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Why is the 55 grain sabot loaded 30-06 Accel. muzzle velocity so low at only 4080fps. is it because they do not pack enough powder in them as for usual loadings?I think 5000 or 6000fps. should be feasable!
 
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Simply diminishing returns. Once you get to a point, adding more powder does very little to increase velocity, just more blast and recoil. The bullet-to-powder ratio is just so high that it becomes unreasonably overbore. An example from Saeed's data here is the .223 vs .22-250 vs .22-243 vs .22-6mm. Adding a few grains of powder when moving up from .223 to .22-250 gives sizable gains along the lines of 400 fps. Adding even more powder going up to the .22-243 gives only 150-250 fps more velocity. Adding even MORE powder going up to the .22-6mm gives almost no gain. That and the fact that the round was probably test-fired from a 24" barrel? Who knows, maybe in a 30" barrel it could pick up a few hundred fps?
 
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