Accelerator Sabot help....
#11
Spike
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I have seen one article on them before and the accuracy was not better than an inch and a half at 100 yards, I would try getting a rifle made for such a bullet without a sabot. If you are really wanting to hit the thousand yard mark, get a better cartridge with a bullet of a very high b.c.
#12
Nontypical Buck
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From: WY
But they weren't exactly cheap on a high school kid's after-school wages. Nevertheless, we'd carry a couple of them in a pocket during deer season to deal with an odd coyote here or there, not to mention the opportunity to fill a turkey tag without a 150-grain softpoint vaporizing it.
I haven't worked any loads up yet, but I don't have any expectations other than some day at least replicating the performance of the old factory loads.
Just something different to experiment with.
#14
Nontypical Buck
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Just buy a .223 or 22-250 and be done with it or just load the 308 light and enjoy that.
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Typical Buck
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BTW: The US military developed an armor penetrating saboted round in 7.62mm caliber. The round did not work well when fired from machine guns. The sabots would sometimes break up and cause the penetrator to puncture the side of the gun barrel.
http://www.gunauction.com/search/dis...temnum=8697631
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/...cts/blslap.htm
http://www.gunauction.com/search/dis...temnum=8697631
http://usmilitary.about.com/library/...cts/blslap.htm
The 7.62mm effort was not successful in the M60 and caused catastrophic barrel failures due to in-bore break-up of the sabot and the penetrator puncturing the side of the barrel. Also, its increase in penetration was not on the same order of magnitude as the .50 caliber SLAP's.
Last edited by falcon; 06-27-2012 at 11:50 AM.



