Guns & Shooting
300 blackout for deer hunting?
1/13/16 @ 11:33 PM
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I have a friend that uses a .300 on his "brush" stand (max 50 yard shot). He and I also both have 6.8's as our main hunting rifle. There is no doubt left when you hit a deer with the 6.8 - it's going down hard.
Mine is a Stag 7H that puts 3 Hornady SST's in a 3/4" circle at 100 yards on the sled. More accurate than I'll ever be...
I'm NOT shooting a .300 Blackout, I'm shooting a .25/45 Sharps upper. It spits an 87 grain pointed soft point bullet at 2,950 feet per second out of the 18 inch barrel. And yes, this was checked with my chronograph set up 10 feet in front of the gun, with five shot average. That's close to .25-06 performance out of an AR platform.
Formerly Steve @ G & S
We mounted a Redfield 3x9 Accu-Plex scope on Dan's rifle today. Inside of three shots, we had it shooting 1.25" groups using factory ammo. I'm thinking that with a little tinkering of the loads, I can get it shooting a little tighter than that even. This should be a pretty good rifle out to 300 yards on whitetail size animals...
And the price wasn't all that bad!
Formerly Steve @ G & S
A friend of mine just bought a Sharps .25-45 upper. I built an Anderson stripped lower and built it. Putting the upper on makes for one danged fine looking AR rifle that should kill deer out to 300 yards....
It's a fine piece of hunting equipment that should be interesting to shoot in a couple of days....
Formerly Steve @ G & S
Ditto,
Actually, ammo is quite readily available through Sharps Rifle Company and pretty reasonably priced. You can buy "blemished" ammo for $19.99 for a box of 20 or $25.45 for the clean, factory stuff.
So as long as you plan accordingly and keep a box or two in stock, you're never out! You just have to buy online.
Formerly Steve @ G & S
If you reload then the 25/45 wouldn't be a bad option but if you only buy factory loads good luck finding them and be ready to pay a pretty penny for them. Other options that require different bolts in addition to the barrel would be the .264LWS 6.5 Grindel (same round with a different name) 6.8SPC. There are other's but these are the most common ones but combined they're probably not 1/10th as popular as the 300 black out.
I just found out today about the .25-45 Sharps cartridge. With this caliber, you simply change the barrel, it uses the same bolt carrier group and magazines. With an 87 grain, it develops 3,000 fps at the muzzle with 1,739 ft./lbs. of energy.
Check it out...
Formerly Steve @ G & S
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