Thread: 300BLK on AR Platform for Bush Hunting

Hi Josh,
There's some really good stuff on you-tube showing a 300 blk AR fired and suppressed with heavy caliber pills hand loaded to be subsonic. Looks certainly the business as they say for shorter ranges you could hear the rounds smacking the dirt in the berm and that clack of the action and that was it. They had I think a .223 version and just swapped out the barrel in the upper and that was it... I think it was the Daniel Defence upper version they were playing with.

They were pitching it as the "best of both worlds" ie. hitting power of 7.62x39 with less recoil and being able to stay on target watching the fall of shot that the faster, smaller .223 round wouldn't be as capable of and rely upon the frangible nature of the bullets to take the animal down and less wind effect. I'd be interested to look at the ballistic comparisons actually as to effective ranges in practical terms.

I understand getting the brass and factory rounds can be a issue so would pay to look into that I guess as well as the uppers can be quite pricy from what i understand from my LGS.

look at these two... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q5ALp8-d3dQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_D9neCL2c8

Hope that helps and I'll be interested in your feedback as I've got a plan for one of these in the background...a long long way in the back ground.