We garnered some of our inspiration from broad heads when we did the bullet design. In the same sense of a broad head with bow hunting. Or, you can take the approach that we took, which is to design that bullet specifically to expand at lower velocities.īasically, what you had to do is when you don’t have the energy, you make the bullet do as much as possible. When you’re shooting at subsonic velocities, you lack energy and there’s nothing you can do about it other than either significantly increase the weight of the bullet, which, if it doesn’t expand, is not really going to have that much of an effect…again, it will just sail right through. But you don’t want to have to count on that. Could the tumbling create a more traumatic wound channel? Sure. Could it tumble if it hits bone or a hard surface? Sure. The analogy I like to use is it’s like a knitting needle through yarn. They do what they are designed to do.īut when you push those bullets subsonic, they’re just not constructed to perform terminally at those velocities. When they impact at 2,500-2,600 feet per second, they’re devastating. These subs were quiet, but I don’t think I’d have been comfortable hunting with them. It would have just been poking holes.Ī: You can hunt with those bullets when you put them in a. Q: When I first started loading 300 Blackout subs, we tried out bullets like the 208 gr. I realized, wow, there is an opportunity here. 22, and that was really…I started to laugh. The first firearm I shot was an AR-15 in 5.56 shooting supersonic, and it was still loud, but it was significantly less loud that it was unsuppressed.īut then I had an opportunity to shoot subsonic. The same day, I had an opportunity to shoot suppressed supersonic and subsonic. Why isn’t everyone shooting like this? Of course, the reason is suppressors are really heavily regulated. I never used to wear hearing protection and I’m pretty sure my ears suffered for it.Īs I got older, I had the chance to shoot suppressed and it completely rocked my world. We have been building our company for the past 3 years and we’re starting to really carve out a niche for ourselves in the ammunition industry. About the 188 grain machined copper projectile…”they’re nasty, and they’re nasty for a reason.”Ī: The mission of Discreet Ballistics is to create the most consistent subsonic ammunition around.

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