BrianK

I know I don't understand the way the left thinks (pure evil). But this is not that. It involves 300BLK vs 300Ham'r vs .308 Win. There is a review of the Wilson 300 Ham'r in the latest Firearms News and In it the author basically states that the 300Ham'r is superior to the 300 BLK and if it had come out forst the 300BLK would be nonexistent today. He bases it only on velocity and ft/lbs. Heck, going by that POF makes an Ar15 in .308 Win that will wi[e the floor with the Ham'r. I built my 300BLK because it could do a credible job at supersonic and still do subsonic. The author admits the Ham'r doesn't do subsonic well. I'm at a loss to understand the superiority of the Ham'r if it doesn't do subsonic. It clearly wouldn't work for me. Or should I go back to my prepubescents days when I compared cartridges based on ft/lbs and velocity with little understanding of anything else? Like what they can be used for? I hope I'm explaining myself adequately. I don't think I'm a fan boy for anything, but I see what will work for me and select the cartridge based on what it will do. Heck, I even use cartridges from the late 1800s because they do what I want. I think the author of the article is full of crap. But I don't doubt that the 300 Ham'r is right for the use some folks will put it to. But superior? So how does it do subsonic? And does it just sip powder to do what it does? That was another reason I liked 300BLK, it uses little powder to get 'er done.

That is slicker than snot! I was laughing my ass off for the first few seconds. Would I want one, sure, I'd take one if it was given to me. I wouldn't want to pay for it or feed it.

I'm shooting .22 from the '70s and yes, it works great, llke the day I bought it.

We make very little in this country anymore. What a shame. We finance our enemies military build up to defeat us. PETA types... Yeah, they'd rather but the meat grown in plastic rather than get the stuff harvested by themselves. Of course I jest, but that was in an irate letter to the editor many years ago by a moron. Of course a deer will run off as it bleeds out. With what I think could be coming you just might skewer one in your backyard.

Welcome to the forum. I can't help you but as you've already seen, others can and will help.

Soon after getting the Exomag and while waiting for Maine to open up xbow season I joined an archery club to make use of their wooded field course. It was super easy. The velocity of the xbow meant minimal trajectory compensation. I don't remember anything that wouldn't have been a kill shot. It was super simple to make the shots. Ranges were typical vertical bow range. Some folks think they have firing distance like a firearm and they don't. One shot, that's it within typical bow range, so make it good. They are slow to load and ungainly in the forest. When one lets the limbs go forward there had better not be something in the way or you have a broken collar bone.

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I think the accuracy is a characteristic for Excalibur. I have the Exomag and have had it for decades. When I demoed it for a vertical bow user and he nearly soiled his undies due to how good I was with it immediately. Need to be careful and pick a different spot on the target so as not to split a shaft. I ordered a mess of strings and have yet to replace the first after many hundreds of shots. I've heard of some xbows that need a new string after much fewer shots. I bought mine to take advantage of the (at the time) proposed xbow season. Then Maine put us in with firearms and not bow season, so I gave up the idea of using it and stayed with a firearm. Now decades later I can't hunt at all. MtnMike, one thing to be aware of with a crossbow is that the shaft may come out the far side of a deer and still have dangerous velocity. You mentioned a HOA and to me that means people being around. YIKES! Just something to consider.

Minor part... Just ordered a H&K style 3 lug adapter for the new barrel when it arrives.

Well said, good thread. Even in peacetime we lose soldiers and lots of folks don't realize that. I was on hazardous duty, yet never served in a combat zone, and we lost soldiers. I was once snidely asked by a coworker why I never took part in a public display for Memorial Day. He didn't get it and I told him that for me every day is Memorial Day. How does one escape the folks one knew who are now dead?

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Yes, they are loud. I have an Excalibur also and my neighbor 100 yards away can hear it when I shoot. But they're not as loud as a firearm. The first time I shot it at a friends house I thought he was going to poop himself. He shoots a vertical bow and he couldn't believe the accuracy. Me? I didn't know it was something exceptional. Buy I soon learned to put the arrow where I wanted it and not to shoot a group or I could split an arrow.

Yes. I wonder what goes through the minds of folks who think they're going to hit the road with nowhere to go and the fuel pumps also not working. I happen to be rural and will just hunker down, can't do anything else, but even when I was more able that was my plan. 100% correct, no aerial resupply for anyone but maybe the folks who could be the enemy. I put nothing beyond our go'vermin and what they would do. If I was still able and had to go cross country it would be on foot or by ATV trails and I'd bring my 5# AR and a bunch of ammo for it. I'd also be the unseen mouse and try not to engage anyone. Basically the same rules for no engagements when carrying today as a concealed carrier. One wins every engagement that is dodged. I would definitely NOT be looking for trouble. I also won't be looking for trouble when hunkered down at the homestead. But won't shy away from it if it's a serious issue. It depends on circumstances. I'll help good folks if I'm able.

It appears there are lots of old SOBs on this forum. Glad to make your acquaintances and to be another. I know my land and they don't. Shots are short, it's heavily wooded Maine and I practice that as often as possible in USPSA competition and was trained in Quick Kill (just google it). I have no possibility of surviving long term but I'll give it hell!

Like Magwa my warrior days are over. I'm going nowhere. So I'll grab the suppressed 300BLK handgun I recently built and hunker down. At least that's my plan now and in fact as I write it's next to the bed 15' away. Like everything though it's subject to change.

Sorry, I can't get a link because Windows has hijacked my computer for an update and when that happens the kindergarten programmers that do the updates think my computer belongs to them. I hate Windows! Basically my computer has been down for 24 hours. Back now. I still hate Windows! I've been using the ETS magloader for rifle mags for years of competition. I can load a days worth of mags, 30 rounders in minutes. I've used it for 9mm, 300BLK, and 5.56. Like most loaders (not all) the rounds need to be in boxes with the base up. No specific box though. My boxes are Dillon, but since I case gauge all of my 9mm ammo 100 at a time with the appropriate case gauge (shockbottle) it's no big deal to put them in the boxes. It goes really fast. It also works with factory ammo boxes. The Maglula pictured above works really great too for 5.56 and 300BLK, is much smaller, is less frail, and doesn't require special boxing. It's not as fast as the ETS, but I always have it in my range bag. Maglula makes really good stuff! Love their 10/22 loader/unloader too! ETS also makes a loader for handgun mags but I never got mine to work and no longer have it. I gave it away to someone who also couldn't get it to work. I was loading 9mm M&P mags, he was loading 9mm Glock mags.

Be advised, not AR10. Ordered a Volquartsen carbon fiber barrel and fore-end for my 10/22 Charger SBR today. The accuracy of the finished SBR was depressing. It wasn't horrible, but for me only accurate guns are interesting and I didn't consider it accurate. My build met the goal I had for it, the smallest rifle I could build. But better accuracy would have been nice. I do use it for Steel Challenge and it's great for that. Hopefully this barrel with pic' rail attached to the barrel will do what I want. I'll know in 3-6 weeks since everyone is out of stock. I'll need to attach a 3 lug quick attach adapter (HK?) then it's done. Anyway, it's a standard 3 lug adapter whatever it's called. I might even have a spare in parts. I need to check. Initially I wasn't going to order the new barrel due to the $. But someone convinced me. I want to be happy with what I built. Yes, it'll make the take down SBR quite a bit larger (longer) when in pieces. See far below. The pistol grip folds today, that's an old picture. https://www.opticsplanet.com/volquartsen-firearms-lightweight-threaded-rifle-barrel-and-forend-ruger-22-charg.html

Congrats on a good build! FWIW, the lens does make the barrel seem REALLY long, but that's photography.

I think you'll like it Sisco (from what I've read about it). It's basically the HP v 2.0 with everything fixed that folks paid big bux to get fixed in years past. I wish mine didn't bite me. But I'll lose too much $ to sell mine, buy new, and start all over again. The things that were wrong with the HP doomed it to newer designs and Browning didn't make changes. SA did, and if you're going to make a "new" handgun why not fix it from the get go? Back slaps to SA! If you get one let us know how you like it. IMO the HP has the best ergonomics of any handgun ever made. I'd like to know if SA perfected it.

The info I have on the SA HP is that it's superior (out of the box) to the original. No mag safety to remove, reduced or totally missing hammer bite, I wish I had one but I'm not going to sell my HP from '73 to get one. I had lots of work done to mine, sights, trigger, NP3 coating, Bar-Sto barrel. Mine hasn't had a mag safety for decades. If I was thinking of a HP today it would be the SA version w/o a doubt. That would also put some time between acquisitions.

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Not out of an AR10, but out of a .308 Encore handgun I shot 55grain bullets with a sabot. I doubt they would feed in a semi-auto. The powder was extremely fast for .308 and blast was incredible. Powder was nothing anyone would ever use in a normal .308/7.62. I remember 3600 fps. Accuracy was "mehh", memory tells me 3" @ 100 yards. For me that's not very good. I discussed it with the sabot manufacturer and he told me that was all I could expect. End of project. Is it Speer that made (still makes?) 100 grain "plinkers". I've shot those out of a bolt action, I didn't have a chronograph at the time so don't know the velocity. As already mentioned light bullets are a short range affair or mortar them in. I did contact Speer to ask about max' velocity for the bullet and was told "as fast as you can drive them". The jacket was a barely formed cup and super thick.

😀 I have an uncle in Toms River. You folks definitely are fighting the current! I told my family that they're absolutely welcome to come up, but bye, bye, we're gone, you're not holding me in NJ! They see what I have and what I can buy in the LGS and they have open jaws. They can't believe what freedom actually means.

You don't need to stay at the low end, just find out what pressure signs are and understand that some pressure signs can be seen, except they can also be false. I'm thinking of primers here. Some are soft and hard so they can lead one astray. That's why I asked if you had a mic that reads to the 1/10000th. Brass will start to flow when we get into the range of danger. Mark a case on 2 sides of the head, measure. Then fire and measure again. There is a point at which one backs off. I haven't pushed pressure in so long that I forgot specifics. But it's online somewhere. But I'll also state that it's not a bad thing to stay away from high end loads. I go even further and severely download at times. It saves the wrist, shoulder, powder, and less powder burning in the barrel helps lengthen barrel life. Personally, (did I already write this?) if I need more ft/lbs I get a bigger cartridge rather than push pressure and velocity. I didn't always think that way (young and foolish!) but today I do. Thank god I never blew anything up but I came close once. Yes, it was my fault, but it wasn't at the same time. I'll explain. On the list of never do this... I once ordered 1k of .224 bullets. there were maybe 800 in similar packaging, but the rest were in slightly different packaging. I thought nothing of it. My test loads were showing 2x the number of holes in the target with 2 distinct groups and when I checked the brass something was definitely wrong. Unbelievable pressure signs! No mic required to see that the case heads had expanded. It was a clearly safe load that I had loaded, yet it wasn't. So I backed up and checked things when I got home. Everything checked out, yet I still had those unbelievable pressure signs. After scratching my head for a while, it made no sense! What I didn't check were the bullets and that was the "Ahh Ha!" moment. I measured them and they were .228" for some off the wall .22 centerfire that was long out of production (.22 Savage?), but they were used to fill my order. I missed the fine print on the boxes. I was swaging them down .004 in the barrel. The cores and jackets were separating and that gave me 2 groups on target. Other than a broken extractor the gun and operator were fine. FWIW it was a Ruger Mini-14. They make one very strong firearm. That was maybe 45 years ago. Today everything is suspect and I check everything I am able to. Pressure is our friend but it can get out of hand in a nanosecond. One good thing about ARs, the action is extremely strong. But you still have the right attitude to treat it with respect. Just curious, where are you in NJ? Only in general, I'm not looking for your address. That's where I lived 40+ years ago before I moved to a free state, and still have family down there. You folks have to swim upstream in rapids and waterfalls to have decent firearms. I got out before the madness really got going there. I had a secret clearance from the military and when I got out got my FOID in a very short time and I got permits to buy handguns in a day (seriously), so I didn't see what others saw. I went to buy a stereo and needed 2 forms of ID for them to take my check. I had one. The salesman rattled off a bunch of IDs and the last one he mentioned was the FOID, "But no one has those.", he stated. I pulled mine out and he looked it over. He'd never seen one before. I knew then to get the hell out of NJ. That happened at Gem Electronics in Paramus. I was raised in Ramsey and after getting out of the military lived in Pequannock for a time. The only reason I go back are for funerals.

FWIW, I'm pretty sure he mentioned 9mm. Sure if he loads only "normal" bottleneck cartridges he'll be OK, as long as he doesn't load subsonic with fast powders such as the 300BLK. I just assume everyone gets more guns and cartridges and goes more in depth. But yes, not everyone is me asking, "What if?" and then go out and make it happen. One of my subsonic loads is in .223 and uses just a few grains of Green Dot under an 80 grain bullet. No, it doesn't cycle the action of an AR. Another subsonic load in the Contender pushes a 35gr bullet and that uses even less powder. I have no idea just how deep he's going to get into the hobby. I never thought I'd be doing what I do today 55 years ago. Whatever.