someguy2800
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The .300 Blackout fills not one single performance envelope that interests me. I’m unimpressed with a weak sauce .30 caliber carbine round, and don’t care one bit about how well it performs when suppressed. Full power rounds also suppress more than satisfactorily enough to be hearing safe and not spook game. So why bother with shooting a .30 caliber bullet with a rainbow trajectory?
Now that I know a loaded .300 Blackout will chamber and get a false headspace in a 5.56mm chamber it not only fills no need, but is also a potential hazard.
Is it not a safety concern when a poorly designed wildcat cartridge specifically made to share a platform with the parent cartridge will chamber and false headspace on the projectile in a chamber cut for the parent cartridge of different caliber? Particularly considering that the same magazines are utilized and can easily be mixed up introducing this poorly designed cartridge into a chamber not designed for it.
I call that a problem, and one that is fairly caliber specific here due to two cartridges sharing detachable magazines for the same model(s) of weapon.
This issue could have been avoided if more diligence had been paid to the cartridge design and loaded round dimensions.
Have you ever shot a 300 blackout?