USA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Sturm, Ruger & Company, Inc. (NYSE-RGR) is pleased to announce that the AR-556® rifle with free-float handguard is now available chambered in .300 Blackout.
Ruger AR-556 Rifle with Free-Float Handguard in 300 Blackout
This addition to the Ruger® AR-556 rifle line features a 16.10” cold hammer-forged barrel with a 1:7” twist and pistol-length gas system to reliably function with both the lightest supersonic hunting rounds and heavy, subsonic rounds.
The rifle also boasts an 11” aluminum free-float handguard with Magpul® M-LOK® accessory attachment slots and a standard pistol grip for easy user customization.
The dust cover and metal magazine are marked with the caliber for easy identification of both the rifle and ammunition. The pistol-length gas system is tuned to run with a wide variety of ammunition, with or without a silencer. The 5/8”-24 muzzle threads are capped with a thread protector.
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I’m wondering why a pistol length gas system? Articles I’ve read indicate that a mid length gas system is smoother to shoot and gives less impulse recoil??
You’re thinking 5.56. 300 AAC is designed around a 9″ barrel. Pistol length works just fine for short barrels, but you would probably be better off with a middie gas block on a longer 16″ barrel.
The 300 BLK is a pistol cartridge with a small powder charge. If fired in a rifle length gas system it probably won’t cycle the BCG
It is dangerous because the 300 BLK will chamber and fire in a 5.56×45 , But the 30 caliber bullet will always stick just in front of the chamber.
Not true, it works just fine and has for some time. You’ll note that they’re using a pistol length gas system and that may be to accommodate all loads. As for your second sentence, while true, that falls under common sense, by the user, and taking responsibility for their actions, not saying a company has a bad idea or shouldn’t produce something. By that logic you could say that people shouldn’t own Glock 19’s & 23’s because they could inadvertently put a 9mm Glock 19 magazine into a Glock 23 and fire it with potentially disastrous results.
I run caliber labeled dust covers on all my AR’s and the 300 AAC mags are labeled “300” in large numbers AND have a thick ranger band around the base of those mags.
Same here. I use colored rubber-band style wraps from Faxon Firearms to differentiate my 5.56 mags from my .300 BLK.
Yo, Captain. The .300 BLK is simply **optimized** for a 10.5″ barrel with suppressor and subsonic loads. It will perform admirably, however, in a carbine barrel, and certainly with a standard or supersonic load. Mine are great and give me no problems whatsoever. Your comment about the possibility of not having enough power to cycle the BCG in a longer barrel configuration is absurd. A typical 9mm target cartridge is optimized for a 4.5″ handgun barrel, but will actually gain about +10% muzzle velocity out of a 16″ carbine barrel, per ballistics tests. Blackout would do just fine in a… Read more »