(Wilson Combat recently introduced a new magazine that will work with the 5.56, the Blackout, and the HAMR.) The comparison between the Blackout and HAMR is warranted because both are AR-15 compatible, and unlike the 6 mm ARC and 6.5 Grendel, which require a new barrel, bolt, and magazine, the conversion to Blackout or HAMR only requires a new barrel and magazine. As manufacturers get a handle on the current ammunition situation, you can expect more loads from more manufacturers to follow. However, Wilson Combat offers 17 loads for the HAMR and since the cartridge was recently approved by SAMMI (Sporting Arms and Ammunition Institute) South Ballistic Research (SBR) now offers two. 300 Blackout and the only thing they sell for the. A major online retailer lists 58 loads for the. 300 HAMR is that ammunition options are significantly less than with the. It shouldn’t be.Īs of now, the downside with the. Unfortunately, because Wilson’s primary motivation for the HAMR’s development was for hunting, that’s the context the. 31-caliber (.300 Blackout and 7.62x39 mm) AR-15 compatible cartridges lack the ability to drive well-constructed, heavy bullets fast enough for enhanced wounding. This is partly because other AR-15 cartridges use smaller and lighter bullets that lack the mass to deal with intermediate barriers. In fact, as far as the AR-15 is concerned, it might be the best big game hunting/tactical cartridge currently available. However, from a supersonic standpoint, where rifles are used to stop big critters or bad guys, the. 300 Blackout is the best offering available in the AR-15 platform. 30-30 Winchester.įrom a subsonic standpoint, the. 300 Blackout could do-equal the ballistics of the. The HAMR on the other hand was designed to do what many imagined the. The short Blackout case was designed to allow for the use of the long and heavy bullets that made it the subsonic wonder cartridge it is.
300 Blackout uses a much shorter (1.368-inch) case compared to the HAMR’s 1.603-inch case. Well, I know what you’re thinking, that sounds like a. Nothing satisfied him, so being the industrious fellow he is, Bill decided to create his own. He started working on the hog population at his ranch and in the process tried every AR-15 cartridge he could find, including the. Though Bill is mostly known for his work with the 1911 pistol and participation in competitive handgun shooting, Bill is a serious hunter. While all this was going on, Bill Wilson, the founder of Wilson Combat, was establishing a ranch near Cuthand, TX, and it was plumb overrun with feral hogs. 223 Remington/5.56 NATO rifle with disastrous results. 300 Blackout loads could chamber and fire in a. Also, some shooters learned the hard way that certain.
30-30 Winchester, hunters soon found out that was not the case. Though it was often touted that its supersonic ammunition was the equal of the. The cartridge is still moderately popular but for the most part, the newness has worn off.
In fact, it could be argued that the current fascination with subsonic shooting and suppressors was started by the. 30-caliber cartridges, designed to offer a level of performance unobtainable with the. 300 HAMR (right) are both AR-15 compatible. 300 Blackout rifles and ammunition fast enough. More importantly, the Blackout was a fantastic subsonic cartridge, just as J.D. 30-caliber bullet, and it delivered decent supersonic performance. It had a very cool name, it worked well in the AR-15, it fired a. 300 Blackout had several things going for it. 300 Blackout, and the shooting world went crazy for it. Remington, in association with Advanced Armament Association, tweaked a wildcat cartridge known as the. It made some waves and still has a following, but, with apologies to Jim Morrison, it just couldn’t “break on through to the other side.” However, about 10 years later another cartridge did. The first legitimate attempt at this was the 6.8 SPC. Hunters wanted a better cartridge for big game, and certain elements of the military considered replacement of the 5.56 NATO. 300 BLK vs.300 HAMR: Which is the Better Cartridge?Īt about the turn of the 20th to 21st century, a movement to create better cartridges for the AR-15 platform began.
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