200 grain at 1050fps = 490 ft-lb
395 grain at 1050fps = 967 ft-lb
Substantial difference.
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395 grain at 1050fps = 967 ft-lb
Substantial difference.
My daughter's ex-boyfriend lives in TX.
He and his brothers make a nice second income from hog disposal for local farmers, using 300 blk, usually from about 100-150ft away using NV equipment and AR15-pattern rifles, from the back of a truck. Most of the time, they're able to deal with the pests pretty humanely and quietly enough that usually, they don't stampede the survivors. Sometimes, it takes a couple of shots.
When he goes shooting game instead of vermin, he's running supersonic with (I think) a 338. He's pretty outspoken about not letting Bambi's family suffer.
He and his brothers make a nice second income from hog disposal for local farmers, using 300 blk, usually from about 100-150ft away using NV equipment and AR15-pattern rifles, from the back of a truck. Most of the time, they're able to deal with the pests pretty humanely and quietly enough that usually, they don't stampede the survivors. Sometimes, it takes a couple of shots.
When he goes shooting game instead of vermin, he's running supersonic with (I think) a 338. He's pretty outspoken about not letting Bambi's family suffer.
Are those your loads or factory? Those velocities are pretty consistent for a 300BO sub. ES and SD are also respectable. If they're handloads, do mind sharing your recipe?
At 50 yards
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So you want no noise. OK, so your held to velocity under 1000' per second. So bore size and bullet weight have no consequence other than sound of bullet impact. So my vote is a 44mag bolt action rifle with a 300gr bullet. So now you have maximum wound channel. With 300gr bullet you get maximum penetration with maximum energy transfer, ie a hand load. So the only down side is heavy bullet equals a louder impact noise. The bolt action is for simplicity, best reliability and cheapest design
35 more foot pounds at 50 yards.
70 more foot pounds at 100 yards.
117 more foot pounds at 200 yards.
using a 225gr eld and a 230gr ftx.
That's more than I would have thought.
Why subsonic? You should be plenty hearing safe with 300blk suppressed using supers. When the loudest sound is the sonic crack, the direction from which the shot came is indistinguishable.
Ed Harris "The Load" - Page 3
Has anyone use this load in their rifles? I would like to try it in my Mosin Nagant M44 but would like to know what others have done with it. http://www.castbulletassoc.org/forum/view_topic.php?id=1387&forum_id=22 thanks
castboolits.gunloads.com
Red Dot for subsonic .308
I know everyone uses Trailboss. I'd use it to if I could find it anywhere. I was using Titegroup for awhile but everyone seems to be out of that as well. I have Red Dot on hand. Hard to find load data now but I guess years ago Alliant would publish data. Something like 10grs for 165 SGK or...
My load is Red Dot with 208 ELD seconds.
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There’s something cool about hearing the projectiles hit the target.
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I agree with that.
