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300 AAC Blackout
Geri
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Anyone have any experience with this caliber in a bolt rifle? Thanks.
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Loaded with 125-150 grain bullets, it is fairly close to the 7.62x39, and 30-30 Winchester. It would sork well in any bolt cations with a 222/223 Remington head size, as the case was originally fromed from the 221 Fireball, itself, being a shortened version of the 222 Remington.
I have not seen any bolt rifles for sale yet, but I am sure there are some custom ones out there. It all depends on what you wish to do with this beast, as to what twist rate you want your barrel to be.
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The 300 AAC Blackout is fine for bolt action rifles as long as you work on the feeding a little bit or work from a DBM.
Remington and AAC combined design efforts to achieve the AAC Micro 7 rifle chambered specifically for the 300 AAC Blackout cartridge.
There is also the SPS version as mentioned above.
The selection of commercial bolt action rifles is slim because the main attraction of this cartridge is firing it from a semi-auto platform suppressed.
The cartridge was originally designed to be used suppressed. But Americans being Americans, decided that it could serve a dual purpose as well since it was possible to get enough velocity from supersonic loads to make it a short range deer rifle. Since Remington (Freedom Arms Group) now owns Barnes bullets, they have a proper supplier of properly designed bullets for hunting.
There is Match ammunition available obviously:
Since the selection of commercial rifles is so slim, most rifles for this cartridge are being produced by custom rifle makers. This doesn't necessarily mean expensive but you certainly won't find $500.00 custom rifles either.
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Savage reportedly backed out of a .300 BO bolt action because it was not as accurate with subsonics as they thought their customers would want.
Must be they didn't want to put the fast twist barrel on it, like a 1 in 7, or a 1 in 8. Most of the subsonic loads, feature REAL HEAVY bullets, like the Sierra 240 SMK, or the 220 SMK. Most likely, the lighter 110-150 grain bullets group's opened up a bit with that twist. Although it is a versatile cartridge, it cannot be set up to go subsonic with heavy bullets, and be real accurate, and expect to be real accurate at supersonic velocities, with the same rifle. It just is not going to happen.
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Would like information from someone who has harvested an animal with this caliber. Thanks again.
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