30 caliber AR15 barrel

[bruce drake]

Folks,

I'm looking for anyone who might have a 30 caliber AR15 barrel (preferably 300 fireball but 7.62x39 would work as well) they are willing to sell at a decent price.

I'm planning to develop 180gr cast loads with it if I can find one for sale.

Bruce

[andremajic]

82nd Airborne (forum member) works at delta enterprises llc. and is set up to make 300 blackout barrels for ar-15. You might hit him up for a PM for a price.

[redneckdan]

some of the Oly arms .300 fire ball barrels tend to be tight. Mine measured at .3068 groove dia and .2883 bore diameter.

[82nd airborne]

To shoot BLK in a OLY, it needs to be rechambered or you will get higher pressure than is safe. However, there is not a thing wrong with .300 fireball as it is.

[bruce drake]

Folks,

Been busy at work and trying to get back to the States for a little vacation.

82nd Airborne is building me a complete A3 upper in 300 BLK to meet my needs of a 30 caliber AR.

I sent a deposit in last week and it should be done before September when I redeploy.

I'll start a new thread in the fall when I can come home and develop loads for the new upper.

Bruce

[Artful]

You might want to look at the group buy for the Whisper cast boolit...
http://castboolits.gunloads.com/showthread.php?t=102895

it's heavier than 180 grain but if you have a 1:8 twist it should be the Cat's Meow.

[bruce drake]

I own a 200gr mold to play with heavy bullets.

I don't intend for this rifle to be a sub-sonic thumper but more towards being an upgraded modern M1 Carbine with my primary lead boolits being Lyman 311413s (169gr gas-checked Spitzer) and 311410s (130gr Plain base plinker).

For jacketed loads, I'll be using the 110gr RN FMJs (plinking/100yard target loads) as well as 125gr Spitzers for 200yard target work. I'll reserve the heavier lead boolits as well as 150gr Round-nose jacketed bullets that are thin-skinned for reliable expansions at 30-30 velocities for hunting deer and smaller species.

Bruce

[bruce drake]

I bought the Redding 300/221 Remington dies on 82nd Airborne's advice in a PM. He's working on finishing up the A3 upper with 20" barrel that I commissioned him to create for me.
The dies should be at the house within the next week and I should be home by mid-Sept to hopefully get some personal range time with the new 300BLK upper after I spend some quality family time.
I'm hoping to have a decent load worked up for this year's deer season in NY.
Bruce

[bruce drake]

Got the bugs tweaked out of the rifle loads yesterday. 19gr of H110 over a Hornady 123gr .310 jacketed Spitzer that I resized to .308. Sub MOA at 100 yards. Aaron (82nd Airborne) makes a great rifle.

Bruce

[bruce drake]

Went Coyote hunting yesterday with the j-load mentioned above. Didn't see a coyote at all but on the way out I saw a Porcupine in a tree working on a young birch tree. One shot at 50yards dropped the sticky pig in his tracks. The 125gr bullet entered right behind his left front quarter and took out his heart and lungs before popping into the tree behind him. He did a perfect Louganis dive bouncing off a couple of branches on his way to the ground. By the time I walked up to him he was DRT and is now probably residing inside the gut of one of the local coyote packs.

For the readers. NY considers Porcupines as an Unprotected Species/Pest and can be taken at any time of the year as long as you have a license to hunt. These overgrown sticky rodents do a lot of damage to the trees in the region and we are trying to rebuild the hardwood forests on the Fort Drum region so this should help the region's trees this winter.

Bruce

[bruce drake]

a 9-shot group (all I had left loaded at the time) after shooting all morning with the rifle that 82airborne made for me last year while I was in Afghanistan. I was having so much fun blowing dirtclods apart on the berm, I forgot I wanted to get a shot for group with the new jacketed load.

Overall 2" across but the last four formed a beautiful square once the wind died down a little bit.

50 yards off hand
110gr Sierra Spitzer
18gr of H110
CCI SR Primer
Reformed and cutdown LC00 brass

Well, again, I'm sure it would be a tighter group if I benched it on some sandbags and used a scope but its an Iron Sighted rifle that was designed for snap shooting in the woods so I think its a great rifle for that combo.

Bruce