Of course, I’d like expanding ammo, but I knew Hornady is probably a good baseline to see if my SBR is even capable of holding a tight enough group to be useful for this. The main goal I want to achieve with the Blackout is schwacking coyotes around the house.quietly. Expansion would be the icing on the cake, but this round ain’t the one to deliver it. I’ll be doing some accuracy testing with it, but it seems more than accurate enough, since I was easily able to hit an old convenience store cup with it at 200 yards. ![]() ![]() Didn’t know until after I had purchased it that it was an A-Max bullet, so for it to not expand at 1000fps out of a 10.5” SBR really isn’t a surprise, I rolled the dice hoping that it was a bullet designed to do that. Didn’t research it, just got it to try.you know, like in the real world. Honestly, I’m a crayon-eating infantryman, and I bought a couple boxes of the shit to test in my rifle. That being said every video I have seen about discreet showed they expanded well and none reported having feeding problems. M4-style (narrow) feed ramps may need to be polished/widened for optimized feeding of the Selous bullet – Here is a video on how to do that." and since they cost near what the lehigh does and more than the Makers I decided not to try them. The reason I didn't try the Discreet ballistics 188gr Selous Machined Expander Projectiles is the tips look like they could have some problems feeding and even on their site they say "Note: The Selous projectile feeds best with 300BLK specific feed ramps. There is one I haven't tried and is mentioned above. That alone cost me over $100 in just bullets shooting at paper. To give an example once I decided on the Lehigh as my subsonic home defense round I shot 84 rounds of the 194gr maximum expansions just to make sure they would reliably run in my gun under different situations and conditions. I am just a long time 300BLK enthusiast trying to share what it has taken me many hundreds of dollars in bullets to find out which one works the best. I am not associated with, paid by or have any contact with any bullet manufacture. The Makers worked very well and if you want to save a little money over the lehigh these are the ones to get. They even have a plunger in their bullet to ensure expansion once it hits any soft material or liquid. Lehigh also took a lot of time to designing it to feed reliably in any AR. Out of the two the 194gr Lehigh was the clear choice as they engineered the bullet to fully expand at very low velocities once it hits flesh. įor the makers I haven't tried them all and can only vouch for the 190gr, 200gr and 220gr expanding subsonics which I settled on the 200gr ones but all three did very well.Īll the other bullets could not be counted on to reliably expand or expand as fully as the Makers and Lehigh at subsonic velocities. The Lehigh 194gr maximum expansion subsonic and the Maker Bullets. Out of all my testing there have only been two that stand out: From the Wedge to Rainiers to Berrys to Horanday, ect. ![]() I have tried just about every subsonic expanding bullet out there. View QuoteFrom what I could see the 200gr subs from DRT don't look like they would expand very well if at all.
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