Thread: 30-223 build

Hey Guys

What is the general effective range of subsonic ammo on medium game. Deer etc.

Remington now make a factory 300AAC Blackout which you can buy factory ammo for. Has anyone had any experience of this gun/ammo?

I have watched a number of videos of subsonic/suppresed rifles and it is hard to tell how loud they are. What is the inside word from the guys that have them?

JC

Originally Posted by JCHUNTER

Hey Guys

What is the general effective range of subsonic ammo on medium game. Deer etc.

Remington now make a factory 300AAC Blackout which you can buy factory ammo for. Has anyone had any experience of this gun/ammo?

I have watched a number of videos of subsonic/suppresed rifles and it is hard to tell how loud they are. What is the inside word from the guys that have them?
JC

I saw those rem 300blkouts, tempting???

Anyway, the sub .308cal type rifles are maybe a little louder than say a sub-sonic .22lr, but in that ball park. The ''wack'' of the bullet hitting the target is much louder than the report coming from the rifle barrel.

Only negatives I can say is that they shoot like a rainbow (about the same trajectory as a .22lr), and they ricochet like bastards with the big 240gr SMK projectiles!!!

They are a lot of fun, I've only shot a few animals with mine...but I was picking away some goats at about 60-80m the other day and they had no idea where I was and what was happening, then they walked towards me (frightened by the ''wack'' of the bullets behind them). My brother was about 200m away and he never heard a thing.

Hope that helps?

kj

The problem is not so much hitting something but stopping it. Most bullets wont open up very well at subsonic speeds. I think you need to be very close like less than 50 yards. And this helps lesson the rainbow trajectory also. Anything sub-sonic is very quiet with a suppressor.

Originally Posted by JCHUNTER

Hey Guys

What is the general effective range of subsonic ammo on medium game. Deer etc.

Remington now make a factory 300AAC Blackout which you can buy factory ammo for. Has anyone had any experience of this gun/ammo?

I have watched a number of videos of subsonic/suppresed rifles and it is hard to tell how loud they are. What is the inside word from the guys that have them?

JC

Originally Posted by Vapour

The problem is not so much hitting something but stopping it. Most bullets wont open up very well at subsonic speeds. I think you need to be very close like less than 50 yards. And this helps lesson the rainbow trajectory also. Anything sub-sonic is very quiet with a suppressor.

If that's OK for deer is the bar set too low, all in the name of sound suppression? I recall a thread on this forum about using FMJ ammo on large animals, an idea that did not go down with everyone. Seems a good idea, at least by comparison.