What do you not like about it? I’m thinking about building a supressed 8-10” for around the house.For the AR rifle/ pistol the only round aside from 5.56 I have now is a 9mm and the only other cartridge I'm seriously considering is 22lr.
I jumped into 300blk about ten years ago (in a bolt action) and honestly I'm a bit disappointed in the round. I sometimes think I'd like to get into 6.5 Grendel but I barely shoot what I have now.
Get a CMMG conversion kit. They’re awesome and a great way to do close range practice or plinking for cheapFor the AR rifle/ pistol the only round aside from 5.56 I have now is a 9mm and the only other cartridge I'm seriously considering is 22lr.
I jumped into 300blk about ten years ago (in a bolt action) and honestly I'm a bit disappointed in the round. I sometimes think I'd like to get into 6.5 Grendel but I barely shoot what I have now.
So what are you trying to make it do that it will not?I jumped into 300blk about ten years ago (in a bolt action) and honestly I'm a bit disappointed in the round
You show me yours and I'll show you mine!No pics, so none of the above happened.
We really need pics guys
Oh yeah..from the past.. a box full of them RIA had to dump em, because Colt at that time was the "only" one, was sue n everybody have some marked "M15, XM15" Assembled a few XM177 clones, Colt A1 uppers, Colt Chrome Bolt carriers. So I was assembling them long, long ago. Friends owned a sbop back then, they freaked out when I said "order a bunch"😄 😄 Blast from the past!
What do you not like about it? I’m thinking about building a supressed 8-10” for around the house.
I had wanted to hunt suppressed and had misconceptions about how good a big heavy for bore cast bullet would perform at subsonic speed. Back before 300blk was a factory option I built a 45acp barrel for my H&R single shot and have a 357 barrel. I had played fairly extensively with suppressed pistol rounds and mistakenly thought the longer thirty caliber would behave a lot differently. It really doesn't. For dedicated suppressed shooting it's hard to beat the medium bore. 38/357/9mm is a sweet spot. None of them are particularly good on live targets. I eventually figured out that suppressed hunting is ok on small stuff like foxes and chicken coop raiders but really if I'm going hunting there are good reasons why rifle rounds are loud.So what are you trying to make it do that it will not?
I have one of those and you're right they are a great little gizmo. I like it enough that I think I want a dedicated 22lr AR. The drop in kit has been pretty reliable but the accuracy isn't really good. Cool for close up plinking but not enough for something like an Appleseed shoot or anything like that. A dedicated upper (or possibly dedicated rifle) will have a real chamber and will be much more accurate and therefore more fun.Get a CMMG conversion kit. They’re awesome and a great way to do close range practice or plinking for cheap
Interesting take.I had wanted to hunt suppressed and had misconceptions about how good a big heavy for bore cast bullet would perform at subsonic speed. Back before 300blk was a factory option I built a 45acp barrel for my H&R single shot and have a 357 barrel. I had played fairly extensively with suppressed pistol rounds and mistakenly thought the longer thirty caliber would behave a lot differently. It really doesn't. For dedicated suppressed shooting it's hard to beat the medium bore. 38/357/9mm is a sweet spot. None of them are particularly good on live targets. I eventually figured out that suppressed hunting is ok on small stuff like foxes and chicken coop raiders but really if I'm going hunting there are good reasons why rifle rounds are loud.
The 300blk does best on game with supersonic ammo. The best game rounds in 300blk are almost as good as 30-30.
So I'm no longer trying to make it do anything it's not doing. I did. I learned. And I spent a ton of money along the way.
As for an around the house AR it might do pretty well for what you want to do, it just didn't do what I thought it would. In my defense, back when it first came out there was a lot of people buying and selling a lot of hype. A decade plus later you have more available to work with. Also, a 300blk will almost always be more reliable than a pistol caliber AR because it's gas operated and a bottle neck cartridge. It's good for what it's good for, and it sounds like what you want to do is more like what it's good for. For defense and small animals in an auto loader with reasonable suppression it's good. I put an expensive can on an expensive bolt action and tried what AAC was saying it was good for in the early 2000s. It sucks for that.