Intro to 30 Super Carry

A lot of people are talking about 30 super carry this summer. It's the newest round in the defensive market. It's something that offers a lot of advantages if you're looking for a little more capacity and a little gun. But what's the performance in the gel? Right. That's what matters. What's the performance going to be in the threat? Is it going to do what it needs to do when the time comes to defend yourself or others when you need to? That's the main question for any defensive round. And this is supposed to be performing very, very similarly to a nine millimeter round. It's a lighter round, but it's a faster round and of course, it's a smaller diameter round. So we should be able to get a depth of penetration and transfer of energy. Let's go ahead and shoot it into Joe and see what it's actually doing. We're going to be shooting it at about 15 ft here. Our normal defensive shooting practice is from 12 to 15 ft. We're going to be shooting it out of a four inch barrel, which I think is fair for a defensive gun. The subcompacts running all the way down to three inches and a full size gun being about five inches. But we've done a lot of demos at the 4 to 5 inch barrel range at 12 to 15 ft. So we can compare this to everything else in the personal events, network gel test library guns clear. I'll put it away and we'll see what we got and what we've got really couldn't be more perfect probably for what the ammunition manufacturer wants. We've got just about 18 inches of penetration and we always say 12 to 15 is definitely what we're looking for for personal defense. Some people say 15 to 18 get a little bit extra depth of penetration. I'm always happy right around that either side of that 15 inch mark and here we are just about 17.5 or 18 inches. Looks like we have really good expansion. We have good weight retention. I don't see any fragments coming off off of the main path. I have a little bit of jacket, maybe there, little flake of something there at about 10 inches, nine inches, 10 inches, but out here at 17.5 inches, really nice straight performance for the bullet tracked really level. You can see the spin, obviously, that's induced by the rifling. That's what gives you that, that shape as that's moving through as those pedals expand. Maximum expansion is back here at the, I don't know, probably about 3.5 or four inch mark as you would expect. And then those pedals fold back. This is a pretty simple jacket at hollow point from Remington. It is their high terminal performance HTP jacket at hollow point and it seems to have performed exactly like it's supposed to take a look at 30 super carry is something you should seriously do if you're looking for a new gun for personal defense carry.