I see these types of firearms as gateway drugs for your kids.
My kids love shooting suppressed, as I start them out that way (except for my oldest son, who shot an MP38 for his first gun experience).
For my younger ones though, they’ve been shooting suppressed 6.5 Grendel and Maxim9 a bit.
Once they were comfortable with those, it was funny to see my oldest daughter react with glee the first time she shot 9mm unsuppressed. “Whoah! Cool. It made a big bang!"
So those of us who have shot a lot of 300 Whisper already know it’s anemic on steel, no 2 ways about it, but still very fun at close range.
338 ARC will make hitting steel more enjoyable due to energy on-target that can clearly be heard when a 300+ gr impacts plates, vs 180-220gr.
The supersonic performance is secondary, but looking at their 175gr data, 44 Magnum muzzle energy/904ft-lbs at 300yds is still no joke. That’s of course from a 16” barrel, which I know I’m not interested in, but for those that don’t want to do 2 stamps.
LedZep said he’s being using a ThunderBeast FLY9 for his 338 ARC testing, which is a great suppressor, very light, very tough.
The approach Hornady is using with this increases chamber pressure into the low 40ksi range if I heard them right, which will cut SDs down into single digits.
I think an 8.5-12” 338 ARC would be very fun for the kids. Add it to their homeschool curriculum. There’s something about almost no noise at the gun and very loud impact on-steel that kids love.
My kids love shooting suppressed, as I start them out that way (except for my oldest son, who shot an MP38 for his first gun experience).
For my younger ones though, they’ve been shooting suppressed 6.5 Grendel and Maxim9 a bit.
Once they were comfortable with those, it was funny to see my oldest daughter react with glee the first time she shot 9mm unsuppressed. “Whoah! Cool. It made a big bang!"
So those of us who have shot a lot of 300 Whisper already know it’s anemic on steel, no 2 ways about it, but still very fun at close range.
338 ARC will make hitting steel more enjoyable due to energy on-target that can clearly be heard when a 300+ gr impacts plates, vs 180-220gr.
The supersonic performance is secondary, but looking at their 175gr data, 44 Magnum muzzle energy/904ft-lbs at 300yds is still no joke. That’s of course from a 16” barrel, which I know I’m not interested in, but for those that don’t want to do 2 stamps.
LedZep said he’s being using a ThunderBeast FLY9 for his 338 ARC testing, which is a great suppressor, very light, very tough.
The approach Hornady is using with this increases chamber pressure into the low 40ksi range if I heard them right, which will cut SDs down into single digits.
I think an 8.5-12” 338 ARC would be very fun for the kids. Add it to their homeschool curriculum. There’s something about almost no noise at the gun and very loud impact on-steel that kids love.
