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Originally Posted by Oakburner
is it just another one of those "we created it to market it like it is special, but it's just an advertising ploy?"

When it first came out, or when I first heard about it, I thought it was going to be an incredible super powerful, quiet, ultra fast, kill game and enemies at 5 miles type of cartridge.

Now...I don't hear much about it.

I am interested in those of you that have shot it and your thoughts about how it fits into the "gun calibers who's who" list and if it belongs there?


Even when it "first came out" anyone who thought the 300 was going to be super powerful, fast, or a long range round obviously wasn't paying attention. It was never marketed or hyped that way by anyone who knew what was what.

Just like any other round, within it's niche, yeah it's special. Outside of that, not so much.

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Originally Posted by rost495
LOL< the OP was making a joke.... I don't know for sure, but I am wondering, at 5 miles, could the bullet even penetrate anything? Espeically with a piss poor BC and started sub sonic?

Honestly its getting hard to hit things at times once you pass 1000, my longest ones have been around 1860 yards, hits that is on targets and having groups at that range. Thats barely over a mile... and it was not with a small round... LOL


I was thinking the vacuum of outer space. If mankind doesn't destroy itself first, someday we will colonize the moon, asteroids, and beyond.

At 5 miles the bullet could still be travelling at the original muzzle velocity, maybe faster, depending on local gravitational fields.



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Dang, you were out of the box by far on that one... had not thought of that....


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Subsonic it has some nice features for supressed use. Supersonic it's a .30 M1 carbine on steroids, which is hardly a bad thing smile

It uses the same bolt & magazines as a .223 So logistically, it's a neat deal.


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The idea of a 8-10" barreled .300 BLK with a suppressor fascinates me.


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Originally Posted by BarryC
The idea of a 8-10" barreled .300 BLK with a suppressor fascinates me.

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Originally Posted by rost495
Dang, you were out of the box by far on that one... had not thought of that....


Many (50-ish) years ago I took a quiz that I think was created by NASA. The question was, given a list of items, which three would you take if stranded in space.

One of the correct answers was a handgun. The reasoning was you could use it as a means of propulsion. It is the only answer and item I remember.




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Thats wild. Would likley have not thought of that.

That said, no oxygen in space? Will powder burn?

I guess something has to, for how far we have gotten, but are they adding O2 to fuel to get it to burn?

I'm afraid this is getting way past my pay grade. LOL


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Gunpowder has its own oxidizer - no atmospheric oxygen needed.

I remember I didn't choose the gun as one of my three choices.



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Cool. I don't get into the why or how that much, just it works or it doesn't. STrange how different minds work.

Like a chrono and low readings ES/SD... I don't much care, I want to know ballpark speed. The lowest ES/SD that I've had have produced some of the worst groups.

I see how small (or not) the group is on a target at my max distance.( 1800 plus yards target was a 55 gallon drum. LOL. I was super glad to eventually drop 3 shots into under 12 inches there for sure)


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