Does this standard Piston kit for 5.56/223 in Pistol length work on 300BO in subsonic only? Short answer: NOT EVEN CLOSE - NO
Here are the issue with it:
The piston rod is heavy, the BCG is heavy, its too much mass to cycle with such low gas already. Not even with a 20% reduced power buffer spring would it come even close to working. With reduced power buffer spring, and a heavily weight reduced BCG, I think it would work. But they don't sell it. Adams Arms sells it but never in stock. And I am wondering, even with the lighter parts, it might require me opening up the gas port from ~80k to like 90k size hole to allow more gas in the system. I have to test it to see how sensitive it is to charges.