You know they only ever built two copies of that rifle, right? Like 90% of everything JD Jones has created, it's worthless apart from it creating publicity for him. He claimed it was the largest and most powerful rifle cartridge ever created, when in fact it was neither. It's not nearly capable enough a cartridge to justify having to live with an 80-freakin-pound rifle.Originally Posted by SampsonandDelilah
Even the .300 Blackout -- the closest to a commercially successful cartridge JDJ has ever created -- makes me scratch my head because if you load it supersonic, it's a wimpy .30-cal (600 fps slower than the .30 Remington AR with the same weight bullet, and the .30 RAR also will fit in an AR15 platform) and subsonic it's near worthless because there are so few .30 rifle bullets that will expand properly at those low velocities. You'll actually get better terminal performance from most .30 rifle bullets at SSS velocities by shooting them ass-backwards, base-first, because without some serious shock wave helping the cause, the blunt end tears up more meat than the pointy end. They're also easier to stabilize when fired backwards.
With all that speaking against it, I'm dumbstruck that it ever got popular enough to be SAAMI standardized.
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