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Reloading 300 blackout subsonic1/7/2024 ![]() ![]() I shoot hogs that show up on a feeder and a texting camera sends me a picture. A running hog is hard to hit anywhere, let alone at 200 to 300 yards. I dont need a 300 yard gun for shooting hogs at night. After actually doing this for three months, I am actually considering getting some type of AR style 12 gauge - if that tells you anything. Anything that rides in that ranger everyday takes a pretty good beating.īefore I started this thermal hunting - I had this idea I was going to be shooting a lot of hogs 100 to 300 yards - thus, the desire to get the grendel - in the AR 15 platform, that and the 6.8 probably the best choice. 44 carbine I can use for brush country, daytime hog hunting, but I dont really want to use that rifle as my everyday carry in the ranger. And I dont plan on buying another rifle for myself.Īnd, I do have a ruger. Besides, it is my son’s rifle and he has a new, high end thermal scope on order that he is going to put on that rifle for his own use. That is really a good round for hog hunting - but the night vision scope greatly restricts the ability to kill hogs, and the weight of the rifle in the AR 10 platform is unappealing to me. 308 in an AR 10 platform that has a night vision scope on it. I have probably killed 30 hogs with it in the last 3 months - just probably not the best application. Dont get me wrong - I am not bashing the 6.5 Grendel. I tried to make something out of it that it was not best suited for. I am thinking the 6.5 Grendel is going to be relegated to a deer rifle, with a nice scope and ballistic turrets - probably what the round is best suited for in the first place. 300 with decent bullets would be ok for that. ![]() 450 as a short range, thick brush daytime gun and carry gun in my ranger - but maybe the. Neither are deal breakers - I would rarely shoot over seven rounds in the first volley, but finishing cripples might take a few more rounds. It would actually make a great dedicated thermal hog rifle - BUT it would require a suppressor that would not work on any other rifle I have, and the largest mag capacity is seven rounds. His style of hunting compared to my style of hunting is like comparing a ballerina to a linebacker. I have a buddy who extolled the virtues of the cartridge - but he has a bolt gun and shoots a deer or a hog, every other year, from a rest and precisely places the shot. I bought the 6.5 grendel to make into a dedicated hog rifle, having no experience with the round. 300 acc loads are what I need and probably not the. I dont need a 300 yard round, But I do need a 150 yd round. It’s hard to find a round that does so much with 20 or so grains of powder. If you want a low recoil round from an AR platform, with a bigger hit than the 223, the 300 aac is one. I will update you later when he kills something with the suppressed hornadys. Many critters have fell to the Barnes 110 and 120 loads, pics and testimonies abound. Pass through, expansion, dead in 50 yards, good blood trail. My friend in NC killed several deer with his 300 aac, and the hornady 125 grain SST bullet I loaded before the Sierra came out. I shoot the 125 grain Sierra game changer round myself, with Lil’ Gun it is passing 2300 FPS. Lehigh bullets also have an expanding bullet for suppressed 30 calibers, but I haven’t tried it yet. ![]() Going to try the 9.3 lil gun load, both are on the hodgdon website. Without a suppressor, it goes “bang.” They shoot good over 8.6 grains of h110. I don’t have a suppressor, so I don’t use them. If it starts at 1050, that gets you to about 50 yards I figure. Hornady, God bless ‘em, has brought out a 190 grain expanding bullet for the blackout, that they say expands down to 900 FPS. ![]()
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