7mm 50 grain ??

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7mm 50 grain ??

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Has anyone herd of a 7mm round in a 50 or 45 grain bullet ?? my buddy has a 30-06 and has 50 grain bullets just wondering if they make 50 grain for a 7mm ??? I cant seem to find any
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I do not think you will find a 50 grain bullet in a 7mm casing. The 30-06 rounds that have a 50 grain bullet in them, have a small plastic insert in the casing to make up the difference from the small grain bullet to fit into the 30-06 casing. I think i have some laying around home, and i can take some pics to show everyone what i am talking about.
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Yea I seen the 30-06 ones my buddys has them for his thats what got me thinkin if maybe they made them for a 7mm but ive looked almost everywhere no luck so
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They're called "sabots" those little plastic incased rounds leave large deposits of plastic in the lands and groves of your rifling and it's hard to get out. After only a few rounds the deposits of plastic start to build up leaving you with a very irregular shot pattern. In fact the groups open up so violently it's funny, kind of like a shotgun.

I'm sure you could probably buy the little plastic sabots and purchase some 50g bullets to use, but finding the right powder and charge would be the hard thing.

good luck.

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xdeano is right, they are or used to be called 30-06 "accelerators" and it is a sabot. I used to try (try being the key word here) to shoot them in my 30-06 and at 100 yards it often looked like some one shot the target with # 4 buck from about 20 yards. Unless you hate hitting anything, I'd forget them but thats just my experience.

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Agree with jaybic and xdeano, my brother had some "accelerators", and they were the most innaccurate bullet I have seen, could never get a pattern from them, and you were lucky to get five holes in the target, personally, I wouldn't spend the time looking for a bullet that small for that caliber IMO
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ditto
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