I have a fair amount of 5.56MM Lake City military surplus brass on hand. The caliber seemed to be the perfect candidate for this experiment. Recoil is virtually nonexistent even in full power loads in this caliber, so that issue would also be eliminated. Cast lead bullets for this caliber are usually about 50 to 55 grains, so again, I would not be wasting lead. The caliber does not require a large powder charge, so I would not be wasting a lot of powder in my experiments. ![]() The barrel has a 1:12 twist rate, so I thought it would lend itself well toward this experiment. The rifle I own in that caliber is an H&R single shot. If this proves to be useful to one person, I have met my goal. This is a long article, but I deliberately took time to explain things in detail. With that in mind, I’ll share with you what I did and you can decide for yourself if you want to pursue this and in what manner. I don’t care for instructions that suggest “This is how you HAVE to do it.” With respect to safe loading and shooting practices, that is the case in some situations, but not always. The purpose of this article is not to tell you how to do it, but to tell you how I did it. So, toward these ends, I set out to develop some relatively quiet low velocity loads. This would also lend itself well to general small game hunting and providing meat in a survival situation. Also, I’m an avid ‘coon hunter and thought it would be interesting to develop a subsonic load to hunt with. My wife enjoys shooting with me, but has a bit of problem with recoil and the high volume crack so common to hypervelocity centerfire rifle ammunition. I recently became interested in developing subsonic loads for a couple of centerfire rifles I own.
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