Sure Shot Mc Gee
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M1 30 carbine. War time short range battle rifle. Not much power not much bullet either. Great cartridge for up close and personal defense on the street. Other than that. Game wise taking. Rabbit comes to mind.
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.
I love it, but it will always be what it has been; a magnum pistol round fired from a small light carbine.
the 300 blackout, same round as the 300 whisper/300-221 fireball, and it's not really much different than the 30 carbine
Funny- the carbine round will still do everything it ever did-and in a very handy little rifle.
It's not the round of the future, nor is it obsolete.
It was used on the Planet of the Apes!!
emcon5 said:Yeah, the .300 Blackout is an excellent solution designed to solve a very specific problem, a heavy subsonic round suitable for suppressed AR pattern rifles.
If you do not have that specific problem to solve, it isn't all that great.
Your disdain for the caliber notwithstanding, like every caliber, it has a place. You may not appreciate it or understand it's strengths and weaknesses but many others do. Therefore, your pronouncement is more likely based upon ignorance rather than experience.Scorch: 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.
44 AMP said:The .300 Blackout is about 400fps faster than the .30 carbine with the 110gr bullet