I’ve seen empty steel Blackout cases at the range in Alaska, brought two of them to the office where there are wiser people than me. Furthermore, finding subsonic 7.62×39 is like finding a pre ban Ishmash AK in America. All crude jesting aside, unless you are wanting to shoot subsonic rounds from a short barrelled weapon with a suppressor, there is not much point to having the cartridge. We called them “shoe box” cases when they came in the shop. The increasing proliferation of body armor is the final nail in the coffin of the .300 Blackout and ultimately the 5.56mm AR platform as well. Agreed. Daniel Horner of the US Army’s Marksmanship Unit, using hand-loaded .300 BLK in a custom AR, won the USPSA Multigun National Championships. the only thing that “gun” pictured is missing is an orange tip. Someone who chooses 6.5 Grendel over 6.8 SPC usually has their reasons for it, and it works the other way around as well. For self defense I keep it loaded with Federal’s 125gr SJHP ‘varmint’ round. The 300 Blackout is a fully mature, commonly available cartridge that allows the shooter to have a vast range of options as far as end use. The .300 Whisper, however, barely moved the needle with major gun companies in the 1990s, remaining largely in the territory of aftermarket custom barrel and AR upper makers. In the hands of well trained professional soldiers (which demographics makes mandatory,) kill rates will be about one in ten rounds rather than one in ten thousand rounds. AR uppers are fairly cost-effective. None of us could decipher the marks on the case bottom… maybe some enterprising person has a shitload of 223/5.56 steel cases and used the forming dies… will that even work on steel. By the early 1990s, J. D. Jones, the famous gun writer and cartridge designer, had pioneered the use of a specialized cartridge, termed the .300 Whisper, which took a .221 Fireball case and necked it up to take a .30-caliber bullet. LOL! I’ve been reloading for 40+ years, so it was just a question of waiting for the Dies I prefer to go on sale, and collect enough of the brass I fired. But, in that case, you have to be *very* careful not to double charge the case. If the US gets into a war with a technological peer such as Russia, China or Turkey (frighteningly probable) whose troops are wearing body armor comparable to our own, US soldiers armed with 5.56mm or .300 Blackout carbines will be in deep shit. This rifle comes with a sixteen inch barrel with 1 in 7.5 inch 5R rifling and 5/8-24 threads. For real-life, everyday hunting (not long-range cruelty), plinking, and home defense, the 300 AAC Blackout is unbeatable in the AR-15, suppressed or otherwise. It’s a blast to shoot. Even though I always strive for one shot-one kill, sometimes it’s unavoidable and a second shot is called for. No, the .270/6.8mm will never become a service round fielded by large scale forces. Eventually chambered in .221 Fireball (5.56x36mm), one of the original concepts for the gun was that it should be chambered for a forward-looking though experimental 7.62x28mm cartridge, using a stubby 81-grain bullet that was still small enough to fit in a standard M16 magazine. The technological gains made as a result of the 300 BLK can’t be ignored. My oldest boy’s first FFA critter was a turkey, and he ended up taking Grand Champion for the breed at the State Fair back in 2000. And it proves itself worthy of that honor. Well, back in the 1960s, Dale Davis of U.S. Air Force Armament Laboratory began to actively prototype the innovative IMP as an aircrew survival gun for downed pilots. It can also be found in some single shot and bolt action rifles, like Remington 700 and Ruger America, but they are the exception. Or to break it down further since this is appearing really complicated for some reason to understand. Factory ammo for most rifle calibers is north of $0.50/round, the 300 Blackout is no exception. Zero, ziltch feeding issues. Why 9mm over 300blk? .300BLK is an outgrow of the 300 Whisper, designed to run suppressed. Why not just use the 7.62×39 with any other non AR platform, or AR if you’re Glocktard equivalent fanboy, and get more options cheaper ammo and not worry about kabooming your 300 with a 556 on accident. So to rehash, I would rather shoot 308 for the same exact price as 300blk. But the value doesn’t stop there. Speaking of that, the article mentioned the great bullet selection for 300BLK – for x39, you’re probably not going to find much outside of whatever Tularnaulbearyanovsk decides to give you. Today, the 300 BLK is a full-spectrum cartridge that can launch bullets as fast as 2,800 fps and maintain excellent accuracy at a 500 yard effective range. Bolt carrier groups, gas systems, and bolts. I have 2000+ rounds of 7.62×39 steel case and 500 rounds of brass cased ammo. Decisions, decisions. For example, the Lyman manual has loads for cast bullets using Accurate #5744 out of a .30-06 that run about that velocity. I’ve got 556 (tommybuilt T36 is awesome, check out atlantic firearms), 6.8 ACR, and an MDR in 308. Had to move to help my Dad.. he is 89 and pissed at the world over his health.. he probably got Agent Oranged in Viet Nam because his kidneys are failing for no real reason. Florida-based Diamondback is a budget AR maker that doesn’t disappoint and has been in the .300 Blackout game since 2014 with their DB15 series rifles. Same size as a 223/556. Zero feed issues, zero accuracy issues. I’d like to see that load data. Besides standard 5.56 NATO variants, Barret also markets the rifle in 6.8 SPC and .300 BLK format with options for either 16- or 18-inch barrels and ALG triggers. Economy is the name of the game and 300 blk fills the bill for everything I need it to do. *) cartridge than the .300 BLK, hauling around an extra 5 pounds gets old in a hurry! “Why you should buy ANOTHER 300 Blackout”. Beware, this 1-6x variable power scope with the infamous ACSS reticle, is advertised as designed to work equally well with either 300 BLK or 7.62×39: I also hate that the BCG is proprietary, and I’ve had FTF issues with some trigger groups because of the harder primers on that nice cheap ammo I bought the upper to use. I’d reckon on 1:10 or 1:11 for the lightest .30 pills, and I’m guessing people are probably using something like a 1:8 for the 220’s. I didn’t think they’d leave the beretta either. I actually bought that for my kid it will be his youth deer rifle in a few years. Keep these articles coming! That shorter gas system pairs well with a suppressor, which the .300BLK runs flawlessly and makes an ideal hunting or suppressed home defense rifle. This was wonderful back in the day when most troops were conscripts who could seldom hit reliably beyond 100 yards even if they used the iron sights. No need to get triggered because some folks here like 6.8. View Details. Excuse the Hell out of me for being a bit confused about exactly which Russians designed the AK-74. It just makes no sense to me. Born just over a decade ago from a need for a specialized close-combat round for unnamed military special operators, the.300 AAC Blackout has gone on to become one of the most popular chamberings for the AR-15 style platform and with good reason. I have a couple mags of those Lehigh CQ for home defense backup. So I figure 2500+fps is about right. I DON’T know…Maybe for an angry tribe of Bigfoot! took me a while to see the practical aspects of the 300blk, but when it struck me its is essentiall a long range accurate pistol round that shoots .308 rifle boolits, how i percieved this cartridge made a lot of sense. Too many .300 blackout fanboys that want to pretend like their preferred round does more than it actually does. Change that. Fitted with a 16.1-inch spiral fluted barrel, Monoforge one-piece upper, and fully ambi lower, LWRC’s direct-impingement IC-DI platform comes not only in your standard vanilla 5.56 NATO but also in the super-duper rocky road that is .300 BLK. “I bet that the terminal performance of .300 Blackout is spectacular, on chickens.”, (Just bust’in on ya, Josh. Lewis Machine & Tool has been the international face of top-shelf ARs for years, with their rifles winning tough overseas tenders against still opposition to outfit the armies of New Zealand and Great Britain. I’m looking at getting a silencer for that pistol as my next purchase. That’s probably part of why they don’t produce it, actually…. These rediculous calibers get bought by people who hardly shoot and have the money to spend. though. We kick … 6.8 is a realistic switch, because unlike recruitment goals, it’s a decision made at top that they control. And JWT can like his boutique weapons bc this is America. It has been noted that big, long bullets need faster twist rates, and that faster twist rates, especially with use of jacketed bullets, can result in faster rates of throat erosion. The SIG MCX is an extraordinary weapon that is essentially built around the 300 Blackout. A whole bunch of people are snatching up AR-style rifles, carbines, SBRs and AR pistols and in record numbers. It case length of 51mm and uses a 30 caliber projectile. I’m finding that 150 grain loads are accurate and fun; I just bought a bunch of pulled 147 grain bullets for cheap and will load those up to have on hand. When I moved back to 25 yards it looked like a shotgun pattern. The combat rifle of the future will undoubtedly have ballistic performance similar to the venerable .270. Honestly, I think the only thing x39 has going for it these days is price and availability. Best yet, other than Magpul hardware and mags, they produce just about everything in-house with excellent quality control, which is an outstanding deal when you consider you can usually get into one of these for about $800. Industry Consultant = useless chicken crap. Although, now that I think about it, a bullet whose hollowpoint “petals” fragment might be even more devastating that an expanded .30 caliber bullet. Josh you’re correct about everything you’ve written. Had a lot of fun until them asswhipes started fighting dogs, then the Feds showed up. ©COPYRIGHT 2020, THETRUTHABOUTGUNS.COM ALL RIGHTS RESERVED. I really do think it’s a cool round and absolutely want to build a .300 upper next. The 300 Blackout is a revolutionary round that is rather new in the world of bullets and cartridges. These were gun enthusiasts with long histories with the AR-15 platform. As I said this is just IMO; I get what you’re saying. Rest assured, though, we are here to light the way. It was designed for AR-15 rifles and will work with 5.56 bolts, magazines, uppers, and lowers, and the only real change is a different barrel. I have a .30-30, too, and it’s my favorite gun ever. I also can get cases much cheaper. With that in mind, ammo maker Hornady brought the .300 BLK to market by 2011 after getting SAAMI certification for the cartridge, something the Whisper never achieved, and gun makers began making ARs to chamber the round, starting with big-name companies such as Sig Sauer. OK, I’ve got a question about the .300 Blackout. I was thinking about lever-actions and leather belts, not leather-actions and lever belts, LOL. I wanted a short barrelled pistol (with rifle round) but not in 5.56 (very loud). I’ve got at least four dedicated blackouts, two are registered SBR’s as I’m always worried that the ATF with change the brace thing again.. four additional barrels, five 30 cal suppressors and by S&B subsonic and supers by the case.. until I get set up for reloading again. Hard to beat. Additionally, it doesn’t suffer nearly as big of a drop off in performance as the .308 Winchester or .223 Remington with a shorter barrel length either. It has its merits…, https://www.tactical-life.com/news/us-army-6-8mm-weapon-systems/, https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2018/12/10/more-than-a-rifle-how-a-new-68mm-round-advanced-optics-will-make-soldiers-marines-a-lot-deadlier/, https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a23654011/army-68-calliber-bullet-replace-556/. How do the Mossberg 500 and the Remington 870 stack up? The 308 Winchester is a full powered rifle round that was designed in 1952. Personally, I run Blue Dot (a medium pistol powder) in .22-250 for a reduced load close-range groundhog round at 2500fps, and that’s worked very well! Want to get a Lee 185 mold and build an upper to test it out with though. While the IMP was a miss, the .221 Fireball (coincidentally the highest velocity pistol cartridge ever loaded by a major ammunition maker – with a SAAMI maximum mean pressure is 52,000 cupw) became a favorite with wildcat cartridge makers, wizened hand loaders who stretch the envelope of what is commercially available. Someone once told me that .300 Blackout is the most convenient way to shoot 7.62x39mm in an AR type rifle. (I use the term “petals” to refer to the six pieces of a hollowpoint bullet that would nominally peel back on impact to make the much larger diameter bullet.). Biggest lesson I learned was knowing when a chore was above your “pay grade”! When it comes to buying a 300 BLK, you have a lot of options. This solved the worry over a potential cartridge switch, because it’s plain as day the differences between the 2 guns. works in the AR15 platform. Intelligent conversation obviously eludes you. For home defense, the same thing can be said in a .300-chambered AR replacing pistol caliber carbines. When you look at buying a 300 Blackout gun (or upper), you have a dizzying number of options to consider. The idea behind this was that is was meant to replace the 9mm MP5 submachine gun in some roles, and this is mostly correct. F150 trucks aren’t race cars…weren’t designed to be …but they are very utilitarian…and it sure beats having to buy ammo (x39 ammo) at 3 times the cost of what I can make it for…better selection of bullets if I want to buy them than x39, better feeding from AR platform, more mags and better parts support as opposed to ak or ar/ak barrel change only. I for one will never choose to shoot 300 blk while it is anywhere near 308 pricing. Physics are a hell of a thing. One of the best things about this 300 AAC blackout was the compact size. We all want affordable ammo and easy maintenance, not to mention the gun grabbing idiots who want all of our guns at every turn. Hmm. I also shoot recreationally and competitively, and whether at the range for work or play, I’m always seem to hear people arguing over which caliber is the best, which brand could beat everyone else’s, and which guns are for those of dubious wrist strength/lack of chest hair. Big fan of .300blk for SBRs. Ifyou want to shoot .30 caliber bullets, move up to a larger platform that can shoot a real .30 caliber such as .308, 30-06 or .300 Win Mag. It isn’t finicky with bullet weight or powder charge, barrel length, or magazines. Probably a volume issue. Light weight, compact & low recoil bolt action what more can u ask for in a youth rifle. The next generation rifle will be a true rifleman’s rifle which will include an intergral, night vision scope with laser rangefinder and automatic sight adjustment for bullet drop. Have fun and keep shooting. Although, I’d argue that the CMMG 22lr conversion is just as fun and a lot cheaper for AR plinking! 7.62×33: .30-30 of lever action fame. It’s designed for use in short barrels and with a suppressor. Developed by Advanced Armament Corporation (AAC), the 300 AAC Blackout, or 300 BLK, can be fired from a standard 5.56mm AR simply by changing out the barrel. Now is probably the time that almost everybody else here realizes that they should have spotted that erroneous detail as well, but that is often the single biggest difference between the leaders and the led. TiborasaurusRex spent some limited time with it and his initial thoughts were that it was good stuff. If it’s a concern, the x39 mags are also shaped such that they wouldn’t work well with any 5.56 mag pouches you may have. …And the ‘thing’ they do best is eat and sh!t. Ruger American Rifle Ranch. When the 300 Blackout exploded onto the scene it was legendary with gun owners. In short, for military and law-enforcement applications, a .300 Blackout-chambered M4 makes an ideal sub-gun replacement, delivering a cartridge many times more effective than a 9mm pistol caliber MP5. I use the rifle for hunting & the pistol as a home defense gun. Any cookies that may not be particularly necessary for the website to function and is used specifically to collect user personal data via analytics, ads, other embedded contents are termed as non-necessary cookies. Anyways, thanks for replying! Most AR-15 upper 300 Blackout rifles feature the 1:7 and 1:8 twist rate, which is the rifle barrel’s spin rate. We should be coming together instead of arguing about what caliber is best, because in the end it’s all subjective and comes down to personal choices and what we are used to. Glory Be! Just have to keep a close watch on color saturation if you do the mags in different batches. These cookies will be stored in your browser only with your consent. Mean people them dog fighters are, fact is I’d have shot them with a .300 Blackout if I could got away with it. A 125 grain spitzer round can reach 2,215 feet per second. Had a coop full until the rodent boom (’15-’16) was eating more feed than the chickens! The thing is, 300-in-a-556 is not an academic issue – every year a few kabooms are reported to happen to people. Peace. https://www.cflgunandtactical.com/POF-USA-EDGE-P415-Upper-Receiver-Black-7-62X39MM-p/01435.htm. Time to Upgrade to the 7.6 Creedmoor (7.85×51.18), which fired from the .308 Winchester…. I just got my ACR in 6.8 (yes, they are out there, Rays Sporting Goods in Dallas has them). (PSA PA10) You need to do more reading instead of writing. The 300 Blackout is a rifle cartridge that’s more powerful than 5.56/.223 (AR-15 ammo) when fired out of a barrel that’s less than 16 inches long and works reliably with both super- and subsonic ammo. Anyway I liked your comments and this whole article. This holds true for both suppressed and unsuppressed .300 platforms. And, it’s quiet, too! We may earn a small part of the sale from links to any products or services on this site. I think there is quite a bit to be said for the round. I have numerous 5.56 AR’s, a 9mm carbine and a pistol. For my purposes it an expensive solution searching for a problem. These cookies do not store any personal information. A 300 is on the list right after a Galil in 7.62×39. Rainier Arms – Elite 300 Blackout rifles, SBRs and pistols. The Church of Make Whatever You Happen To Have Work, or something similar. Literally nothing about your comment is even slightly correct, especially the AK47/74 thing. Ammo cost (unless you are .gov or reload) for .300 Blackout is the main thing keeping it from being a general purpose range gun. I have both in the AR platform. Is there much difference in sound between 9mm, subsonic 300 Blk, Supersonic 300Blk or 5.56 out of a 7 1/2 inch AR pistol? I told you I like fixed 4 power scopes, especially for rounds like the .300 Blackout. The AK-47 and the M-16 were both developed around intermediate power cartridges that could be manageable in fully atomatic mode for suppressive fire. First, Hats off to Poultry. All rights reserved. We are talking about factory ammunition which the great majority of people reading this are using, not reloading. Way more powerful than a 5.56 or .300 Blackout. Wasn’t it just last month you were shilling the .300 HAMR or was it 6.5 Fadmoor? “You can go from 220gr subsonic ammunition to lightning-fast supersonics with just a mag change.”. **cartridge is for short range, suppressed, supgun work, and work it does. It’s not a specific thing that makes it fantastic, it’s all the specific things combined! I prefer an AK for short range 30 caliber applications, but that’s just a personal choice. It should be noted that in 1993, the ATF only logged 310 Form 1s to produce NFA-registered devices such as suppressors. It should be noted that. Initially intended as a light and short weapon for close quarters use,.300 Blackout guns are perfect home defense or for duty use as a cruiser rifle. The “click” intrigued me and the “thump” downrange sold me.”, Yeah, same here. Truly an awesome round to reload and shoot. Leverguns just can’t be beat for badassness and the tactile experience of chambering a round — but a semiauto .30-30 would also be a pretty amazing thing. A great thing is that the 300 BLK has extraordinary system life due to lower operating pressures and, as a result, requires lower lifetime maintenance. Light loaded rounds like a 125 spitzer round cna reach speeds of 3,100 feet per second. Repent now before it is too late! Thanks for the topic. Youtube videos do not convey how truly quiet it is. Sure, the round can be loaded for all these bullets (and that’s wonderful, truly), but is a .300 Blackout fan to have multiple uppers to switch on/off the lower to use this range of bullets? a 30-round 5.56 NATO AR mag will still hold 30 rounds of Blackout. And praying for you and kidneys. For example, it wasn’t as accurate as heavier rounds wh… Sabelnikov and his design group developed the 5.45×39 in the 1970s, not Kalashnikov. Savage Arms 110 .300 Win Mag. Tennessee-based Barrett continues to innovate & impress with their REC7 rifles. One “fact” I hear a lot is that the 300 Blackout is strictly a suppressed short-range, short-barrel load. superb practical cartridge for my uses. Using a fat 200-grain bullet, the 7.82x38mm cartridge generated a velocity of just ~1,000 feet per second. No other round I know of can be as flexible and utilitarian…. An SBR muffled and with a quiet bolt / buffer spring, it’s instantly obvious just how *practical* the combination is for home defense or popping feral piggies…. A serviceable one can be had for the price of a Glock. The CQB model offers 30-second barrel swapping capabilities & LMT's rock-solid mono rail. from deer to rabbits in my fields eating my crops its been nothing short of spectacular. The cartridge is a year-round, all day, everyday champ that can handle varmints up to medium game (thanks to great terminal ballistics), shoot and win matches, and is easy to maintain. Anything is cheaper if you reload, including all other rifle cartridges. AR-15 options are always available and are easy to build and shoot well on a budget. The 6 Best Gun Safes, Cabinets, & Lockers. I like to shoot and it is hard these days to find something different for me to spend my money on that I like. It is mandatory to procure user consent prior to running these cookies on your website. Looks like a cheap play item from the toy aisle in Target/Walmart. I will probably do this before getting started in the AR10 308 platform. The 300blk is the most consequential AR caliber developed since the 5.56 was adopted. Then I was forced (?) Stopped reading right there. All in all, the foundational idea of the 300 BLK was indeed a short-range, short-barreled weapon for combat use. Daniel Defense is an old hat when it comes to providing high-speed platforms to high-speed customers, such as their MK18s to the U.S. Navy SEALs. So how about putting those 78 grain bullets into a 308? Further, while you could step up to an AR-10/SR-25 platform that uses a .308 Winchester round, you gain mass and lose magazine capacity. I used to raise Kelso’s, Lacy’s, Blue Minors and Brown Shuffler’s. MICHAEL CRITES is el jefe around here. I am may be wrong, but far as I know, no one is marketing a subsonic 5.56/.223 defensive projectile that has better wound performance than 9mm or 300blk, and what goes for the 9mm at 148gr vs 300blk goes double for pretty much any projectile mass you can find in 5.56/.223. I priced the ammunition online as well as local sources, and in my neck of the woods, it wasn’t that much more per box than what I was paying for 5.56 fodder (within a buck or two for Ball plinkers). It’s a great round, delivering Soviet 7.62×39-level power in a compact, light AR platform with only a barrel swap. American Firearms is reader-supported. When you say, “Barrett,” most people think of their long-range .50-caliber BMG rifles, but the Tennessee-based company also cranks out a variety of popular AR platforms, with their high-quality direct-impingement REC7 DI models being front and center. He writes about guns and gear. I do not hunt, using my weapons for short to intermediate range target fun and self defense. I built mine to be very accurate and equipped it with a NP3-plated bolt carrier group for reliability beyond the average AR-15.. with a Seekins 10.5” barrel sporting 5R rifling, my AR pistol is unbeatable. litterally blows small wistle pigs and rabbits apart in two or three seperate parts. They require very little maintenance, and selling the eggs you don’t eat, will cover the feed easily. If you’re shooting the new VLD solids, then I don’t think there would be much of an issue. The 5.56 NATO round was developed in the 1960s since very light, and fast bullets were all the rage back then. Sure they want new weapons, and I want to own an ostrich. The troops will not be humping hundreds of rounds to sustain unaimed fire. Whenever you use a suppressor, you want to make sure that the bullet is stabilized out of the barrel.. I’ve never had a problem…. As about the largest a .223 Remington will allow in an AR is a 77-grain bullet, the bigger pill of the Blackout delivers. In fact, owing to its compatibility with current AR-15 5.53/223 components, AR-15 owners and enthusiasts were soon pleased with the Blackout. As for mixing up a 300blk & a 5.56 my solution was to build my 300blk AR’s in FDE color. 28rd CPD/ASC mags are the bees knees. Must’ve happened in the last year or so. 300 Whisper ™ is a Wildcat cartridge based on the 221 Fireball case and there is limited information out to the public or manufacturers in the way of cartridge drawings or chamber drawings. and WOLF and TULA already manufacture this Russian cartridge. Roman, to be clear, the DoD is saying flat out, in a lot of different publications, that they will field a 6.8 caliber bullet as a standard service rifle. even one at 265 paces. Once you pick up one of these, have your billfold closed because you will not want to put it back down unless it is in your gun safe. One personal opinion I have about 300 BO vs the author of this column is that 300 BO being the best round for the AR platform – while it is my 2nd favorite round for the platform, my favorite is the .450 Bushmaster. Subsonic Bullet) in various calibers. Eats steel all day and bangs 12×24 silhouettes from 300yds+ with easily duplicated results, round after round. I personally was wondering where I could get the bakalite AR mags. It was a bit heavier than your typical AR, weighing in at 7.8 pounds. It’s got a barrel length of 16.5 inches and an overall length just over 26 inches. You can go from 220gr subsonic ammunition to lightning-fast supersonics with just a mag change. It’s a great round, delivering Soviet 7.62×39-level power in a compact…”. chickensh!t to clean up is a lot of exercise, Josh. .44. As far as ARs go I have a POF in x39 that runs like a champ. OMG. I bet that the terminal performance of .300 Blackout is spectacular, on chickens. Buuuuttt… I know as a gunsmith who has worked on other .30 caliber rifles that this range of bullets needs different twists to properly stabilize this range of bullet weights/lengths. A mystique surrounds the .300 BLK (AAC Blackout), and it overshadows this utility player’s ability to deliver All-Star numbers in a variety of roles. The 300 Blackout can be found in AR style pistols, AR style rifles and carbines, and short barrel rifles. We refer to it as one rotation over a particular inch of barrel. With subsonic loads, it is almost Hollywood quiet, right off the shelf. When you say, “Barrett,” most people think of their long-range .50-caliber BMG rifles, but the Tennessee-based company also cranks out a variety of popular AR platforms, with their high-quality direct-impingement, Wisconsin-based Bravo Company has grown to become a household name in the AR game and their, Florida-based Diamondback is a budget AR maker that doesn’t disappoint and has been in the .300 Blackout game since 2014 with their, Not to let their fans out of uniform down, the company’s. The dimensions of the 300 BLK cartridge are the same as the.300 Whisper, which preceded it. This is because of gas blow-by and also higher pressures behind bullets that show more reluctance to “get going” down the bore. First, that’s a very nice looking Ameraucana hen there! Try “Detroit Ammunition” which produce a “Nahpatrone” or Near Cartridge (i.e. True to form, DD has off and on produced examples of their ISR, or Integrally Suppressed Rifle, for consumers. But check out these suppliers for a great selection of rifles chambered in 300 Blackout at the right prices. Perhaps you could do some testing to confirm? 300 Whisper ™ has traditionally been a round oriented toward handloaders and there is a lot of reverse engineering done out in the marketplace. The range is normally fairly limited as this is just a niche gun. Further, while you could step up to an AR-10/SR-25 platform that uses a .308 Winchester round, you gain mass and lose magazine capacity. Good for them, but there is not one example of this happening in the US military, ever. There are stock 308 bolt guns under $500 that weigh less than 99% of AR’s. A highly accurate firearm with a 26-inch barrel. After perusing and cogitating the info, I chose to go with the .300 Blackout. Bullets specific to supersonic use in the 300 BLK are readily and commonly available today and feature elongated profiles to aid in feeding from AR mags. 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