Quote Originally Posted by Hsing-ee View Post
I remember reading a review of the Accelerator in Guns & Ammo. There is also somewhere an article on a necked down .22-250 which fired some kind of .10 calibre needle, apparently used for shooting dragonflies on the wing. Who would want to do that?
Might that have been the ten smoothbore Winchester 70s used in 1959 by AAI to test the "Cartridge, .22" Caliber, Arrow", as part of the SPIW (Special Purpose Infantry Weapon programme), which fired a 10 grain, 0.72" saboted flechette? The idea being to create a very high cyclic rate, low recoil, small calibre infantry weapon that would give much higher hit probability than anything else known, but ended up being a colossal waste of money?