Gary Reeder
Speaking of totally useless cartridges a fellow brought
Wednesday, January 03, 2024, 13:54

in a box of the new 30 Super and wanted to know what guns was it chambered in. He was of the opinion that the 30 Super Carry was the hot new carry round. The Sportsman's Warehouse, our main competitor a couple of blocks from here, is really pushing this cartridge but apparently they don't have a gun for it.

I have always heard if you tell an moron something enough times he will eventually believe it. And I guess that is true enough, especially after the release of the 350 Legend, the 45 Gap, the 6.8 SPC, the 50 GI, the 400 Cor Bon, and the 30 Super among others.
The 30 Super really makes things a bit foggy by calling it the 30 Super Carry. And no that doesn't mean it is the best cartridge to carry. Far from it. As a for instance the 30 Super Carry is a 100 grain bullet at 1250. A 32 H&R which is for sure not a self defense round but is a 100 grain bullet at 1150 FPS. So for all practical purposes you are carrying an H&R as a self defense cartridge. For self defense a wise person carries a cartridge that will solve your self defense problem. As another for instance a 9mm factory round is a 124 grain bullet at 1400 FPS and some of the specialty 9mm defense loads are in the 1650 FPS range. I always believed in the old saying of "carry the largest cartridge that you can handle well".
I have now and have for many years carried a 45 auto as a carry gun. But if the 45 were outlawed it wouldn't break my heart to go to the 9mm, mainly because the 9mm has come so far along in the last few years that going to the 9mm I am not giving up any power and with a bit less recoil I can get more rounds in the air in a bad situation. But would I ever give up my 45 or even my favorite Browning Hi Power in 9mm and go to the 30 Super Carry? And I would guess you know the answer to that. My son Kase, who builds some great 45 1911s and could carry one of them if he so desired. But he has seen some of the super hot specialty 9mm rounds on the market and he carries a custom Browning Hi Power I gave him for Christmas years ago.

In the pic below the cartridges are the 380, the 30 Super Carry, the 9mm, and the 38 Super.

The 30 Super has a bit more power than the 380 and much less than the 9mm, and way less than the 38 Super. Yet some of the gun writers are really pushing the 30 Super as the cartridge to carry if you are serious about personal defense. One gun writer even went as far as saying a "cartridge that women could handle". I bet that pissed off a lot of women.
Unfortunately, a lot of folks new into guns will believe the crap being posted about the new 30 Super Carry.

Right now there is a whole flock of new cartridges that are each claiming to be the fastest or most flat shooting or best for long range and the perfect cartridge for dangerous game and so on. The 6.5 Creedmoor got all this started. I have had owners of the 6.5 Creedmoor tell me to my face that the 6.5 shot flat to 800 yards. Another told me the 6.5 was the perfect bull elk cartridge, another that the military was going to go with it as their long range sniper cartridge and the BS goes on and on.

More and more folks are getting into guns these days, seemingly more than in the past but it is a shame that they are being led into believing in Santa Klaus, the Easter Bunny, honest Democrats and cartridges like the 30 Super Carry.

And as a disclaimer, let me add, if this pisses off some of those that plan on carrying the 30 Super Carry, I didn't mean it as a slam against you. One of these days we may be over-run by fang toothed rabbits, Killer Prarie Dogs, or gay ankle biting groundhogs and that 30 Super Carry will become the gun to have and you will be my hero and I will wish I had a gun chambered in the 30 Super Carry. Until then, maybe not.