The Weirdest Cartridge You’ve Never Heard Of

By Jordan Sillars – MeatEater

Some hunters want a dedicated rifle for every purpose. Others say they prefer a single gun that can do just about anything. Most of us land somewhere in the middle, but Remington was aiming for the one-gun crowd when it released the .22 Accelerator in 1977.

The .22 Accelerator stuffed a 55-grain, .224-caliber soft-point bullet into a .30-06 Springfield cartridge. But it didn’t adjust the neck size of the aught-six. Instead, it fitted the bullet into a 7-grain, six-fingered, plastic sabot and then loaded that bullet and sabot into a standard .30-06 case. CLICK HERE TO READ FULL STORY