Anything twenty nine caliber!
Oh for the love of sandwiches, I hate the 29 Niche!
Pathetic pandering to a tactical Timmy subset, if you ask me. Who would think of intentionally using a .297” bullet tumbling down a barrel to increase wounding? How’s that going to work with a suppressor?! What the point of a higher sectional density if the bullet is sideways?
And the bullet weights are equally odd, as in weird. 217 and 231 grain subs, 137.5 supers. And what would anyone use an 89 for, gophers? And good luck hitting it with a .308 barrel. The Egyptian sister cartridge, the 2.99 Scarab, being spec’d for a .312 barrel in an AK is worse. Just dumb.
A stubby little case that belongs in pistol, yeah, more shoulder than a Blackout, but just. And with large rifle magnum primer to boot. I imagine they provide half the power in the case. No hotrodding that thin case head.
Anyway, it’s just the weirdest little round to use in a chamber adapted 30/30 ever. If the SAMMI specs were fixed before publication, and the over all length shortened, they could have used it in an AR, instead of one of those black ugly Henrys.
So yeah, I wouldn’t miss it if the Twenty-Nine Niche were to fall off the planet.
Don’t even get me started on on 14 caliber air rifles…