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If you want a true 30-30 comparison look into the new American 30 in final development by Black Hole Weaponry. It is a 6.8 necked up and pushes 2400+ with a 150gr bullet.
I consider the .300 Blackout more of a "why bother" hunting round, than the 6.8SPC.
The 62-64 grain .223 hunting ammo hits just as hard as the 110-125 grain .300 blackout hunting ammo. If you live in a state with caliber restrictions, it isn't as powerful as the 7.62x39 and the 6.8SPC really outshines it in power and range.
If you are looking at .308, .270 or .30-06, then you are not looking at AR-15s
If you are looking at AR-15s, what exactly does the .300 ACC Blackout do even as well as the 6.8SPC other than use standard .223 Magazines?
If you are looking to hunt with an AR-15, you don't need tons of magazines, so why not buy a specific 6.8SPC magazine?
If you are looking to plink at the range, why would you spend the money on 300 AAC ammo over .223 Ammo?
When I visited a Cabelas a few weeks ago they had 4 or 5 different brands on the shelf, maybe more. They had subsonics and supersonics.
I recently put together a .300 blackout. For me it's not about whether it's better or worse than a 7.62x39 or a 6.8SPC. None of that matters when you're not buying into it purely based on ballistics. Ballistics aren't everything....think about all the great rounds out there that you can't even buy commercial ammo for and that any components for it has to be custom built or ordered online with long wait times and at a high cost. You can't exactly walk into walmart and buy some 6XC ammo.
What really matters is that you can use all standard .556 AR parts (except for the barrel of course) that are available everywhere. You can now shoot a different round that does well out of a short barrel (unlike the .556), can shoot subsonics that are even commercially available (great if you have a suppressor). If you're a reloader it's fantastic because there's piles of .223 brass everywhere for cheap.....and you can walk into any store that sells reloading components and find at least a few different bullets that will work with it.
I'm sure a 110 grain Barnes TSX would get the job done on a lot of things. It's not some kind of knock your socks off amazing round of the century....but it has it's place. There's so many companies making ammo and barrels that it's not going anywhere for a long time.
Suppressors are becoming more and more popular and that will only make this round grow in popularity.
Comparative ballistics between a 30-30 shooting a 150 gr HP against a 300 BLK shooting a 155 gr shows the BLK staying supersonic out to almost 700 yards with a terminal velocity of 1087 fps (MV of 1995 fps, BC .443). 30-30 goes subsonic around 400 yards with terminal velocity of 1178 fps (MV2390 fps, BC .218). 300BLK drop at 400 yards 48", 30-30 drop at 400 yards 64". Much of it is the type bullet used, most 30-30's are blunt nosed with relatively poor BC and bleed energy rapidly due to aerodynamic drag. 300 BLK typically uses high BC bullets and are able to maintain a higher percentage of downrange energy and velocity.
I think there is plenty of room in the AR world for variety, I think that the 300blk, 5.56, 6.5, 6.8 all have something to bring to the table, the closest overlap of those said calibers is the 6.5 and 6.8.
I for one see a huge advantage to the 300black suppressed if I were ever able to get close enough to a pack of wolves with a 8 tag limit, as I would stand a good chance at filling all 8 tags with one pack. That is something as an Idahoan I could get my head around.
... and if you're looking for a short range defensive round a .300 BLK subsonic (preferably with a suppressor) is a winner
I held off for a year or two thinking the round wouldn't take off either ... I don't hunt but I like to shoot and work up loads plus I reload .308 & .223I reload a few .30 caliber cartridges. I also reload for the 5.56. Therefore i have brass and projectiles on hand already. My cost of entry to the .300blk is $200 for a barrel.
To get into a 6.5 or 6.8 I need a $200 barrel, a $100 bcg, $250 in brass, and $200 in projectiles. I want a 250 yard max deer gun for a state that prohibits .22 caliber. Can one of the "6" fans tell me why the .300blk is a poor choice? It looks like the way to go for me.
It may be convenient for your argument to make fun of that with which you don't agree, but it just seems childish to blame someone's weapon choice on "because it's the cool thing"
... and if you're looking for a short range defensive round a .300 BLK subsonic (preferably with a suppressor) is a winner
would that be the case with "low-recoil" or "lite" .308 ?Just FYI for anyone considering this, most subsonic .300 makes a really poor choice for a defensive round - almost none of them expand at all at that velocity and most of them will zip through 18" of gel and keep on truckin'. With the exception of some of the Lehigh specialty loads or Fat McNasty's expanding stuff, most .300 subsonics are worse than pistol calibers.
If you are looking for a defensive round in .300, you are better off looking at the supersonic loads. Especially since even the supersonics are much milder in flash and blast than 5.56. My 9" .300 is easier to shoot unsuppressed than my 16" 5.56.
"The civilian market for silencers soared 37% in 2013, when the total number shot up to nearly a half a million, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives registry. That's compared to 360,000 in 2012 and 285,000 in 2011."
would that be the case with "low-recoil" or "lite" .308 ?
Originally posted by: Tirod
"Let's not forget AAC had nothing to do with it, they lifted it from JD Jones and the .300Whisper"
Originally Posted by: Justin
The cartridge has an in-built appeal for the AK fan who's eye has wandered to the AR platform. It offers the same ballistics, but in a rifle that, by any objective measure, is superior to the AK in every meaningful way.
RELIABILITY
: The quality or state of being reliable
The SIG Arm Brace * * * Call it a pistol, faux-SBR, notarifle, or whatever, but a huge number of people are building AR pistols because it's a way for them to walk right up to the legal line and thumb their nose at The Man. It just so happens that 300 Blackout works just as well in an AR "pistol" * * *
That's not true, while I'll admit that the cases are very similar, the parent case for the .300 Whisper was the .221 Fireball.
It isn't often that you see a MOD try to derail a thread, but I'll bite.
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