data . I bought them a while back they do work but are not so accurate at 100 yrds in my gun well i can put them all in a pie tin . guess about 6 to 8 in . this gun shoots 3/4" groups with the 150 gr rem core locks . as for loading them you need to seat the bullet in the sabbot . i found this by reading some reloading info on the net. you can purchase a tool to seat the bullets into the sabbot or make one . use a piece of wood and drill a hole into it just smaller than the 22 bullet and use itto push the bullet into the sabbot so it will be seated well. oh yea they also say your barrel needs to be squeeky clean . hope this helps you will have fun . Bob

I have never used them in an '06. I have shot them from a 30-30. And they shot really well from my Model 94. Remington still catalogs the 30-06 Accelerators so there goes that response. Also E A Brown www.eabrown.com sells the sabots and has load data as well as seater dies that curtail the seating problems that lead to poorer accuracy. I say try them the sabots and bullets can be had cheap, and you have nothing to lose and everything to gain by trying them yourself and not being like the rest who can say "I have heard blah, blah blah" Sean

Thanks guys--I got outbid (too cheap i guess). Didn't know you had to do a little something special to seat them. Probably just as cheap to watch the sales and get some cheap regular bullets. I was actually thinking it could be fun (if they would shoot with just a primer) to set a target in the back yard and plink from my garage with my '06. My own in town shooting range!! I'll watch the feedback but then again maybe look at the websites you guys posted--thanks again.