300 Whisper Speaks...Quietly

[schunter]

After several days of passing up young Texas bucks that needed some more years to mature, the Hush gun spoke...quietly.



Subsonic factory 208 A-max in the SSK Barreled 300 Whisper took this big Texas nanny at a long range of 18 yards. Quartering to, the bullet entered through the left shoulder and traveled to the R ham. She bounded about 8 yards, hunched up, stiffened her legs, and fell over dead. Backstraps!

Bullet recovered in R ham, tumbling and making a mess along the way.

[zeus]

Nice Dur!

[t5malibuwagon]

I was wondering if anyone would take advantage of that new law, nice deer.

[dougader]

Wow, dropped dead in 8 yards, and with no expansion from the 30 caliber slug. Is the A Max designed to tumble? I thought I read in a Hornady reloading manual that it would expand (at higher velocities).

[schunter]

Dougader,

With all of the long 30 cal projectiles (subsonically), the bullets will not perform conventionally. In my conversations with Doc Rogers, his best results have come with the long bullets that create damage through tumbling and instability once they impact the target. In his experience, the 220 Sierra RN and the 240 SMK's have been the best, resulting in massive wound channels. My result with the A-Max was the same.

Supersonically, it's a pretty fragile bullet.

There are a couple of manufacturers that have released bullet designs that will perform conventionally at subsonic velocities - Lehigh Defense and Outlaw State Bullets, either through expansion and or fragmentation.

[dougader]

Very interesting stuff. I remember when the 300 Whisper came out. I think I read about it in American Handgunner in the 1980's. I believe I need one of these, suppressed in a Contender like yours.