I have an interest in it, but I also have a lower already Form 1'd and an AAC SDN-6 waiting on me in NFA purgatory. If you want to run a rifle caliber through a short barrel or shoot something suppressed, I don't know of a more efficient round to do so.
What he said. We should hang out more we think a lot alike
If you want to run a rifle caliber through a short barrel or shoot something suppressed, I don't know of a more efficient round to do so.
I tend to agree with the OP. I think it is a fad round, with a cult following. What I have noticed here on INGO, is something comes along, examples: Sig P238, then the 938, 300 black out, Glock 42. A couple people on here buy said item, start a thread, then everyone joins in and jacks each other off, about what a great product it is. Then more members buy it, start their own threads, then a review comes along, more jacking each other off. Then after all this great press, in the case of 300 blk. out, ammo is nearly impossible to find. Then someone puts their baby up for sale in the classifieds, but before that they start a "what's it worth" thread, then more jacking that guy off, telling him it's worth all the gold that MR. T wears.
Then before you know it, there are several of them up for sale, and it's onto the next "hot" item.
Lots of mental masturbation here on INGO. Just my opinion of course, and YMMV.
But in the future if you do, the nice thing is you wont have to buy 1-2k worth of mags to support the platform. Especially if everything you own now will be considered Preban or contraband in the future. .308 mags will be back over $100 each.I still just have never been interested in building a 300blk AR, or having any 300blk firearm in any case. Does anyone else feel like I do?
But in the future if you do, the nice thing is you wont have to buy 1-2k worth of mags to support the platform. Especially if everything you own now will be considered Preban or contraband in the future. .308 mags will be back over $100 each.
My next deer rifle is a .300blk SBR with and without a can. Little bit more ooomph while hunting if I happen across wolves, bears or even humans, but I am not lugging around a .308. I think if you go into it without reloading it, you will be broke fast. It also does not replace the .223 for our family, just adds some diversity to a platform we run. Plus when I decided on it 2 years ago, other family members did their research and went with it too so we share expenses on the reloading set ups. Now I am the only one has yet to buy one and I was the early adopter of it! We make our decisions slow and wait and to see what shakes out.
Maybe I'm wrong, but I thought 300 BLK wasn't a legal round to use out of a rifle for deer.
If a cartridge should get the marketing of the year award, the .300 Blackout is it. All this has going for it is for people who like shooting suppressed. That's it. It's over hyped, over sold, and ammunition is way too expensive compared to .223 / 5.56 MM. I'm not saying it's a "bad" round, it just isn't the game changer it's been advertised to be. Like many, I have zero interest in suppressed weapons, and there is nothing this cartridge will do that any 7.62 X 39 MM AK won't.
vitamink said:K. You can run them accurately out to 1000m (much like the 7.62 bullet only on better platform for accuracy)