The New 30 AR Remington round

[NightRocker]

I may be a little behind on this stuff but I just came across this today. Has anyone else seen or heard of this new round? Perfect for the AR-15 shooter that wants to hunt with their AR-15 or just wants more power. heres the link for it http://www.remington.com/products/am...mington_ar.asp DPMS makes the new uppers and mags for this rifle.

[1832]

I'm probably just overly suspicious, but it looks like they re-worked the 7.62x39 Russian round to boost the sales of their over-priced ARs.

Just get a 7.62x39 Upper for an AR and spring for some good Prvi or Lapua hunting ammo.

[daschnoz]

Yeah, IIRC, we talked about this over at The Reload Bench earlier this year.
http://www.reloadbench.com/ubb/Forum10/HTML/000220.html

It is the solution to a problem that has already been solved - 7.62x39.

Compare the dimensions:





http://accurateshooter.wordpress.com...-ar-cartridge/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62x39mm

[Hawk]

Hunt with an AR? Not in PA.

[synergy]

Looking at the charts, it just looks like a downloaded 6.8SPC.

30 Rem AR has 125gr at 2200 fps. = ~1400 ft/lbs
6.8 SPC has 115gr at 2600 fps. = ~1700 ft/lbs


I don't see why anyone would want to commit to a whole new set of barrels and mags, when you could do the same thing with 6.8SPC in a lighter load.

[daschnoz]

Hunt with an AR? Not in PA.

There's a part of me that wants the PA Game Commission to get with the 21st century. I'd love to hunt with my FAL.

Then I get in the woods on the opening day of deer season and hear

blam, blam, blam, blam, blam

a brief pause

blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam

another brief pause

blam, blam, blam, blam

as the deer ran across the side of the mountain from left to right --- and I know exactly where the deer is --- alive and well on the side of the mountain to my right --- time to start humping it up the mountain :-)

[animalmother85]

...remington and their cleaver marketing techniques

[jkristo]

Bet it turns out to be as popular as the 300 Remington Short Action Ultra Magnum i saw an AR10 chambered for, they do go out of their way to try and "improve" existing rounds...

[Hawk]

There's a part of me that wants the PA Game Commission to get with the 21st century. I'd love to hunt with my FAL.

Then I get in the woods on the opening day of deer season and hear

blam, blam, blam, blam, blam

a brief pause

blam, blam, blam, blam, blam, blam

another brief pause

blam, blam, blam, blam

as the deer ran across the side of the mountain from left to right --- and I know exactly where the deer is --- alive and well on the side of the mountain to my right --- time to start humping it up the mountain :-)

I'd like to see semi's permitted with one caveat, your only allowed to have one round in the rifle at any time! I think that would be a good compromise to help keep the blam -blam -blam from happening and yet allow us AR, Garand, and XXXX owners to hunt with our rifles.

[daschnoz]

I'd like to see semi's permitted with one caveat, your only allowed to have one round in the rifle at any time! I think that would be a good compromise to help keep the blam -blam -blam from happening and yet allow us AR, Garand, and XXXX owners to hunt with our rifles.

It would be 100% legal to hunt with my FAL IF:
1. I remove the piston.
- and -
2. I have a special gas plug that has no gas vent, so even if I did install the piston, the rifle still would not cycle.

I would have to manually cycle the action after every shot. Of course, if I get some ass hat FUDD with a vendetta who is hell bent against "black guns", I'm toast. He would have no idea about how the gun functions, and he wouldn't give any fraction of a rat's ass if I tried to educate him either.

That would be my luck.

But back to the OP - a solution looking for a problem.