.22 bullets in .308 sabots

[Frank in the Laurels]

...God I remember BigGreen I think trying this back in the 70's with a variety of cartridges..didn't last long, no one came to the party if my old memory is correct..

 

[Gary in MD]

Yea, there is a reason why it didn't stick around.
Just buy yourself a good 22-250 and enjoy

 

[19elkhunter51]

When I was a lot younger I couldn't afford a dedicated varmint rifle. The Remington sabot 22/30-06 had rocket like velocity and was cheaper than a new rifle. Paid the blood money for a box of the fancy rocket bullets and went to the range. Wasn't looking for MOA at two thousand yards, just something out to maybe three hundred. Well I wasted a couple of days trying to get them on paper. Best I could do at a hundred was minute of foot. Not only did they not shoot, the made a gooey, sticky mess of my barrel. Didn't try again and started saving for a dedicated varmint rifle.

 

[Critter Picker]

I still remember the Remington "accelerator " in 30-06 and .308. Was kind of a flash in the pan. I always thought the accuracy would be questionable, bt it would be untraceable for forensics.

 

[hrhunter]

I still have a box of Accelerators in 308 from the 80's. I couldn't hit anything with them in my 788. It was a good idea but didn't work.

 

[Nimrodmar10]

I guess my question would be why? Why not just load a .308 110 gr. Varmint bullet

 

[19elkhunter51]

I did use a bunch of the 110's and the 125's. My problem was with performance and ricocheting bullets. Neither of the two "varmint" bullets were as frangible as a 55 grain 22 caliber bullet. Although I was always aware of my backstop I just didn't like the fact that once that bullet passed through an animal, I didn't know where the bullet would end up.