.300 AAC Blackout ballistics chart
The .300 Blackout trajectory with a supersonic 125-grain load: drop, wind drift and retained velocity from a 100-yard zero out to 500 yards.
What is the .300 AAC Blackout?
The .300 AAC Blackout puts .30-calibre bullets into an unmodified AR-15 - same magazines, same bolt, just a new barrel. The supersonic loading drives a 110-135 grain bullet around 2,150-2,350 fps from a 16-inch barrel, giving ballistics broadly similar to 7.62x39mm and enough energy for deer and hogs inside 200 yards.
Its other half is the 190-220 grain subsonic loading at roughly 1,000 fps, which is exceptionally quiet suppressed but drops like a stone past 150 yards. Either way the Blackout is a short-barrel, short-range carbine cartridge: the supersonic load shown here goes transonic in the 400-500 yard band and was never intended to reach further.
Typical uses: Suppressed and short-barrel AR-15 carbines, home defence, and hog and deer hunting inside 200 yards.
Sample load
The trajectory below is calculated for this representative factory load in a standard ICAO atmosphere. The bullet is an entry from the app’s bullet library, so the calculator opens with it already selected. Your rifle will differ — enter your own chronographed velocity and verified BC in the calculator for numbers you can dial.
- Bullet
- Hornady 125 gr HP
- Muzzle velocity
- 2,175 fps
- Ballistic coefficient
- 0.32 (G1)
- Zero
- 100 yd
.300 AAC Blackout key figures
- Muzzle energy
- 1,313 ft⋅lb
- Supersonic to
- About 550 yd
- Point-blank range, 6 in zone
- 210 yd (179 yd zero)
- Point-blank range, 3 in zone
- 163 yd (141 yd zero)
- Drop at 300 yd, 100 yd zero
- 27.9 in
Point-blank range is how far you can hold dead on and still hit a target zone of that height, using the zero shown. Work it out for your own load with the maximum point-blank range calculator , or see how the .300 AAC Blackout stacks up in the cartridge comparison chart .
.300 AAC Blackout trajectory table
| Range (yd) | Velocity (fps) | Energy (ft⋅lb) | Drop (in) | Elevation (MIL) | Elevation (MOA) | Wind 10 mph (MIL) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 50 | 2,049 | 1,166 | 0.3 | -0.2 | -0.5 | 0.2 |
| 100 | 1,928 | 1,032 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.0 | 0.4 |
| 150 | 1,812 | 911 | -2.6 | 0.5 | 1.7 | 0.7 |
| 200 | 1,700 | 802 | -7.9 | 1.1 | 3.8 | 0.9 |
| 250 | 1,594 | 705 | -16.2 | 1.8 | 6.2 | 1.2 |
| 300 | 1,494 | 620 | -27.9 | 2.6 | 8.9 | 1.4 |
| 350 | 1,401 | 545 | -43.5 | 3.5 | 11.9 | 1.7 |
| 400 | 1,315 | 480 | -63.6 | 4.5 | 15.2 | 2.0 |
| 450 | 1,239 | 426 | -88.6 | 5.6 | 18.8 | 2.3 |
| 500 | 1,172 | 381 | -119.3 | 6.8 | 22.8 | 2.7 |
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