![]() ![]() The rifle with a suppressor and a variety of ammo is FAR more versitile. Having that magazine of subsonic ammo in a pouch, pocket, rucksack or whatever gives you an option. You do a tac-reload and you are good to go. If time permits after the shot you can simply bend over and pick it up.īy the same token, the opposite senario can be utilized: you could have the rifle loaded with subsonic ammo for whatever purpose and encounter a situation where you need full power ammo. I see no reason to catch the ejected round, it isn't going to break me. This includes grabbing a new magazine (loaded with subsonic ammo) from a belt pouch, removing the magazine currently in the weapon with retention, inserting the new magazine. Subsonic 556 is a complex solution to a simple problem.įirst of all: In an AR15, I can do a tactical reload and rack the bolt in seconds: single digit seconds. It is quick, quiet, accurate, easy to use and handy. 22 rimfire pistol in a holster is a MUCH better solution. Not to mention subsonic and full power rounds have vastly different impact points so the user has to remember which is which and apply to correct hold over.Įven if everything goes as planned, all this manual racking of the action takes time, is unweildy, noisy and a pain in the ass.Ī suppressed. IF there is a stuck bullet waiting in the bore, the next shot is going to be more than a surprise. Then you have to manually eject the fired case and rack the action to load a full power round. As suppressed subsonics are freakin quiet, in a time of stress it may be difficult to notice a squib round. You are then taking a chance by shooting a subsonic round through a potentially dirty barrel, which can cause the bullet to stick in the bore. To switch from one ammo to another you have to rack the action and eject the live round, which then has to be picked up. Quick, versitile, nothing extra to buy, nothing to convert. You put the original mag back in and you now have full powered ammo. You switch mags (to a mag loaded with subsonic ammo) and fire that shot. You need want to fire A shot that absolutely has to be as quiet as possible. Use them at your own risk - your mileage may vary. Make sure you know what you're doing with reloading before trying these. I probably need to reduce it to 5.3 grains or so.Īll of these were shot in my Savage 10FP with 22" 1:9 barrel using a YHM 5.56 Phantom suppressor. I did some experimenting and found some other successful 223 loads, as follows: The load fizzled and I had a stuck bullet. I switched to CCI Benchrest primers - DON'T DO THIS. I tried this recipe using some Sierra 55 gr soft point boat tails and it worked fine. I called Hodgdon, and sure enough, they had some suggestions. For this reason people shooting with a silencer prefer subsonic loads, even when shooting a rifle.The Accurate S1250 subsonic 223 loads have been discussed before, but I had not seen many other recipes. As a side note, if a silencer is attached to the gun it will only suppress the muzzle-blast noise. Subsonic loads do not have this second component of noise. The noise that shooting makes has two components, the noise of the hot gases escaping the muzzle and sometimes flashing as they hit the atmosphere (muzzle blast), and in the case of supersonic loads the crack of the sonic boom as the bullet breaks the sound barrier. Most rifle loadings are all supersonic, so subsonic loads are specially down-loaded to stay below the speed of sound. In 9mm, most loading data are supersonic. All data in this caliber is subsonic but is not normally tagged with the name subsonic. Not all "subsonic" loads are noted as such in the data, because the cartridge is not capable of producing supersonic velocity. Subsonic loads refer to those whose velocity is less than the speed of sound. ![]()
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