As money is tight and the P-dogs are popping up, I bought some of E. A Browns 30 cal sabots for shooting .224 varmint bullets from my 30.06 AI. (Cheaper than building my dream 22-250, for now.) They're not grouping well. I followed Brown's recommendation about starting with a very clean bore and loaded moderate charges of 3031 per his data. They're clocking over 4100 fps but groups are unreliable--around 2 inches with occasional extreme fliers. I've had to heavily chamfer the inside of the neck to seat them without removing a ton of material from the sabot but I suspect that its a concentricity seating problem. I'm just using my .06 AI Redding die to seat. So...has anyone had good luck with this system? How deep did you seat the sabot (I wish I had some of the old factory loaded rounds to look at.) Are there other variables I'm missing? I sure appreciate the input.

You are not going to get varmint accuracy using sabots...period...

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I agree, you will get the velocity and flat-trgectory, but not anywhere the accuracy that you will need to hit those small critters.

Hi Snowcat,
tried the 308 winchester accelerator about 15 years ago the grouping was crap in whatever rifle we tried them in!
so left them alone.

Griff

Snowcat:: DITTO ALL THE ABOVE. Sabots work well in tank ammo, but not in shoulder rifles!!