possible banned ammo

[Hawgdawg]

A friend of mine has some boxes of Accelerator ammo in 3 0t 6. Doe's anyone know if they were banned. And do they still sell them. Thanks

[Woodchuck]

They quit making it some years ago, that said if he doesnt want it, I will buy it

[BULLBLASTER]

you can still buy the sabots and handload your own... my dad has been doing it with .308 and 30.06 as long as I can remember.

[h2ofowlr]

I don't believe they were banned.  Probably quit making them due to demand and a more difficult process with the use of automation.  You have to weigh the cost to profit scenario.  Used to use them on varmints all the time.

[Hawgdawg]

Urban legion claims they took it off the market because of the plastic wad, sabot would allow it to leave the weapon with out making riffling on the bullet. Perfect round for a bad guy.  Anyone have input on that thought?

[Woodchuck]

I have heard the same thing, not sure if 100% true or not.

[snowpack]

I think it came off the market because of demand.  Varmint guys tend to like rifles that are really accurate.  Accelerator in my experience wasn't quite good enough for things like yotes and birds.  I just used a .223 or a .22-250 instead.

[Special T]

I did a custome build up with my guns smith to reload your own cannot find the actual report I did here but here is a link to one of the discussions

http://hunting-washington.com/smf/index.php/topic,76048.msg929658.html#msg929658

In short they don't work well because the rife twist and bullet weight don't match up you MAY beable to use a heavy 22 cal bullet but then you will slow the bullet down so you won't see the gains you are looking for.

[AWS]

You might want to take a look at this site, they make custom sabots for rifle reloading.

http://www.jdcomponents.com/index.html

[ndcasla]

I've been shooting sabot rounds from my 30 cal. rifles for some time.
I get the sabots from E. Arthur Brown, they are pretty cheap.
Out of a 30-06 you can push a 55 gr .224 flat base hollow point bullet about 4200 to 4600fps.
A couple of things, you have to get your rifle bore in an as new condition to have any accuracy, and you have to run a brush through the barrel after about 5-8 shots because the group really opens up. Plastic lay down.
Out of a 300 Win Mag you can push a bullet over 5000fps. They load real easy, use your standard dies, no special stuff needed. 

[FC]

Out of a 300 Win Mag you can push a bullet over 5000fps.

I bet those are easy on fur! 

[Hawgdawg]

Thanks for all the impute but still no answer to my question. And if the are band he needs to know how to get rid of them with out a major fed. goat you know what!

[Bofire]

There is no "ban" they just were not accurate, did not sell, so are not made.
Carl

[BiggLuke]

I think it came off the market because of demand.  Varmint guys tend to like rifles that are really accurate.  Accelerator in my experience wasn't quite good enough for things like yotes and birds.  I just used a .223 or a .22-250 instead.

I found in my own experience that these rounds were crap for accuracy.
seriously got 6-8" groups at 100yards.
I bet people stopped buying them for this reason alone.

[yorketransport]

There is no "ban" they just were not accurate, did not sell, so are not made.
Carl

If there was any concern about the bullets not having rifling on them, they would also ban sabot shotgun rounds and probably muzzle loader sabots as well.

Anrew