Monday, July 06, 2020

While cleaning up and rearranging, I have had a realization:

For some things, I need to do some loading.  For some, a LOT of loading.  But I need to get this place neatened up first.

Question: anyone familiar with subsonic .223 loads?  Guy at work asked, and I've never seen anything on this(not having looked before probably having something to do with that).  Lots of "Hey, I tried this out!", but having trouble finding anything from a known source.

4 comments:

riverrider said...

hickok45 on youtube did a vid on them.

Firehand said...

I'll look it up, thanks

Dan said...

Subsonic .223 kind of defeats the purpose behind the round.....small and REALLY fast. The .223/5.56 round depends on high velocity to fragment/tumble and do damage. Slowing it down turns it into a slightly heavier version of a .22LR. There are better options for subsonic rounds like 300 blackout.

Firehand said...

More of a very light practice/small game round you can use, and with a can have it very quiet.

And yeah, I've heard some .300 B loads through a can that were quite quiet.