Would you buy a micro compact DA/SA chambered in 30 Super Carry?
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Erich
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No.
But it sounds fun!
I suspect we're not going to see a whole lot more of the 8mm Super Duper - the .45 GAP was a neat cartridge, too.
But it sounds fun!
I suspect we're not going to see a whole lot more of the 8mm Super Duper - the .45 GAP was a neat cartridge, too.
I don't plan on buying anything in 5.7 mm or 30 Super Carry. 1911 pistols and S&W 38 Spl revolvers have been solving problems successfully for over 100 years.
I really don't see much use for the .30 Super Carry. Just don't see the advantage over 9x19. Besides, I already have "super .30's." They're called Polish and Romanian Tokarevs in 7.62x25.
I really don't see much use for the .30 Super Carry. Just don't see the advantage over 9x19. Besides, I already have "super .30's." They're called Polish and Romanian Tokarevs in 7.62x25.
I have a couple of earlier flavors of the .30 Super as well. 7.63 Mauser and 7.65 Parabellum. If nothing else they are centainly classier than any plastic doodad that might be chambered in .30 Super
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If the cartridge were less expensive and available in a firearm that I liked, then sure, I could see myself getting a micro compact in .30 Super Carry.
I was tempted by the M&P30 Shield PLUS in the past...
Heck, get Walther to make a variation of the PPK chambered in .30 Super Carry and I guarantee you that I'll buy/carry it!
I was tempted by the M&P30 Shield PLUS in the past...
Heck, get Walther to make a variation of the PPK chambered in .30 Super Carry and I guarantee you that I'll buy/carry it!
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I really don't see much use for the .30 Super Carry. Just don't see the advantage over 9x19. Besides, I already have "super .30's." They're called Polish and Romanian Tokarevs in 7.62x25.
More capacity with very similar ballistics to 9mm might make a DA/SA micro compact "9mm" (but in 30 super carry) more feasible. That's the advantage. We still haven't seen a DA/SA micro compact 9mm hit the market yet. If you can't tell, I'm a DA/SA guy.
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30 Super Carry prices actually aren't that far off from 9mm right now: 30 Super Carry Ammo | Best 30 Super Carry Ammunition - AmmoSeek.com 2023
Nope. I can't legally buy anything with a mag capacity of more than 10 anyway, so the advantage of more rounds is moot for me.
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IMHO it's nothing but a money grab and a solution to a problem that doesn't exist - nothing else! You have 9mm and .380 acp - no need for one in the middle. Try to get ammo for that 10 years down the road when the flame dies out - good luck! It will go the way of the 357 max. etc.
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I would consider a micro DA/SA carry gun along the size of a shield + but not in 30SC. I'm fully invested in 9mm, 45 ACP and see no need FOR MY requirements to need another caliber.
Others may want the 30 SC, but FOR ME, I don't see it as anything special.
Others may want the 30 SC, but FOR ME, I don't see it as anything special.
No. Another useless cartridge.
I would look hard at a DA/SA micro pistol but I am not really interested in 30 Super Duper Carry.
There is just not advantage there to warrant having to stock another (probably boutique) caliber.
There is just not advantage there to warrant having to stock another (probably boutique) caliber.
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It's tough to say for myself. I'm very happy with my P365 and Grand Power Q1S. But, to have a weapon similar in size as the Sig but carry 4 more rounds in a pocket? Tempting. Summers are too hot for the GP, so small and multiple rounds? I'm in.
I am waiting for the:
Super Duper Micro High Capacity Optic Ready version!!
Super Duper Micro High Capacity Optic Ready version!!
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I'd rather have a .327 J frame than a .30SC anything. More versitile ammo choices. The caveat is, those versitile ammo choices are scarce and pricey. So I'll stick with 9mm and .357 and .45ACP.
Plus the .30 SC appears to be a solution in search of a problem. The old 7.65 Luger pushed a 93 gr pill at (if memory serves) something like 1200 fps.. The new .30 basically is sending a 100 gr pill at similar velocity. This is 120 years of progress? Simple fact is most of the "new" cartridges introduced in the past 30 yrs + are just a repackaged version of something that's already around. Critters, both 2 legged and four legged haven't changed in the last couple hundred years, and the rounds designed to deal with them 100 yrs ago work just as well ((or better with new bullets) now as they did then. Heck, even the new .277 Fury the military has adopted isn't much more than a 7mm/.08 (or the ancient .276 Peterson) that's been hotrodded to absurd pressure levels and requires a special hybrid case for a mere 500 fps increase in velocity. As the old saying goes, nothing new under the sun.
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The problem it solves is more capacity in a small gun.
There are quite a few people that use Magguts spring kits or extended magazines and baseplates to get an extra round or two. Once the P365 and similar guns came out lots of people switched to it so they could have and extra 3 or 4 rounds compared to the single stack 9mm pistols they were carrying.
Its not as big as difference as going from a Glock 43 to a Sig P365 but a couple of more rounds in the same size gun does have a lot of appeal.
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That same argument (using 9mm and .45ACP) is what got us here in the first place. Now we are just down sizing it to a "9mm to .30 super dooper holding more rounds" debate. Da mo tings change da mo dey don't
No, but mainly because I don't want to have to stock yet another caliber. I got rid of guns in .40 and .380 for that reason.
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What I would really like to have is the L-Frame .32-20 that Roy Jinks one time told me he has. This was while the S&W collection was traveling years ago, while it was in Omaha. I had told him I really would like an N-Frame .32-20. I don't know if he was serious! He assured me he was.
I don't see myself buying anything in .30 Super Carry…
Ya know, I was one of the nope, not getting into another cartridge.
Then you had to go and mention the idea of the PPK chambered in .30 SC.....
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