Thread: You told me so! (subsonic centrefire)

Yeah I’d definitely give it another go mate. Part of your challenge though is the factory ammo thing, we reloaders mustn’t forget that just willy nilly plinking is an expensive exercise with factory ammo, and that’s a problem. For the .308 subs shooter, a bag of old range brass, some Trail Boss and 100 cast lead boolits for $40 isn’t exactly in the same league as $60 for twenty factory .300 BLK ammunitions....

If there’s any way that you can sort out some loading of 30 cal lead boolits with a mate, or someone at the local club, you should give it a go.

Regarding trajectory and zero ranges, the subsonic 151gr cast lead boolit is very, very useful within 60m. I’ve got my Tikka set up such that the maximum correction to line of sight between 0m and 60m is +0.61” at 10m and -0.74” at 40m, bang on at a 60m zero.

70m is -1”, 80m is -2”, 90m is -4” and 100m is -6”.

This means that anything between me and 60m is going to get headshot. The vast majority of goats I shoot are well within 60m. On the odd occasion I might shoot past 60 m, I’ll use the rangefinder to be precise, and the holds are pretty simple.

I have had tremendous fun shooting rabbits out to 100m with this set up and once you get the hang of the holds it is remarkably productive. And of course the carcasses are perfectly clean, no blowuppery.

This thread has been very useful for us I think because it does explore the downsides and risks of subsonic shooting as well as what is becoming abundantly clear on the interweb and YouTube - the ballistic gel tests of the Hornady Sub-X that I have watched have been decidedly underwhelming, and now we have some proper commentary on the terminal performance on our game. @MB I’ve always enjoyed emailing the Hornady technicians if there’s anything that I want to know, or I want to give them some feedback on their products. Might be an interesting exercise for you, see what they say.