Head and neck shots are required if you wish to anchor them where they stand. It will certainly kill hogs, but tracking is typically involved following double-lung hits. ThisĮxperiment convinced me a Blackout/subsonic-ammunition combo isn’t ideal for such work. My Blackout experience, culling some 50 problem Texas hogs, involved a 10.5-inch barreled pistol and subsonic ammunition. ![]() The all-copperīullet was designed to expend at velocities down to 900 fps. ![]() Subsonic Raptor and Subsonic Raptor loaded to shoot. 300 Blackout case, Cutting Edge Bullets’ 230-grain With 200-plus-grain bullets (requiring 1:8 to 1:7 rifling twist) subsonic loads many hog-control hunters prefer to help facilitate follow-up shots while addressing large Left to right Empty. Frangible 90- to 100-grain bullets make viable varmint ammunition. 300 Blackout good for? Loaded with 110- to 180-grain bullets at supersonic velocities, the Blackout creates an effective hunting round for hog- to deer-sized game. The round delivers performance mirroring the Soviet 7.62x39mm. 300 Advanced Armament Corporation (AAC) Blackout resulted from a joint venture between AAC and Remington, the round SAAMI approved in 2011. AnĨ.3-grain charge of Alliant 2400 did the trick. Problematic, its 1.725-inch overall length left little roomįor powder in the small Blackout case. Jones of SKK Cutting Edge’s 230-grain Subsonic Raptor proved 300 Whisper, not Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI) approved, was first created by J.D. Patrick shot from a portable bench atop an MTM Level in 20-27-degree Fahrenheit temperatures and minimal Patrick conducted load testing at 3,200 feet above sea Brass-trim specifications are 1.368 inches, with a trim to length of 1.358 inches. 223 Remington/5.56 NATO AR magazines, limiting overall loaded length (OAL) to 2.26 inches. The Blackout allows for the creation of supersonic loads with bullets weighing 90 to 180 grains and subsonic (less than 1,125 fps) loads popular with suppressor owner with 200- to 230-grain bullets. Identical loading dies are used for both. 300 Whisper, but the Blackout includes a. It’s essentially the same as the original. 300 AAC Blackout, while occasionally seen in bolt rifles like Ruger’s American Rifle, is most commonly seen in AR-15 platforms. Hunting, Lapua 200-grain SP Mega and Cutting Edge Bullets 230-grain Subsonic Raptor. SPFB Hot-Cor, Sierra 165-grain GameKing HP, Nosler 180-grain Ballistic Tip 300 AAC Blackout pistol loads include: left to right,īarnes 110-grain TAC-TX FB, Hornady 125-grain SST, Speer 150-grain Frankly any emphasis on boutique subsonic bullets is a lost cause in my book.Author: Patrick Meitin / Wolfe Publishing Co.īullets used for testing. ![]() Short range lethality in a compact package with ergonomic controls. It makes the best sense in something along the size of an MP5, such as the Sig Rattler. Marketing has been focused on subsonic range toy bull shit guns as big as the same made more effective with 5.56. It's slow, the bullet selection is small, and it takes up the space of a 5.56 gun. TAC-TX are at least 70 cents typically.ģ00 Blackout is a very niche cartridge that the gun media has masqueraded as some do-it-all wonder pony. Plus they're usually between 20 to 30 cents apiece in today's market. The Nosler Varmageddon and Hornady VMAX 110 gr projectiles will achieve the same velocity as the 110 TAC-TX, and offer excellent expansion and acceptable penetration. Quality 300 Blackout projectiles are indeed quite limited, but you don't need to buy the 110 or 120 TAC-TX exclusively. ![]() Both hit, but only one is going to act like a rifle round. This is one of the main differences in a hunting cartridge versus a target cartridge at distance. High velocity (2200+ FPS) bullets will turn organs like the liver and heart into a jelly during field dressing. Albeit it doesn't do a lot, and with the already slow speed of 300 Blackout the engagement range must be short since most light. Meanwhile lower weight 110-120 gr bullets moving fast enough will exceed some tissue elasticity with their hydrostatic shock during expansion/fragmentation, and yield not only a permanent crush cavity but the disruption of nearby tissue through liquification. Click to expand.The subsonic projectiles are all at the best a slow expanding bullet that has to entirely rely upon permanent cavity and penetration depth for wounding.
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