Note that all loads except the Fort Scott and Gorilla offerings were supersonic from the 16-inch barrel. The shorty gun was our budget hog hammer - a franken AR built on a Gibbz side charging upper and equipped with a Maxim Defense PDW pistol brace. Five-shot groups were shot at 50, rather than 100, yards as we felt this was a realistic distance for subsonic use. A Remington 700, equipped with a Nightforce ATACR 4-16×42 and SilencerCo Omega was employed as our longer rifle, and it was this combo that we also used for accuracy and gel testing. If you decide that a subsonic 300 Blackout Ammo fills your requirements for a stealthy hog slayer, or you’ve settled on that caliber for home defense duties, then you might want to avail yourself of our buyer’s guide below.Īll loads were tested for velocity using both 16- and 9-inch barreled weapons. Note there are a few more companies who offer bullets for you to roll your own (Cutting Edge, for example), but as work has displaced gentle-paced pursuits like reloading, we’d often rather pay in money than time. Gel testing confirmed that it performs no better than an unaltered bullet, so why waste the effort? Cutting to the chase, we rounded up a small selection of expanding subs. 30-cal to expand reliably at around 1,000 feet per second requires a specialized projectile, and they’re not exactly inexpensive.īeing cheap bastards, in times past we experimented by cutting back the jacket tip on an SMK and then boring out the meplat, thinking that this would be enough to induce expansion. 308 Win velocities, but from a Blackout you might as well be using a DeWalt. Hornady’s 208-grain A-Max, for example, fragments violently when shoved out the muzzle at even. We’ve tried bullets that in other applications are positively explosive. Common subsonic loads, even if tipped with a fragile match bullet such as the ubiquitous 220-grain Sierra Matchking, plow 0.30-inch diameter holes straight through fleshy targets and keep on truckin’ right into the next inconveniently located piece of real estate. 300 Blackout Ammo has a lot going for it, right up to the point at which you try to take advantage of its subsonic prowess for tasks other than punching paper.
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