Is there any "rational" benefit to 300blk?
Pros
>easily suppressed
>more joules at closer range
>more effective from shorter barrels
Cons
>cost
>availability
>subsonics lose almost all terminal viability for killing
What does /k/ think?
Is there any "rational" benefit to 300blk?
Pros
>easily suppressed
>more joules at closer range
>more effective from shorter barrels
Cons
>cost
>availability
>subsonics lose almost all terminal viability for killing
What does /k/ think?
its good for doorkickers, and that's it
>subsonic not viable for killing
You wanna find out?
>viable
Sure it can kill, but it wont be a "humane" kill. For example hunting hogs a 110 VMAX will do much better than a 220grn sub. Not to mention humans and body armor, although 300 sucks in general against armor.
It was designed specifically for the niche of suppressed subsonic fire out of an AR, for spooky operators to poke holes in people at close range. It's literally just bacon flavored 9x39mm. Whether a kill is "humane" matters to hunters, not the fricking SEALs.
>It was designed specifically for the niche of suppressed subsonic fire out of an AR, for spooky operators to poke holes in people at close range. It's literally just bacon flavored 9x39mm. Whether a kill is "humane" matters to hunters, not the fricking SEALs.
So youre telling me the guys who kick in doors, and very well may encounter people with armor are willing to use a fricking subsonic round that cant defeat soft armor much less LV3+?
The entire purpose of .300 BLK is for the theoretical situation where you're some super secret squirrel operator who needs a suppressed subsonic gun (which will always come at the disadvantage of having handgun tier ballistics), but at moments notice you could also be involved in a normal firefight at which point you'd want normal supersonic rifle ammunition. There's basically no reason to go for it as a civilian, and most of the people who do go for it don't have a suitable sighting system that either offers both zeros for super and subsonic ammo, or can quickly swap between the two.
>much less LV3+?
5.56 won't even defeat that without rare meme loadings.
>5.56 won't even defeat that without rare meme loadings.
i get that but spooky doorkickers are the exact types who have access to that. Its not even an option with 300.
this isn't even correct. Completely wrong. Why do you try to falseflag in such an elementary fashion?
Your optic wouldn't be zeroed for supersonic rounds and the gas system wouldn't be able to handle a rapid switch without adjustments.
also
>what is m855a1
>spews absolute moronation
>accuses others of being completely wrong
yeah
>doesn't prove any of my points wrong
>nocanz
>has no idea what the frick hes talking about
My guy, are you a moron? There are optics that offer exactly what you are asking for and who the frick tinkers with his gas on a 300BLK? Its literally meant to be fired sub or super with the same gas setting, you dont need to adjust it for reliable function. You are big dum dum, my man.
>Your optic wouldn't be zeroed for supersonic rounds
Holdover difference between 220 grain subs and 110 grain supers is less than 3 inches within 100 yards. You zero for the supers so you can use any BDC.
>and the gas system wouldn't be able to handle a rapid switch without adjustments.
You just gas it so it rusn with subs, and deal with overgassed if you have to resort to supers.
I run it as a dedicated thermal scope rifle. So I can digitally switch from memory 1 to 2 for supers. But what do I set the red dot on top to? That bothers me.
Set it for subs
>Whether a kill is "humane" matters to hunters, not the fricking SEALs.
In the military, the guys with the highest kill counts are usually hunters.
Why wouldn't I use a 308 for hunting? My 300blk is set up to not blind and deafen me when I use it as a bedside gun and magdump a crackhead at 2am.
.300 is a very niche cartridge, but subsonic cartridges have been efficiently killing shit dead for as long as firearms have been a thing.
Not shit with armor
Supersonic doesnt penetrate hard armor either. So the only thing you loose out on is penetration of soft armor and helmets. Pelvic and face shots are quite lethal, so if you're really worried about soft armor, either shoot them in the neck/face or the pelvis. Or load supersonics
>(You)
>"humane" kill.
do not care
The whole point is to have a heavier bullet for more kinetic energy at subsonic velocities. That's why it exists and it's basically a shittier version of 7.62x39 (as proven by GIGN tests)
300 AAC has some huge disadvantages but it's laughable to call it a "shittier version of 7.62x39". 7.62x39 didn't last two decades in Russian service because the flaws of the cartridge became painfully obvious to even them.
300 works in an AR and doesn't cause hammer follow with subsonic rounds. I can also get it with a moronicly short barrel.
>7.62x39 didn't last two decades in Russian service because the flaws of the cartridge became painfully obvious to even them.
49-74???
5.45x39 began development at the very end of the 1960s
This is kinda wrong but I must respond so that less learned lurkers can understand. What is good for a conventional military force is not necessarily good for individual/asymmetrical force users. 7.62x39 is a great cartridge much better than .300 blackout for overall usage but not as good as 556 for conventional forces because the meta is volume of fire until artillery/airforce. You can just carry more 556 so it works better, hence 5.45 development. As a civilian you would be better served by 7.62x39 or .308 than either of the other cartridges except in terms of ammo availability for 556
flat trajectory and higher bullet velocity generally means greater likelihood of a hit at range and more likelihood to hit a moving target without significant correction
7.62x39 is a dramatic shift from 556 and it's not a huge surprise that Russia began looking into a high velocity cartridge about 5 years into the Vietnam conflict.
Can you read what you just wrote. The Vietnam war was a jungle battle which 7.62x39 is a superior round for it due to less deflection in brush and lower ranges. Vietnam would not be the deciding factor in changing their cartridge. Preparing for peer to peer warfare would be the reason, it was the cold war but they were worried about hot war the whole time. You may be correct about the trajectories and range but you are missing the whole point of this thread and my last response. In a military scenario 556 and .300 can be issued based on usage and would fill their niche better than 7.62x39. Ultimately as a civilian/guerilla force 7.62x39 is a more versatile cartridge that can get away with lower volume of fire and less artillery due to different tactics and equipment availability vs 556. It can also fill the shoes of .300 blackout very easily with a mag change in a well built modernized AK (which is basically the only platform let's be honest).
>7.62x39 was developed for jungle/guerilla fighting
just shut the frick up with your zoomerlore
I never said it was developed for that, just that it's better for it than 5.45 or 556 you hooked on phonics moron. Lrn 2 read
>7.62x39 didn't last two decades in Russian service because the flaws of the cartridge became painfully obvious to even them.
...aside from your timeline being fricked, the vast majority of the Warsaw Pact didn't adopt the 5.45 despite having a massive incentive to do so. Neither did Finland nor China. After the Fall of Communism most of them went to 5.56 for political/NATO concerns, not because of any massive leap in performance. China went to their own propritary cartridge and several other nations that adopted 7.62x39 kept it, going so far as to adopt modernized rifles in the cartridge.
It doesn't make sense to switch from one intermediate cartridge to another unless you have money to burn or allied logistics to worry about.
And it wasn't formally adopted until 1974, at which point the vast majority of guns in Soviet service were still in 7.62x39. That's at least a 30 year service history, which is very respectible.
>The whole point is to have a heavier bullet for more kinetic energy at subsonic velocities.
this.
the original is called "whisper" for this reason.
holy fricking shit i've been trying to post for an hour and i keep getting redirected to these gay ass fricking threads WHAT THE FRICK
all of these nogun teenagers arguing whose make believe fantasies are more make believe
Subsonic bullets not deadly?
>joules
>What does /k/ think
We think you're a gunless slave.
K is full of homosexuals so frick their opinion.
Your all morons. you put the scope on the top then a red dot on the side and you kinda tilt the gun sideways like 45 degrrees angle to sue the red dot like you see the seals and green berrys doinmg. Then if you wanna shoot long distance you unsrew the suppressor EZ PZ
>"rational" benefit
You act like you didn't list several.
>suppressed
It does this better than most intermediate rounds. .300 BLK gets zero flash with a suppressor where 5.56 is pretty notable.
>close range energy
Not extremely useful on its own, but very nice when compounded with its performance in a short barrel. An 8" .300 BLK has as much energy as a 14" 5.56. That means you can have a suppressed gun that's just as long and powerful as a non-suppressed 5.56 version.
The 556 has more energy once you get past like 75 yards thoigh.
Yeah, the idea is that the .300 BLK would be used in a gun that NEEDS to be short, which is usually a boon to close range use anyway.
yeah? and?
300blk is cool because it's just a PCC with added options. Can get a gun smaller than an mp5, that's effective out to 200+yards and is more lethal. Probably the best innovation in vehicle based guns, as it's smg sized, while maintaining rifle firepower for ease of use and good at defeating automotive glass.
It's a direct replacement for the smg. You'll find its use case if you look at how 80's swat teams used mp5's
it's basically western equivalent of 9x39 mm
it's niche. It was made for super tactical operators doing CQC entry shit who wanted extremely short quiet guns to shoot the unarmored goat herders with at night. If your use case doesn't fit all of those criteria you're going to have a bad time. Or you can shoot pigs with it and do LARP shit. Your friends will be very impressed with how quietly the pigs get shot. Why not, you can build a spare upper for about what the SBR tax stamp costs. Don't even need a new BCG or mags.
The real comparison is against .350 legend. It is more powerful, not meaningfully more expensive, throws a heavier subsonic bullet and has more muzzle energy in supersonics. Also bullet starts bigger and has more expansion potential.
Also it's more moron proof by not being chamberable in a 5.56.
>made for b***h states when it comes to hunting
>barely exists
>terrible bc because lol flat nose bullets
lmao
>Made specifically to kill human sized things
>Only argument against is "well it isn't dead yet"
Lol, let me guess, you can't handle the recoil?
I wish .350 legend were better designed. .355 bullets instead of .358 is a turn off, as is the rebated rim, as is the lack of a parent case, as is the horrible marketing by Winchester, (trying to dethrone .30-30 with bullshit numbers? Good God!) as is its dumbass name. It's still better than .300 blk though.
I'm tired of this memetastic horseshit. Both the cartridge and firearms chambered for it are sold by multiple manufacturers, at affordable prices. State restrictions on caliber work in its favor, not detriment. "Lol flat bullets" is a non-concern as .357 magnum has repeatedly taken all forms of American game, including brown bears, from fricking handguns. .350 Legend extends that range to 200 yards at the absolute minimum. And, you know, spitzer .350 legend exists.
.300 blk only really beats it at extended range, but it's then destroyed by 5.56 unless you're comparing subsonics. I'm completely uninterested in the long range potential of SBR's.
>Not .358
Second worst criticism for two (and a half) reasons.
1, you can get a sizing die and size down the .358 by 1 thousandth
2, you would size yourself out of .355 diameter bullets which removes every 9mm loading, which probably outnumbers .358 offerings by a factor of at least 10,000 times.
2.5, you have support for .350L specific bullets like 180 soft, 150 FTX, 160/5 ballistic tip, etc.
>Resizing
Extra work. If it were designed for .357 bullets it could use both .358 and .355 bullets with decent accuracy unmodified, iirc. Also, would said die work for things like the TTSX?
>9mm bullets
The vast majority of which would be overdriven at .350 legend speeds, but I suppose there's something to be said for reduced loads. I've been curious to see what a monometal pistol bullet would do at that speed, I must confess.
>Support for .350 legend bullets
I mean, they could've just used bullets designed for .35 Remington. They're very close. Nothing would've precluded .350 legend specific bullets from being retrofitted back to .35 Remington either, for the 17 people who still use that cartridge.
It's nominal bore is .3570"
That would be weird.
Even 357 Magnum uses a 355 bore
... Well, SAAMI says it fires .357 to 0.354, but I'm sure you know better.
>cost
>availability
its really not far from the cost and availability of 7.62x39 brass.
>subsonics lose almost all terminal viability for killing
This time on OP is a Dipshit, OP makes the bold claim that a bullet being used in warfare to kill people isn't lethal. Let's see how this pans out.
There's a lot of reasons to want 300 blk. If you're wanting a shorter AR like 10-12", I think its much better.
I learned to reload it because pandemic made it impossible to get the stuff for a reasonable price. I think prices are still not great, I would definitely recommend reloading.
This is a pro-300blk analysis, take from it what you will.
https://fenixammo.com/pages/the-ballistics-of-5-56x45mm-vs-300-aac-blackout
I use to own around 5 300blk rifles. However I sold them all off after realizing that (for my purposes) I could do everything I did with 300 with a mix of 555 and 9mm
>shooting stupid quiet
Just use 9mm, I mean I’m just shooting paper
>super short barrel
They make 555 barrels that are just as short as any 300 and with 77OTM performance is close
This is my personal feelings on 300.
do you have a six inch barrel 300?
Just saying, "I need a really compact gun for XYZ but I also need it to be quiet and have an AR form factor because that's what I like" can be compelling reason.
No personally the shortest 556 barrels I own are 8.9 inches (micro galil and G36c clone). However if you wanted to you could get a 4.75 556 barrel, not really what me not having X length barrel has to do with the statement that you can get 556 barrels in the same length as 300.
frick forgot link
https://www.kakindustry.com/kak-value-line-5-56-4-75-inch-melonite-barrel
OK, and you appreciate that a 5" barrel 556 would be pretty awful in terms of post-hit effects, noise, suppressor wear, while still remaining supersonic, right?
Yes, however the statement
>5" barrel 556 would be pretty awful in terms of post-hit effects
remains true for subsonic 300blk as well, and the rest would also remain true for supersonic 300 as well. The whole concept is about give and take. And sure a subsonic 5" 300 barrel would be WAY more quieter than an equivalent length 556. But then you run into "well a 9 inch 556 would have better terminal ballistics while not sacrificing much for OAL". Its just a series of justifying whatever your stance is. In my opinion there was no reason to keep the 300s hanging around. I am not kicking in doors shooting kids in a foreign country like oper8rs are doing so I do not see the need in a quiet 300 when my MP5SD was quieter than any of the 300 subs I shot.
k well it's not about "kicking in doors" I guess you expected that to be some sort of own. It's about my hearing in HD. I'd wager most of the projectiles developed for 556 are not going to perform well at the very low velocities produced from a 5" barrel.
>using a SBR in HD
>using a silencer in HD
Why are people fricking moronic?
WHAT
either B tier bait or pic rel
Why would you let the cops seize your NFA items?
>he doesn't know about the bonus ATF vs local PD shitfest if they steal a tax stamp item
you still have to pay another 200 stamp
you're priorities in a HD situation is a 200$ stamp?
no you don't moron
i'd rather have a 300 blk in a sub 10in barrel
I dont know how I managed to type 555 every time I meant to type 556.
what's that a 62 Land cruiser?
what gun is on the right?
Full auto suppressed 300BLM subs is a thing of fricking beauty, a gun hasn't made me giggle like that in a long time.
>>cost
lose almost all terminal viability for killing
Keep in mind how .300BLK was conceived, which was just taking .300 Whisper and commercialising it. .300 Whisper was mostly designed for single shot applications that I know of (JD Jones loved his Contenders) and when handloading it's dirt cheap, and it's not as if you shoot a lot. Availability is stellar in that regard: you will always have .223 cases and .308 projectiles, if not, there's bigger issues. Yes, subsonics lose a lot of energy compared to supersonic rounds, but have a lot more energy than the subsonic alternative on the same bolt face (.223, .221).
>Is there any "rational" benefit to 300blk?
It's two guns in one. With supersonic ammo, it can work in the same role an AKM. With subsonic ammo and a suppressor, it can work in the same role as an suppressed SMG. AKMs are cool, and suppressed SMGs are cool, so a gun that can do the same job as both of these without requiring modifications is also pretty cool. Furthermore, all of this comes in a very compact setup, that also uses AR parts and magazines, which are easy to access compared to other guns.
The biggest downside is cost: to get the most out of the round you need supersonic and subsonic ammo, and an SBR and suppressor. Braces have solves the SBR issue for most people, but suppressors are still costly and need to be registered. But if you can afford it, it's a very interesting and versatile round.
Jack of all master of none.
ultimate midwit meme
And you couldn’t disprove it
oftentimes better than a master of one
>Is there any "rational" benefit to 300blk?
Yes, they are
>easily suppressed
>more joules at closer range
>more effective from shorter barrels