AR Pistol or 300 BO rifle

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A fully shotgun zone legal 12 gauge rifled 18" barreled shotgun firing Hornady SST sabot slugs puts more energy (ft-lbs) into a target at 100 yards (1795 vs 962) and 200 yards (1199 vs 734) than a 9" .300 BLK AR pistol. The .300 drops 8.6 inches at 200 yards with the 12 gauge at 11.6. If you run Foster/Brenekke style slugs in a smoothbore shotgun it's a lot closer in performance to the .300 BLK though.

Given the choice I'd take a pump 12 gauge with a rifled barrel and a low-power scope with a box of Hornady into the woods down south, I've made some pretty long shots with my 870 + weaver 1-3 scope shooting the SST slugs. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and preferences though.

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A fully shotgun zone legal 12 gauge rifled 18" barreled shotgun firing Hornady SST sabot slugs puts more energy (ft-lbs) into a target at 100 yards (1795 vs 962) and 200 yards (1199 vs 734) than a 9" .300 BLK AR pistol. The .300 drops 8.6 inches at 200 yards with the 12 gauge at 11.6. If you run Foster/Brenekke style slugs in a smoothbore shotgun it's a lot closer in performance to the .300 BLK though.

Given the choice I'd take a pump 12 gauge with a rifled barrel and a low-power scope with a box of Hornady into the woods down south, I've made some pretty long shots with my 870 + weaver 1-3 scope shooting the SST slugs. Everyone is entitled to their opinion and preferences though.

I have hunted with shotgun quite a bit. Accuracy suffers even with rifled barrels especially at greater distances. Yes everyone is entitled to their opinion and preferences but your data isn't exactly definitive or exactly correct. I wish I had the full chart for 100 and 200 yards but as you can see the load that I use is still pretty speedy at 300. I would never attempt such a long shot but 200 is very doable and with extremely good accuracy.

At the muzzle: 300 BLK, 9 inch barrel, 110 grain V-MAX, 2150 fps, 1129 fpe
At 300 yards: 300 BLK, 9 inch barrel, 110 grain V-MAX, 1437 fps, 504 fpe.

http://www.advanced-armament.com/assets/images/pdf/manuals/300BLK-AACUpper-MiniBro.pdf