Thread: 300blk vs 6.5 grendel with short barrels

Unless you are running leighigh or subx bullets the subs i used on animals were not great. You need to head shoot with heavy match bullets and have the rifle zeroed for those bullets, it is ballistically a 45 ACP.

With supers I was shooting goats at 450m and dropped heaps under 200m. The 110 vmax performs like traditional hunting bullet at BLK velocities.

I'm seriously considering another one based on a Howa mini with a DPT and chopping the barrel to minimum legal, i would run supers for hunting and subs for the kids plinking. I despise the MDT chassis as they are cold in the hand and have no fore end to grip, just my 2c.

Here is my data.

FACTORY AMMUNITION
LOAD BULLET WEIGHT (GR) AVERAGE VELOCITY (FPS) AVERAGE GROUP (MM)
REMINGTON OTM 220 1007 14
KATIPO 110 2257 23
HORNADY A-MAX 208 917 20
HORNADY V-MAX 110 2246 33
HANDLOADS Lilgun powder
PROJECTILE CHARGE (GR) AVERAGE VELOCITY (FPS) AVERAGE GROUP (MM)
CAST 186 GR 8 1086 50
CAST 186 GR 15 1775 32
HORNADY 110 GR V-MAX 19 2208 27
HORNADY 110 GR V-MAX 19.5 2249 35
HORNADY 110 GR V-MAX 20 2288 25