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Re: .300 Blackout???
« Reply #30 on: April 29, 2012, 11:19:30 PM »
The manufacturer's part number is  AACO102602.
A Google search gets many pages of dealers willing to take a deposit.
The best price I saw was ~ $325 shipped to your FFL.
The latest status I see shows end of May.
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Re: .300 Blackout???
« Reply #31 on: May 09, 2012, 02:18:20 AM »
"Savage was going to offer a 300 Blackout rifle, but they said they could not get good accuracy out of subsonic loads, so they have dropped it. "
" This exhaustive testing left us quite unsatisfied with the accuracy we were able to get from the subsonic loads in this chambering. Accuracy with the lighter, faster loads in this caliber was actually quite good. "


"Savage used 1:10 twist and 20 inch barrels - about the two worst decisions imaginable. 1:10 is not stable with 220 and 20 inch makes subsonic go transonic." (R Silvers for AAC)


If Silvers information is correct, Savage had a tumbling bullet going subsonic between the muzzle and the target.  I think the surprise would be if you hit a target.
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Re: .300 Blackout???
« Reply #32 on: May 13, 2012, 12:43:41 AM »
Patience please; what's the difference between a .300 Blackout and a .300 Whisper?
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Re: .300 Blackout???
« Reply #33 on: May 13, 2012, 04:23:48 AM »

My understanding:

30-221, 300Whisper, and 300BLK are an evolutionary set.
Each step is changed enough for patent purposes, (get or avoid), and yet similar enough to be interchangeable. The last 2 have an owner/sponsor that advises against using the other 2 "for safety reasons". Since the differences are in the shoulders and the shoulders are tiny, Handloaders can swap brass and load data between the 3.


Right?

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Re: .300 Blackout???
« Reply #34 on: May 13, 2012, 04:57:29 AM »
I'm not so sure about the load data part, (and I don't know if you can get anyone to say "yes" to that one... :-X ) but it seems to me that the brass could be interchanged.  My research has led me to that same conclusion. . .but I am by no means an expert!!  From what I read, one gun manufacturer was chambering their rifles so they could shoot both Wisper and AAC.  I believe it was in a Guns & Ammo article.  That would lead one to think that load data and brass would be pretty close IMHO.
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Re: .300 Blackout???
« Reply #35 on: May 13, 2012, 08:08:08 PM »
perhaps a barrel in 327 federal? than might be fun.
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Re: .300 Blackout???
« Reply #36 on: May 29, 2012, 01:45:20 PM »
From the AAC rep on the 300BLK website
Handi-rifles

"Production is now scheduled for July. All of the tooling is ready but the barrels - well as you know, there is a rush on barrels apparently due to the election."
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