There was some “tuning” to get everything to work reliably on the AR platform, but he was the first. The 300 Whisper subsonic rounds were designed to be fired suppressed, and the high velocity rounds were meant to be fired un-suppressed. Take a look at the original concept JD Jones came up with through his company SSK, and you will see that in fact he did create the first 300 Whisper functioning AR-15/M16 equipped with a 12-14” long suppressor, which no doubt provided enormous amounts of back pressure to cycle the round. Theoretically, it’s great to have a hard hitting subsonic round that maintains very good accuracy with the 240gr Sierra Match King, but the sub-sonic 300 Blackout round we stuff into AR-15s will not actually cycle and function without a suppressor or funky pistol-length gas system. So yeah, I get the round and its background, and I’ve shot it extensively. It was something new to sell and they did just that in a big way. AAC did have outstanding marketing, and after begin purchased by Remington/Freedom Arms Group/DPMS, that marketing power increased exponentially.
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It’s really not my legal decision to make, but it does seem pretty odd that in most cases you can use the dies interchangeably. Were these two great ideas conceived separately and independently? JD Jones did create the round first, and the Blackout followed after that. 308 round in it, and it’s powered with about as much powder as I put pepper on my salad. 300 AAC Blackout? I am really really quite confused by the widespread infatuation with the cartridge, and I really don’t get it even after owning and shooting the round.įirst let me say I do get the idea of the cartridge, and in fact I used to shoot the original JD Jone’s SSK 300 Whisper that AAC copied as the 300 Blackout–well, that they allegedly copied.
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Why was that funny, or in this case, why is everyone so nuts over. Okay, so I feel like the guy in the room who doesn’t get the joke.