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Gorilla GF-10: Lightweight Hunting Semiauto in 8.6mm Blackout (w/ Ballistics Gel) (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-12-13 12:00:01 +0000 UTCToday I've got one of Gorilla Ammo's GF-10 rifles to do some shooting with. It's an AR-10 platform chambered for 8.6mm Blackout (they also offer it in .243 Win, .260 Rem, 6.5CM, and .308 Win). It weighs in at just 7.2 pounds with a 16" barrel, so it's not an NFA item (they do also offer a 12" pistol pattern). I've got my Q Porq Chop on it as a suppressor, and I'm using subsonic ammo - with this combination it is sort recoiling and completely hearing-safe. The loudest part of the gun is the action clacking closed after each shot. I only put about 40 rounds through it (thanks to the cost of 8.6 ammunition...) but I had no malfunctions of any kind, and it made a nice consistent ejection pattern.
We also took the opportunity today to put a round of Gorilla's 342gr subsonic expanding ammunition into a block of Clear Ballistics gel - and holy cow. It's a bullet designed to expand while retaining all its mass, and it sure does. The utility of the 1:3" rifling of the 8.6mm cartridge is that it provides a massive amount of rotational energy to allow the bullet to expand reliably even if it's traveling relatively slowly at range. It came out of the gel looking like an honest-to-goodness grappling hook...
Comments
Guido Schriewer
for 300gr it kicks suprisingly little.
Guido Schriewer
how many new calibers. one of these peaks, huh? years nothing then all new better than everything on the market.
