Thread: Sabos?
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Old March 6, 2011, 10:26 PM   #9
James K
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I don't have an M1A1 tank (fuel costs, you know), but I fired a fair number of Remington Accelerators in both .30-30 and .30-'06 and never got the accuracy that the basic rifles were capable of with the original ammo. Accuracy wasn't bad, around 2-3 MOA IIRC, but nowhere near what I could get out of the original caliber rifles or out of a good varmint rifle like my .22-250.

The purpose of that ammunition was to allow owners of rifles chambered for those calibers to use them for varmint hunting, so the bullets were .22 caliber in the .30 sabots.

BTW, I pronounce it SAY-bot, but the word is French and I won't even attempt the original pronunciation. (Just FWIW, it means a wooden shoe like the Dutch once wore; in labor disputes when machines were first introduced, workers threw their shoes into the machines, wrecking them, from which rose the term "sabotage.")

Jim
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