Why reinvent the wheel with a 30 super carry when the bottlenecked 7.62x25 Tokarev from 1930 is still a seriously impressive cartridge. The Military Arms Channel tested some Bulgarian surplus 7.62x25 Tokarev and it went right through a level IIIa armor plate. The 7.62x25 Tokarev certainly has enough energy for self defense, but it is no where near as powerful as the bottlenecked 9x25 Dillon cartridge, the 90g FMJ leaves the barrel at 2,100 fps and 881 ft.lbs of muzzle energy. The 125g 9x25 Dillon exactly matches the full house .375 Magnum, the magnum is known as the "man stopper" with 1,700 fps and 802 ft.lbs of ME. I prefer bottlenecked cartridges for self defense as it is nearly impossible to have a failure to feed issue because of the case shape.
There’s a UA-cam video that “Gun dungeon” did comparing HST rounds in 30sc, 9mm, 40, 357sig, and 45 in ballistics gel. The results would surprise people on how well 30sc stacks up to all of them. Handgun rounds all generally do the same thing, so having more rounds and less recoil matters the most, and 30sc wins the argument if everybody’s being honest about it.
Why reinvent the wheel with a 30 super carry when the bottlenecked 7.62x25 Tokarev from 1930 is still a seriously impressive cartridge. The Military Arms Channel tested some Bulgarian surplus 7.62x25 Tokarev and it went right through a level IIIa armor plate. The 7.62x25 Tokarev certainly has enough energy for self defense, but it is no where near as powerful as the bottlenecked 9x25 Dillon cartridge, the 90g FMJ leaves the barrel at 2,100 fps and 881 ft.lbs of muzzle energy. The 125g 9x25 Dillon exactly matches the full house .375 Magnum, the magnum is known as the "man stopper" with 1,700 fps and 802 ft.lbs of ME. I prefer bottlenecked cartridges for self defense as it is nearly impossible to have a failure to feed issue because of the case shape.
@@chrisdaniel1339 I believe they were after more capacity and less recoil.
There’s a UA-cam video that “Gun dungeon” did comparing HST rounds in 30sc, 9mm, 40, 357sig, and 45 in ballistics gel. The results would surprise people on how well 30sc stacks up to all of them.
Handgun rounds all generally do the same thing, so having more rounds and less recoil matters the most, and 30sc wins the argument if everybody’s being honest about it.
@@copper178 exactly if you remember the whole 9 mm 40 debate. God bless.