About ready to give up on 300blk...

[Zeus]

Meh, to each their own... From an LE perspective, shits getting worst, not better. Seems every other long gun in a bad guys hands these days is a 7.62x39. That round is no joke on the home front and I hear it sucks equally everywhere if you are on the receiving end. 5.56 has it's place and when you have an unobstructed target, just about any round will do with proper shot placement within it's effective range. However, we don't live in a perfect world and this little marble is getting smaller by the second. Point is, engagements will most likely continue to get closer with more shit in the way. 300 BLK having two to three times the ass behind it (CONUS engagement) gives a lot of pluses in my opinion. And after putting countless rounds of 5.56 vs. 300 blk through body armor, "bullet proof" glass, and countless other barriers, I've come to be a believer in the potential of this round. Ammo not quite there yet for CONUS use (nor other), but inside 200yrds I'll take it over 5.56 any day. We just need an LE/home defense round that does not over penetrate. Sure in the last class my students noted that the 150gr FMJs I was using (for class) dropped 12" at 200yrds vs. the 5.56 they were using (50 yrd zero for both), but really? It's just a different hold over. As one student noted at 200, "...that sure is wacking the hell out of the steel vs this 22 going poof!". I get the people who don't want to invest in the ammo due to current cost. The people who bash the round as not being useful either are clueless, or don't do most of their work inside 100 yards.