alamo5000
15 January 2015, 18:52
I recently went to a gun show and there is a local vendor that sells brass of all types. The brass looked very good... all of it was once fired and he had bags and bags of brass that was essentially professionally cut down, cleaned and polished.
He was asking a flat $50 for a bag of several hundred blackout cases that all looked very nice. If I am not mistaken it was a flat $50 for 250 cases, but the guy was negotiable on price to some degree. I am sure if I bought two or three bags he would give me a discount. If I look around I am sure I could find more for cheaper.
The only thing that has been kind of scaring me off of building a .300 BO upper (and potentially getting a suppressor for it) is the extremely high cost of shooting it. It's pretty much about twice the cost (if not more) to shoot .300 BO than it is to shoot .223/5.56
If I do decide to make the leap ammo cost is a big factor... but here is my main goal... to make a crap load of subsonics. I am a firm believer that if you own it you should have ammo for it. I haven't shopped for the materials to reload but if I can say keep 1000 rounds on hand that would be good. Two thousand rounds would be better.
I haven't priced everything out but I have heard that with subs you need to shoot a much heavier grain bullet to make the gun cycle. That said I don't know if I will be saving money reloading or not...
Does anyone have any current info, input, or comments for this scenario?
He was asking a flat $50 for a bag of several hundred blackout cases that all looked very nice. If I am not mistaken it was a flat $50 for 250 cases, but the guy was negotiable on price to some degree. I am sure if I bought two or three bags he would give me a discount. If I look around I am sure I could find more for cheaper.
The only thing that has been kind of scaring me off of building a .300 BO upper (and potentially getting a suppressor for it) is the extremely high cost of shooting it. It's pretty much about twice the cost (if not more) to shoot .300 BO than it is to shoot .223/5.56
If I do decide to make the leap ammo cost is a big factor... but here is my main goal... to make a crap load of subsonics. I am a firm believer that if you own it you should have ammo for it. I haven't shopped for the materials to reload but if I can say keep 1000 rounds on hand that would be good. Two thousand rounds would be better.
I haven't priced everything out but I have heard that with subs you need to shoot a much heavier grain bullet to make the gun cycle. That said I don't know if I will be saving money reloading or not...
Does anyone have any current info, input, or comments for this scenario?