Top .300 Blackout for Hunting, Target Shooting and Self-Defense

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 5/9/2018 | T Pike

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Manufacturer are getting more resourceful, every year we get a new round that’s been declared the latest and greatest. The 6.8 SPC, the 6.5 Grendel, and this year we’ve seen the rise of the .224 Valkyrie.

Sure, some of these rounds don’t completely fail. Their cult status lets them keep living a sort of half-life – but most of them have the shelf life of freshly baked bread.

One round that hasn’t failed is the 300 Blackout. In fact, it’s simply grown and grown in popularity. The round was introduced at the best time possible!

If you’re not into the details, here some top picks for best .300 Blackout Ammo:

Role	Name	Grain
Best Plinking/Training	Magtech AAC Blackout	123gn
Best Suppressed/Subsonic	Sellier & Bellot Subsonic	200gn
Best Supersonic	Barnes Vor-Tx	110gn
Best Home Defense	Fiocchi SST	125gn

While initially designed for a military RFI (Rapid Fielding Initiative) the civilian market accepted it quickly. The 300 Blackout functions perfectly in an AR-15 platform with hardly any changes, this makes it inexpensive to adopt and easy to test out.

The fact that the 300 Blackout is such a versatile round its best to look at its purpose.

1. The Best For Plinking/Shooting/Training – Magtech First Defense
300 Blackout is slowly becoming a more affordable round. It may be nowhere near as cheap as 223 or 7.62×39, but the price has been dropping constantly. It was initially near a buck a round, and at that price all you’ll hear while shooting is ka-ching, ka-ching ka-ching. Read the rest of the .300 Blackout for hunting ammo here.

[Okieshooter]

I have a 7.5 inch AR 15 pistol with SIG arm brace in .300 Blackout loaded and ready with 110 grain Barnes in my home for defense plus it also functions as a deer and hog hunting gun.

[backwoods-engineer]

What velocity do you get out of that barrel / ammo combo?

[Okieshooter]

I get about 2050 FPS with the Barnes factory load. Their black tip bullet is designed to open up down to 1300 FPS so according to my ballistic program it is good out to 325 yds.