Thread: Long range for a 300 blackout subsonic

After a lot of load development and practice shooting paper and steel out to 400m with the newly acquired scope the 300 blackout was ready to drop some animals at range.
On the hill the dog bluffed us out scenting in a spot I haven't been to before. Hour and a half later and 600m down hill we finally spotted a deer a yearling hind bedded down with its mother feeding next to it but at 360m and a down hill LOS @-34 it was too far.
We crawled through the matigari onto a little rock outcrop for a solid rest, the range now 251m and LOS -32.3 chambered a 208gr A-Max doing 1050fps and dialled up 23.5 MOA which is 67.6" or 1.7m drop.
and a 2 MOA hold for wind. Pop goes the Blackout thud goes the an ear shot and she rolls over where she lay, then 6 more deer pop their heads up and start moving off, so a quick range for one of the stags and a do a stag vocal call to holdem up dial up at 21.7 MOA 238m and another pop thud right between the eyes job done its a buzz head shooting animals with what ever calibre and just that much more to do it with a subsonic rifle. Dropped 25 goats as well. 43 deer seen for the 3 day trip and 4 mobs of pigs.
The backs and knees a bit sore now with a 13 hour walk out and 40kg of boned out meat.

6 point stagy 238m


251m hind

13 hours. Fark me your keen

Great stuff

Hamish

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Keener than me, I did a 35kg pack for 2.5hrs and that was enough, a sore Achilles didn't help.

sounds like a great trip, and some nice shooting aswell

Awesome, i'd love to see a video of that!

Good stuff Tikka.

Bet the body is feeling it now, good on you for doing the hard graft

Good stuff,nice tastefull photo too.

Good on you for training beforehand and then getting those two deers in theses conditions.
I really appreciate the first sentence of your writing .
Lot of people out there might think that is just that easy to pick up any 300 blackout or other sub gun and just head shoot adeer past 200 m: it is NOT!
I , myself would not be confident to risk those kind of shots at those distances with my sub guns.
Last Monday I got a young fallow at 116 m with 40 degrees downhill shot.
It dropped and died within the minutes. I was aiming for a bodyshot.
When I went to retrieve it I found that my bullet when through just above the base of the neck , broke a vertebra and cut an artery .
That was lucky but I was not too proud of the shot.( back into confirming my sighting in, and testing my loads to establish what went wrong).
On the same territory I found a rotting fallow with the base of the jaw broken.the rest of the body was in good condition with no other trace of a shot.
It would have been there for 7 to 10 days I would say. It probably got shot by one of those "expert " neck or head shooters who think they have missed when the animal did not drop on the spot.
Food for thought ...
And you are hunting with a dog which is almost indispensable for those type of hunting conditions,good on you again.

Awesome effort !

faark me...I would try it at 50 yards but no more...hats is off to you and as Friwi said,great to see a four legged tracking machine out with you.

Good stuff
Those 208gr amax mushroom at subsonic velocity or just pencil through?
Cheers

How fast is it going at 250?

Originally Posted by TLB

Good stuff
Those 208gr amax mushroom at subsonic velocity or just pencil through?
Cheers

Mostly pencil but have the odd one tumble through.

speed is 960fps @ 250m

Have you tried the Lehigh pills? I have found them to be the best killing 300blk subsonic pills I have used. I haven't tried any long range with them as the cost to confirm the drops scares me