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Eggman, I have a 16" 300 Blk for home defense and pretty much exclusively use 110 gr Nosler Varmageddons with Winchester 296/Hodgdon H110 (magnum pistol powders). You're going to like 110's in it!. I push them at 2320 and the shoulder punch is significantly less than even 150s in the high teens. Looks like the Midway 2nds you have on the way are VMax's. Both the Varmageddons and VMax's are nasty bullets against soft targets. All of the testing i've done vs a 16" 5.56 with 55s approaching 3k shows the 300 smacking a lot harder - be it steel plates, small watermelons and other various sundry items from the produce department or household items that made a detour to a "range" before heading to the dumpster.
Don't fret over SDs if your truly making a defense load unless you're worried about getting in a shootout with cover at ranges over 100 yards - just find something accurate. Mine has a red dot zero'd at 50 yards (it shoots on a 3 MOA red dot at that range) and it holds minute of bad guy (ie, an IPSC) to 175 holding on the dot - far beyond any range you could look a judge or jury in the eye and say "that shot was in self defense". Any shot you're taking is not going to be impacted by the vertical dispersion of high velocity variation.
One of the beauties of 300 Blk if you're using a magnum pistol powder like we all did before dedicated (and slower burning) Blk powders came out is that most of the powder burns within 10" of barrel length, so there's much less of a fireball coming out of the muzzle. It's still there when the sun goes down, but it's not nearly as bright as other calibers with similar muzzle energy. I'll note that I use a linear comp to send all of the noise downrange, so the fireball is more conelike and gets sent downrange too. If you don't like your results with CFE Blk and 110s, you may want to try a faster powder like a magnum pistol powder..
Don't fret over SDs if your truly making a defense load unless you're worried about getting in a shootout with cover at ranges over 100 yards - just find something accurate. Mine has a red dot zero'd at 50 yards (it shoots on a 3 MOA red dot at that range) and it holds minute of bad guy (ie, an IPSC) to 175 holding on the dot - far beyond any range you could look a judge or jury in the eye and say "that shot was in self defense". Any shot you're taking is not going to be impacted by the vertical dispersion of high velocity variation.
One of the beauties of 300 Blk if you're using a magnum pistol powder like we all did before dedicated (and slower burning) Blk powders came out is that most of the powder burns within 10" of barrel length, so there's much less of a fireball coming out of the muzzle. It's still there when the sun goes down, but it's not nearly as bright as other calibers with similar muzzle energy. I'll note that I use a linear comp to send all of the noise downrange, so the fireball is more conelike and gets sent downrange too. If you don't like your results with CFE Blk and 110s, you may want to try a faster powder like a magnum pistol powder..
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