Moved to washington a year ago and love it so much decided to grow my roots here. Glad I found this page and am looking forward to meeting fellow shooters and reloaders. Side note anyone near yelm know of a local spot for some load development? From what I can tell closest range is on jblm and it's only open weekends.

Thanks!!

Welcome to WaGuns, Nick!

Where did you move from? What calibers are you loading?

I moved from Prince George, VA last year, spent a year on JBLM then bouget a place down in Yelm. I currently load for 9x19 357mag, 40sw, 45acp, 10mm, 223, 300blk, and 7mm mag.

Oh hell yeah.

Do you load subsonic 300BLK? If so, for a semi-auto or a bolt action? Got a favorite load you'd like to share?

And do you have a suppressor?

I am setup to load for subsonic but haven't got blessed off for the suppressor yet so currently load 16g of 4227 behind 150gr hornady soft points for plinking. It's a cmmg barreled ar15 platform build carbine length. 1moa at 100 meters but not so much after that.

Nice. I have been loading subsonic for an AR, but I recently got a bolt-action 300BLK so now I have a whole new quest . . . to get even quieter, since I don't need to worry about cycling the action anymore. Fun stuff, and an endless hobby, lol.

Absolutely!! The guy I was supposed to be getting my 225 pc cast boolits from keeps bailing on me so looks like I'm gonna have to find a new supplier for heavy cast. What powder were you using for subs for your semiauto?

My AR has an 8" barrel. Using a 240-grain Leatherhead bullet (http://leatherheadbullets.com/rifle-bullets/) with OAL 2.055", I did some experimenting with IMR 4227 but I wasn't able to get it to cycle the gun without the bullet going supersonic.

I finally got my hands on some AA1680, and it worked like a champ. I settled on 11.6 grains of powder, which gives me about 1050 fps. The gun actually cycled with as little as 10.5 grains of powder, which gave me 908 fps.

Then I bought a Ruger American in 300BLK. My normal subsonic loads (the 11.6 grains of AA1680) went supersonic from the longer 16" barrel, at 1191 fps. So in the interest of "science" I tried some Trail Boss loads with 110- and 147-grain bullets. They were just STUPID QUIET (suppressed, of course) but I wasn't able to get higher than 924 fps. I'm going to keep experimenting, maybe try some pistol powder like Titegroup or Unique.

Ahhh cool. I have a lb of h110 on stand by for when Im ready to load the sub's. I see your up in Renton. I go up there every couple months to get supplies from sages. Great prices.

Definitely. Wes is a member on here (sagewa), though he's so crazy busy packing boxes and running his Facebook page that we don't see him online here very often. I get over there to see him regularly, though.

I shoot out at Upper Nisqually Sportsmen's Club in Eatonville. Open every day. Pretty reasonable annual rate. Once you are a member and get your safety brief you can use the ranges unsupervised. The ranges are all covered and they have lengths out to 550.

240 to join for a family or 185 alone? Might be to rich for my blood

Happy to take you out there sometime if you would like to check it out. When I joined they waived joining fee for military if you fall in that category, I pay 165 annualy for a family of 5. I also shoot out at Capitol Forest, happy to link up and show you a few spots sometime.

Yup yelm is the place for cool kids. you either live in yelm or wish you did. SHTF there is no better place to be.

W7hub. I'll take u up on that, lemme know when your going.

Mash man, agreed, I'm loving yelm