Tag: Blackout
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What Determines the Caliber of an AR-15?
What Determines the Caliber of an AR-15? The AR-15 was initially designed to be used specifically with a 5.56x45mm cartridge. However, due to its popularity, there is now a variety of calibers. But what determines the caliber of an AR-15 depends on what you are aiming for with this powerful rifle. Maybe you are looking…
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Hornady SUB-X 300 190gr Subsonic Blackout Ammunition
SUB-X: A Game Changer? Hornady has released their new Sub-X 190gr 300 Blackout ammunition and it is a game changer. This is a direct challenge to the Lehigh Defense 194gr Maximum Expansion load. One big difference is the price – the Hornady ammo is about half the price of the Lehigh coming in at a…
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Ballistic Advantage 10.3″ 300 BLK Video Review
Tactical Gun Review video review of the Ballistic Advantage 10.3″ 300 BLK complete upper. 300 Blackout is all the rage these days and so we decided to build up a suppressed 300 BLK SBR to use for stalk hunting wild boars here in Texas. Of course, it would also make an excellent home defense or…
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Ballistic Advantage 300 BLK 10.3″ Complete Upper
Here at TGR we are big believers in Ballistic Advantage barrels. So when I started on a new 300 Blackout build I headed over to their website to spec out a Hanson Profile barrel. Of course one of the key decisions surrounds matching the right barrel to the right handguard and gas block. That is…
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SIG SAUER Elite Performance Ammunition
SIG SAUER 124gr 9mm V-Crown® Elite Performance Ammunition was named ‘Ammunition of the Year’ at the 1st Annual Firearms Industry Choice Awards held in July. The competition was conducted at the Rockcastle Shooting Center in Kentucky and the SIG SAUER 124gr 9mm V-Crown beat out 21 different brands and calibers over three days of live-fire testing.…
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Consumer Gun Review: Daniel Defense 300 Blackout
I bought my first AR 15 in 223/556 back in Feb of 2013. I was not happy with the 223 ballistics and was soon on the pursuit for a larger caliber AR style rifle. So obviously, I started looking at the 308 caliber. However, the cost slowed me down as well as the weight (for…
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300 Blackout (300 BLK)
In case you have been living in a cave for the last several years, the 300 Blackout is the sexy new girl on the block. This article is part one of a new series on the 300 Blackout (300 BLK). While the cartridge-haters will tell you that the 300 BLK is the answer to a…
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Guns and Rotors
Wild hog hunting is all the rage. Outfitters are specializing in taking clients on hunts with night vision equipped rifles. There are hog eradication businesses with horses and packs of dogs. Heck, there are even reality television shows about hunting hogs. For quantity of hogs taken, the pinnacle is aerial shooting. Kyle Lange, of Lange…
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Leupold® Offers Reticle Calibrated for 300 AAC Blackout
BEAVERTON, Ore. — Leupold® Tactical Optics has partnered with Advanced Armament Corporation® to create a reticle calibrated to the new .300 AAC Blackout cartridge. Based on Leupold’s CM-R2™ reticle line, the 300 Blackout reticle allows operators to quickly and easily determine holdovers for both the supersonic and subsonic loadings of the new round.