![]() ![]() Jist of it was trying to determine the 'quietest' powder I currently have in stock & we felt that it was Alliant Unique. I held another experiment around this same time that I won't drag you through the gritty details of. Maybe those will work too but as they say, 'go big or go home'.Īt nearly 1.7" long if anything was going to tumble coming out of my rifle, by God these puppies were! NOT the tactical bullet, they are shorter. Finding that stability depends on the length of the bullet I got the longest bullets I could find, the Berger 230gr hybrid target. ![]() I got my grubby paws on a few & built up a load similar to the first one but without a replenishable supply I began looking for another bullet. As fortune would have it about that time they became unavailable. One in particular was very thorough having around a dozen pictures of deer with oblong exit wounds. My reading on the subject lead me to the concept of tumbling, or the lack therof in several articles. For the record, I know about Lehigh defence & Outlaw state now, however at the time I did not. The 220 SMK is a fine bullet for punching paper but everything I saw from my own experiments & reading lead me to believe I needed to find another bullet for hunting or defence. I would imagine one could substitute the SMK for an Amax & be dang close with a little work, however I never did.Īfter I had my first pratice load I began wondering about terminal performance. It's a fantastic practice load that mimics the performance of the Remington yellow & green box subs with less report while assuring no sonic crack. Using Bullseye here gave me a ridiculously clean burning load & one which meters through my powder dropper (a Lee perfect) with almost no variance. I have had no signs of trouble in MY rifle. I worked it out using cast lead at first & switched to a jacketed projectile once I was convinced it was safe. All I can say is I've fired plenty of these & see that no harm is being done. This flies in the face of what we as reloaders are told is safe. I'm going to place an extra disclaimer for my first load. The report silenced or not, is noticably quieter & most of the loads are far cleaner burning than factory loads.Īll information I'm going to post is from my AAC Micro seven, YHM Phantom installed. Things like using nearly half the powder charge compared to your typical powders for use in gas guns. ![]() I learned several other advantages along the way. The primary reason for going on this adventure is most factory subsonic rounds gain just enough speed in a bolt action to go sonic, leaving a tell tale crack. I am not a professional ballistics guy, just an avid reloader that likes to tinker. Use common sense, don't blow yourself up & I did not stay in a Holiday Inn last night. The usual disclaimer applies, blah blah blah. At that point I decided to go it alone & start experimenting from basically, scratch. I searched the internet high & low for information coming up for the most part, empty handed. This combination seems to be the least covered area of Blackout reloading as I discovered a couple years ago. In almost 2 years of Blackout ownership, I've tinkered around with several combinations of fast pistol powders & a variety of heavy projectiles. ![]()
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