Re: 6.8 or 300 blackout
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: rsilvers</div><div class="ubbcode-body"><div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: fdkay</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Once again, you obfuscate.
SSA publishes REAL WORLD VELOCITIES out of a rifle barrel, unlike the data you spew. No one said anything about pressure. </div></div>
It is not a question of real world vs non-real-world. It is not good to use regular rifles because there is no effort made to controlling the chambers/bores to minimum dimensions.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: fdkay</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Now you are suggesting that the velocities for the blk CAN"T be reached with commercial ammo, that you MUST bump up the powder charge to reach the pressure in a gas gun. Imagine that.</div></div>
What I am saying is that a 110 grain bullet is easily loadable to 2400 fps at 55,000 psi. If it is making less velocity, then it is also at less pressure.
300 BLK ammunition from Barnes and Remington meets or beats its claimed velocity in actual rifles.
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: fdkay</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Put up, or shut up.
I want to see you achieve these velocities with off the shelf, commercial ammo fired from a commercially produced AR15, 16" barrel with a standard operational gas port.
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You are just digging a deeper hole. 300 BLK velocities are not exaggerated.
Remington 125 grain Match is listed by Remington as 2215 fps. Steve Johnson, a former Hornady employee, achieved 2209 at 10 feet and 2235 fps at 10 feet in another session.
http://www.americanrifleman.org/articles/shades-of-gray-page-2/
Remington 125 AccuTip is marketed as 2215 fps also. Steve got 2311 fps at 10 feet.
Rifle Shooter magazine got:
http://rifleshooter.com/2012/09/300-aac-blackout-review/
Remington 125 grain OTM: heavy buffer 2208 fps, SD 6, regular buffer 2213 fps, SD 15, five shot groupings from .862″-1.469″ @ 50 yards
Remington 125 grain Accutip: heavy buffer 2298 fps, SD 25, regular buffer 2308 fps, SD 19, five shot groupings from .893″-1.092″ @ 50 yards
And for the black-tip hand-load data, Barnes says 2400 fps for a 16 inch barrel, and they mean it. Barnes is not going to put out data that goes over 55,000 psi.
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Everyone uses real rifles in the field, they don't lug around test barrels. They use ammo purchased online most of the time.
Real obtainable products is what should be tested and results used to figure PBR. Using a vel that was obtained in a test barrel isn't going to help John Q shooting his rifle in the field. Most of SSA's and Hornadys factory loads are 52000psi, SSA's Tac loads and Wilson Combats loads are higher than 52000 but not higher than 58000 in a 10 twist SPCII chambered barrel.
What I see is you are comparing the best 300blk bullet to bullets that aren't the best 6.8 or whatever. If you want to compare the best 110gr 300 bullet then compare it to the the 110 Nosler, that would be fair. The 110 black tip is the BEST bullet for the blk. The 110 Nosler is not the best bullet for the 6.8 for all things. For max point blank try a 105gr GS SP. For factory ammo it could be the 100 Nosler, 110 Nosler, 120 SST or 140 Berger.
All BS aside, you are trying to make the blk look like the best cartridge for everything, it's not. Every time you post stuff you open it up so guys can tell everyone else how it doesn't perform. All of these negative threads are doing more harm than good.
The Grendel guys would always compare a 123 Lapua to a 308 175gr SMK and say how the Grendel was better. Well they compared the best 6.5 bullet to an average performing 308 bullet and everyone saw right through it. Compare the best 264 123 Lapua to the .308 155 Lapua and the 308 smokes it.
It took a few years for them to stop trying to say it was better than a 308. It's a very good round for what it is but it doesn't best every cartridge out there.