![]() I am never going to assume I can shoot through any armor.Ī shotgun, with an 18”+ barrel, is much kinder to the ears than one might expect, as I learned when I knocked-loose my hearing protection a few times, in fast-paced enclosed-range training. Anything issued to LEOs gets lost, stolen, and misplaced, so it ends up in the hands of miscreants. Level IV armor is out there, plentiful, largely because it is relatively inexpensive, and issued to LEOs in massive quantities. My understanding of 300 BLK Subs are on par with pistol rounds but can penetrate armor. 7x”-ish “hole poker” without the ability to induce rifle-velocity incapacitation.įor home defense purposes, not expecting to be overrun by a mass of armored drug cartel soldiers, what are some well-considered choices here? 355 vs.223/.308 diameter, predictable expansion in a quality round, hearing safe, relatively wieldy - but still a. Barnes TAC-TX Black Tip).Īt the extreme other end of the spectrum are items like suppressed AR-9 pistols shooting something like Fed HST 147’s. For 300 AAC Blackout, supersonic seems a better choice here, as I can get 2300-2400+ FPS from an 8.5” barrel with a 110 gr quality bullet (e.g. Suppressors mitigate hearing damage concern this to a degree, but you now have the issue of increased unwieldiness of the 223 length barrel + loss of velocity and increased gun battering for an ever-shorter barrel. My question: At what point is bullet velocity compromized to the point where the short (223/556) AR becomes pointless, and you mights as well switch caliber to something like 300AAC? The current vogue of short barrel AR’s drives up muzzle blast and drives down velocity - the key incapacitatign component. Shooting AR’s inside a house, especially shorties seems a surefire route to permanent hearing damage for self/family/pets. Overpenetration may be a concern for some as expansion seems to require a “wet” medium.įull-size AR’s (14.5”+ barrels + muzzle device) aren’t exactly wieldy inside a house. I’ve seen some less expensive alternatives lately. creating rifle velocity type incapacitation. There are (expensive) Lehigh 300 Blackout “Maximum Expanion” 300AAC subsonic rounds with huge (1”) expansion, but these could be classified as novelty rounds and are still poking (big) holes vs. ![]() There probably isn’t a ‘right’ answer as everything is a tradeoff, but it is something I have considered and experimented with a bit. ![]() ![]() Unless you never miss.Īlso, even with supersonic ammo using a suppressor will probably lessen the damage to your ears quite a bit vs. Suppressed supersonic 300 BLK is somewhat less noisy than suppressed 5.56 but is much more likely to go through all of the walls in your house and maybe the neighbor's depending on where you live. For use with a suppressor I would probably choose the 300 BLK over subsonic 9mm in a carbine, but I'm not sure I would choose supersonic 300 BLK over 5.56 even with a suppressor. But for supersonic use the 5.56 has the advantage in that it will likely penetrate less layers of common building materials and be somewhat safer to use in a home situation than 300 BLK. The 300 BLK has an advantage in that it is probably the quietest common center fire rifle round and suppresses nicely. So far I only shoot supersonic ammo in my 300 BLK rifle and it's not my home defense weapon at this time. It would probably be more effective than subsonic 9mm, but I'm not sure how much more effective. I went down this same road a while back and have yet to commit to the use of subsonic 300 BLK. Improved terminal effect on a target than suppressed 9mm especially if armor is involved.īoth of those are probably true. Quieter than suppressed supersonic 300blk so better preserving ones hearing in a home defense scenario I was naively thinking of the advantage in two dimensions
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