"Worthless", only relative to what you envision using it for. Others, myself included, really like the round (in the M1 Carbine), for plinking, three-gun competitions, informal recreational shooting, etc. It may not be ideal for deer hunting or other specific uses one may have an interest in, but not all guns are ideal for hunting, or some other specific use... some are just fun. As long as I am having fun, it is not a waste of powder and bullets.Round of the future? Heck, it isn't even the round of the past 20 years. What a waste of powder and bullet materials. It was popular 40-50 years ago because of cheap ammo and cheap rifles, but it was worthless even then. Seems everybody had one stashed in the back of the closet that they never shot. No, not the round of the future, IMO.
Nevertheless, it was issued to some paratroopers in Europe, and I believe in the WWII Pacific (at least I have seen war footage of it being used in combat), and Korea (M2 Carbine)....the M1 Carbine was adopted for support troops so they would have something larger than a pistol...
Is 30 Carbine the Round of the Future?
I thought the whole point was not to have something larger than a pistol, but to have something that was easier to shoot for most people. It is a lot harder to teach a recruit how to shoot a small rifle with reasonable accuracy than a pistol.Jimro said:Of course the M1 Carbine was adopted for support troops so they would have something larger than a pistol, kinda like the PDW of its day...
RickB said:What the .300BO offers is compatibility with the AR. There's nothing especially interesting about the ballistics.
T. O'Heir said:"...in .22 Spitfire..." No ammo. No brass. No data. You'd be making it.