Thankfully, my indoor range, of which I am a monthly member, is open for 2 hours a day for shooting with no public access. It’s a fairly inconvenient time, 10am to 12pm, but it’s open, and that let me start out some new loads for my 2 AR pistols in .300 AAC Blackout,
There are no projectiles available at my favorite vendors, and so I tried a couple of new places and to my surprise I received my orders likety split. First is a 120 gr Copper Coated round spire point (almost a flat nose), and the other is a Hornady (bulk pack, unlabeled) 110gr Nose. Since I am range restricted I don’t see any sense wasting my Lapua 220gr Scenario L bullets or my true Hornady 150gr Interbond bullets in an 18 yd (maybe 20 to the wall) range, shooting pukas in paper, so I opted for light and cheap. I’ve never tried anything this short and light in my Blackout rifles before.
I recently completed the conversion of a decent quantity of Speer nickel plated .223 Rem from a LEO range, and thought they’d look sweet with my little bitty projectiles. I also opted to try IMR 4198 12.4gr and 12.0gr powder, as Sierra lists a number of good loads for light projectiles with this powder. In the end, these bullets sure look pretty...but that doesn’t count in a shooting range. They failed to cycle from either my PSA 8.5” barrel or my BCA 10.5” barrel. Also had some feeding issues, which I need to try again to determine whether it was a magazine or a profile issue.
While I didn’t take any pics, I also loaded 10 rounds of this same case and primer mix (Speer nickel and Sellior & Bellot Small Rifle) with the Hornady 110gr RN over 13.8gr VV N110 @1.845” (another Sierra load), and these fed, fired, cycled, and locked back both rifles. I couldn’t have been happier...so I immediately cleaned those magical cases and reloaded them, this time with 13.8gr N110, and the same primers. I finally have some Small Rifle Magnum primers, but I doubt that I’ll even try them with these light bullets.
There are no projectiles available at my favorite vendors, and so I tried a couple of new places and to my surprise I received my orders likety split. First is a 120 gr Copper Coated round spire point (almost a flat nose), and the other is a Hornady (bulk pack, unlabeled) 110gr Nose. Since I am range restricted I don’t see any sense wasting my Lapua 220gr Scenario L bullets or my true Hornady 150gr Interbond bullets in an 18 yd (maybe 20 to the wall) range, shooting pukas in paper, so I opted for light and cheap. I’ve never tried anything this short and light in my Blackout rifles before.
I recently completed the conversion of a decent quantity of Speer nickel plated .223 Rem from a LEO range, and thought they’d look sweet with my little bitty projectiles. I also opted to try IMR 4198 12.4gr and 12.0gr powder, as Sierra lists a number of good loads for light projectiles with this powder. In the end, these bullets sure look pretty...but that doesn’t count in a shooting range. They failed to cycle from either my PSA 8.5” barrel or my BCA 10.5” barrel. Also had some feeding issues, which I need to try again to determine whether it was a magazine or a profile issue.
While I didn’t take any pics, I also loaded 10 rounds of this same case and primer mix (Speer nickel and Sellior & Bellot Small Rifle) with the Hornady 110gr RN over 13.8gr VV N110 @1.845” (another Sierra load), and these fed, fired, cycled, and locked back both rifles. I couldn’t have been happier...so I immediately cleaned those magical cases and reloaded them, this time with 13.8gr N110, and the same primers. I finally have some Small Rifle Magnum primers, but I doubt that I’ll even try them with these light bullets.
