No, I use earplugs in all those situations. You may disagree with my view but at least I'm not contradicting myself. At the very least you'd get the most power as you could carry then right? So why carry 9mm when you have 10mm? Why carry 10mm when there is 357 Automag? I draw my line in the same place, right at 9mm. Saying you trust it but would choose better if you could is ignorant as there is always more power available. Either you trust your life to a cartridge/caliber, etc, or you don't. To draw the line in two places to me is silly. I think my 194s are perfectly capable, and I sleep just fine with them loaded by my bedside.Īt the end of the day everyone draws a line on what is acceptable for self defense and what is not. If having 110s make you feel better, then by all means use them. And considering a 22LR has a one shot stop rate of nearly 50%, I think there is a lot more chest thumping that goes on unnecessarily. Obviously people draw the line as much lower power levels than 308. If it were that important everyone would have 308s as HD guns yet nobody does. Personally I think the need for the most possible power is a rediculous straw man. If anything Id want less power in a rifle as over penetration is a real concern vs the dark corner of a parking garage and with a rifle placement of said round is allegedly easier than with a handgun which is all the more reason to have more power in a handgun. Yet those same people say all handguns are incapable of working indoors.

Why don't you carry them? Is it because you know 9mm is enough? That's the argument I see people make every day. There are several handgun cartridges that are capable of more energy than that. I have ideopathic hearing loss and tinnitus that Ive had from birth or at least since very early childhood and I don't see the need to risk what hearing I have left. View QuoteNo, I use earplugs in all those situations. 300 BLK is the best choice for that in a rifle. Whether this is sporadic range time during the day or SHTF survival, subsonic is the name of the game for staying discrete without giving up the ability to fire rounds when needed, and. Subsonic seems appealing to me specifically for shooting without people 1-2 miles around knowing I'm shooting. Firing them from inside to a target outside is not uncomfortable on my ears or the dog's.

I've taken to keeping a single subsonic round in the chamber in case I need to take a quick potshot at a coyote or something, but the mags are all Barnes. If i want to STOP something with a short AR without blowing out the windows, I'm grabbing a mag of Barnes 110s.Pretty much this. I love my suppressed 300blk SBR with subs, but it's mostly for plinking or quiet pig popping. Shoot a super and a sub into the berm at 10ft and see the difference, it's not like shooting over a field.ĬNS hits with any of them will do the job, but i like my envelope to be a little bigger. Having shot 4 legged critters with all of those, none compare to the Barnes supers in terminal effect.

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