Remington 30-06 Accelerator

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Remington 30-06 Accelerator, 55 gr. soft point


I would like to know if anyone has ever shot this ammunition? And if so what kind of results have you had.

I am planning on shooting varmints this season and was intending on using this ammunition for that purpose. I am considering loading 110 gr. V-max 30 caliber bullets also; but they are a little pricey.

I realize that a 30 caliber weapon is a little excessive for varmints, but that is what I own, and I can't see putting out $500 or $600 for a new varmint rifle.

If anyone has any suggestions on loads for varmints in a 30 caliber rifle I would greatly appreciate it.

Thank you,
Andy
 
I have tried the accelerators in my 30-06. They seemed to shoot accuratatly enough but you have to clean the plastic from the sabots out after a few shots. If you aren't shooting a lot at a time they work ok. If you are shooting under 300 yards I would recomend the 110 gr. Hornady Spire Points. They are very accurate in my rifle and VERY, VERY destructive. They also are pretty cheap compared to the V-Max.
 
I'd suggest some military surplus FMJ. It'll work just the same and be way cheaper.
 
What about Speer 125's?

I bought a bunch of V-max when they were cheap and they are devestating on the squirrels out of my .308. Another alternative is the Speer 125 gr. TNT HP. The slightly heavier 125 actually performs better out of our bigger caliber rifles at long range. I bought a 500 pack of the 125's for $60 from Midway USA a while back.

I can tell you both bullets work great. I shot a squirrel the other day at 325 yards using the V-max. What fun! Both of these bullets work equally as well against Coyotes as well.
 
I have used the Accellerators out of my .308, with acceptable results, but they are WAY expensive. You can get the plastic sobots mail order pretty inexpensively and load up .224 Vmax bullets. Now we're having fun! Vmax at 2,700 fps are pretty good ... add 1,500 fps and you basically have a remotely deployable atomizer :eek: Here is one source, but I didn't get mine here ... the problem is that I don't know exactly where I ordered them.

https://www.eabco.com/reload02.html

Since you already reload, I think that THIS is the way to convert your -06 into a .220 swift!

Be safe,
Saands
 
saands:

Accelerators in 308? Isn't Saboted 308 illegal?

I know that it's physically possible to load the plastic sabots. . . . but does Remington MAKE 308 Accelerators (tm) or just 30.06? Only 30.06 accelerators are on their website.


Battler.
 
1. I know of no law outlawing sabot .308 win. Possibly a local law somewhere.

2. AFAIK Remington only makes/made accelorators in 30-30 win and .30-06 springfield.

3. Cheap milsurplus ammo or pulled bullets will kill them deader than dead for far less money. How much deader do you want them?
 
I haven't purchased .308 Accelerators in quite a number of years, but I haven't looked either. There used to be a shop that would give you 50% off a purchase once a year (coupon book kind of thing) and I always bought a box. I have never heard of any laws that prohibited a type of bullet in just one particular caliber, though. That sounds a little odd ... but I guess I had better do a DOJ search, as ignorance is not a good defense.

The other nice thing is the 55gr loads don't kick much.

Saands
 
Saands, I came across some .308 acceleraters at a gun show last week I would assume they are perfectly legal as well.
 
The reason for not using military surplus ammo or anything else of a FMJ nature is so that the bullet strikes and stops or fragments , thus not passing through and hitting something behind the target.
;)
 
A person should not be shooting a 30-06 regardless of the bullet in it without a good backstop... or even a .22LR for that matter.
 
kilgorll,
How do you get the varmints you are shooting at to stand in front of a "good backstop" while you shoot them? I am curious to find out, even though my club doesn't allow hunting on the premises.
Military surplus will indeed kill pretty much any kind of varmint, but doesn't offer the fragmentation of a ballistic tip like the Hornady. Whether you hit um or not, the ballistic tip is not going any further than the first thing it hits, the military stuff is another story. You could completely penetrate the first varmint, and hit another (or something else) a mile away on the ricochet.
 
You have a good point.

However, I still don't believe that one should be touching off a 30-06 without a good backstop regardless of the bullet loaded in it. A good backstop could be a thicket of trees that you know no one should be in and nothing is behind, a long expanse of open desert, basically anything to stop the bullet from hurting something it wasn't intended to. A varmint bullet will not go as far after hitting a varmint, true. What about misses?
 
Remember the "armor piercing bullet" ban? That covered anything with steel in its core, of saboted rounds - for handguns.

Found this out on their web site - although it is hard to navigate and hard to find any specific laws on it.

The 308 is defined by ATF as a handgun round. (Yeah, yeah, I know).

Battler.
 
...as far as misses, a ballistic tip bullet should fragment the same whether it hits the varmint, the ground next to him, or a tree branch or something. It takes almost nothing to cause them to fragment. I tried a Hornady 55gr. V-Max on a tomato out of my AR, and it completely destroyed the tomato. The only thing let was ketchup with tiny fragments of bullet in it.
 
Accelerators in 308? Isn't Saboted 308 illegal?

I know that it's physically possible to load the plastic sabots. . . . but does Remington MAKE 308 Accelerators (tm) or just 30.06? Only 30.06 accelerators are on their website.
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Nope. That's .308 armor piercing you're thinking about. Load a .30cal M2 blacktip in a .308=illegal. Load the same bullet in a 30/06=legal. Who knows why. Stupid law. Remington made .308 accelerators (and 30/30 too), but discontinued them because most shooters experienced lousy accuracy.
 
Poodleshooter, the Contender or some such was chambered for a .308. BATF got their shorts in a bind over it and added steel-core bullets in .308 cartridges to their no-no list.

Well, maybe not Contender. At any rate, it was a limited-production critter; few in use...

The usual case of a non-solution for anything, looking desperately for a problem.

Art
 
art
I believe it was the SSP (single-shot pistol) that caused the big hulla-balloo with big brother and the ban was the result. the contender came around with the 308 very soon after the SSP
 
At any rate, it was a limited-production critter; few in use...
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Tell me about it. That's why we lost 7.62x39 Chinese and E. German steel core too. Some idiot company came out with an BATF test model AR-15 based "Patriot" pistol in 7.62x39-POOF, no more steel core.
I think the .308 culprit was probably the Magnum Research Lone Eagle or the SSP, as the Contender is too small and the Encore hadn't come out.
I suppose it's a good thing that the idiot newspeople and the guys who hand down ignorant policy to the ATF haven't grasped the fact that all you have to do is make the bullet faster and it will pierce "armor". Otherwise, we'd all be shooting only .45auto.
 
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