50 cal. Sabots

[stubshaft]

I had a thought (rarely a good thing) about the possibility of using a 50 cal sabot in a 500 Mag or 50 AK. I remember when Remington made their accelerator line of boolits but was wondering if it would be possible and the potential accuracy of this combination. I have an old NEI 300gr/430" boolit mould and was thinking of casting booits out of pure lead.

Just curious to see if anyone else has tried this and if so what the end result was.

[Maven]

stubshaft, I've used .50cal.sabots with Ly. #429421 and RCBS 44-250-K in an inline rifle and found them to be quite accurate. Your application is a bit different, but the sabots I used were MMP high pressure ones. Here's their website, http://mmpsabots.com, if you'd like to see more.

[jmorris]

maadi griffin did carry sabots for the 50bmg that used .30 cal bullets but it looks like they are no longer in business. IIRC the load data sent a 180 grain out at over 5000 fps.

[stubshaft]

Thanks for the replies guys. I guess i'll just have to give it a try.

[Lloyd Smale]

My buddy once had some sabots for shooting 357 bullets in the 500 and 475 linebaughs. They arent made anymore. He said he got some unbelievable velocitys but never did find a really accurate load. These sabots looked more like the excellerator sabot then a muzzle loading sabot. My guess is a muzzle loading sabot is to thin to stand up to being shot through a forcing cone and probably wouldnt do well if you crimped on it.