40 is better than 10, Albert....but good luck, Blue Dot is a great option, I have BD loads for 223, 22BR and Fireball. All are excellent, quiet and cool, perfect for sage ratting.
Ken -- as SF says, they will not. The gassing runs out by the time you hit the gas port, I tried it and the bolt just barely flashes a little brass before it reseats.
I suppose it would be "possible" to have a custom AR, mill/swiss cheese the bolt carrier down to next to nothing, have a lightweight return spring. I've been thinking about doing that with a "parts gun" or pile of parts, also thinking about similar work in order to make a Fireball AR. But it's not that much of a priority. First I need to build an AR that is worthy of the title "Varminter." Not there yet.
I knew John Noveske pretty well, before he manage to be killed in a car accident here locally...
He use to shoot some of my Blue Dot loads. and talk about them when we ran into each other at our local range...
He ended up tuning one of his ARs, that WOULD cycle the bolt on an AR.. it wouldn't rapid fire real well...
but if you weren't trying to rapid fire it, it worked pretty well...
Noveske was pretty good at making an AR do a lot of things...
