Is the 300 Whisper and 300 Blackout the same?
300 AAC Blackout is a Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers’ Institute (SAAMI) standard cartridge. The . 300 Whisper is a Commission Internationale Permanente pour l’Epreuve des Armes a’ Feu Portatives (CIP) standard cartridge.
What is a 300 Blackout whisper?
300 Whisper, a CIP standard, is one of many cartridges designed to shoot heavier bullets (200–250 grains) at subsonic velocities. 300 Whisper is also known as . 300 Fireball or . 300-221. The 300 AAC Blackout is the most successful 30 caliber cartridge with these design parameters and been widely accepted whereas the .
What is a 300 Blackout round equivalent to?
300 Blackout and 7.62×39 are pretty similar as well when using similar weight bullets. In fact, they’re both roughly comparable to the . 30-30 Winchester.
Can you use 300 Blackout 300 Whisper?
What’s Safe to Shoot To keep things simple, think of it this way: You can shoot 300 Whisper in a 300 Blackout rifle. You should probably avoid shooting 300 Blackout in a 300 Whisper rifle because of the simple fact that the Whisper round is a wildcat cartridge.
Can a 300 Blackout shoot 300 AAC?
The 300 AAC Blackout is a SAAMI-standardized 300-221. Hornady states that any rifle chambered for the 300 AAC Blackout can shoot their 300 Whisper ammunition, which is made within 300 AAC Blackout specs. The reloading dies for these two cartridges are often the same.
What is a whisper round?
SSK Industries. The Whisper family of firearm cartridges is a group of wildcat cartridges developed in the early 1990s by J.D. Jones of SSK Industries. The Whisper Family was developed as a line of accurate, multi-purpose cartridges using relatively heavy rifle bullets for a given caliber in subsonic loads.
Whats stronger 7.62 or 300 Blackout?
With bullets upward of 150/154 grains, the 7.62×39 mm’s muzzle velocities best those of the . 300 Blackout by more than 200 fps at times (especially with “hotter” foreign-made loads). However, the increased BCs of the bullets used in the latter negate much of that velocity difference.
Is all 300 Blackout subsonic?
Performance and Ballistics In its standard form as a subsonic round, 300 Blackout most closely resembles the 7.62 x 39mm round first used in the SKS and AK-47 rifles of the former Soviet Union. In its subsonic loading it has been compared with both subsonic 9mm and 45 ACP.
Why is 300 AAC called blackout?
The . 300 BLK has its origins in the . 300 Whisper, a round designed…as the name suggests…to be shot suppressed. The case is formed by stretching out the case of a 5.56mm NATO and trimming it down slightly.