JohnBiltz
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If the military went to a new caliber it would be popular. The police going to .40 was enough to drag it into semi-popularity.
Amscor has a conversion kit for Glock as well 1911 A1 handguns for the .22 TCM. Not sure if it will solidify the round or not.I feel as though at this point much of the benefits of new cartridges are far more marginal than they used to be. Advances in firearms technology in general is slowing greatly, IMO.
It's not necessarily a bad thing, it's just a matter of reaching limits with what is available. Advances in technology generally become more marginal over time, unless significant game changing discoveries are made.
As it is, the theoretical benefits of, say, the 6.5 Creedmoor over the .308 Winchester for the average person are far reduced from the theoretical advantages of .30-06 over .30-30 for the average hunter.
I think the only chance a cartridge has nowadays for ready adoption is if it is one of the first on the line to fill a new niche, while conforming to others. The .30 Blackout comes to mind, as it filled the niche of suppressor usage in a SBR, but conformed to enough in terms of working with the AR to make it available to a large pre-existing part of the market. .22 TCM comes to mind as a cartridge that filled a niche (high-velocity handgun cartridges) but didn't conform to enough of the market to really take off. RIA was the only option if you wanted one, and you had to get a double stack modern 1911 if you wanted one at all. Doing so excluded people like me, who wanted a plane-jane .22TCM GI 1911, and many others who either did not want a 1911 at all, or ones who did not want a RIA.
I'm not sure if there will be any new chambering which will make it big. However I don't believe any have the chance to overtake the "big boys" which dominate the market.
New niches are so small, a razor blade won't fit between them. Just look at Cartridges of the World and tell me there is a gap anywhere.
When I read the title, I immediately thought of the 10mm Automatic and .40 S&W. Both were compromise cartridges designed to strike a balance between the bulk of the .45 ACP and the perceived weakness of the 9 mm Parabellum. The 10 mm came out in the early 1980's and the 40 S&W a bit later and it has taken them thirty years to reach widespread popularity. So, with respect to more recent cartridges, only time will tell, but I suspect many of us won't be around to see if the .300 AAC turns out to be a long-term success.
It requires a rifle to be at least .35. Basically, they only want people hunting with fat pistol calibers that have rainbow arcs so that it is less likely someone plants a soft-point into someone's kid's nursery a mile away.
I've got five of them..30-06 That's thirty caliber, 1906. It's not going anywhere. Lot of different caliber rifles in the safe but, I only have one rifle in that caliber. If I had only one rifle it would be a .30-06. That's thirty caliber, 1906.
they're not "go to", but they're not obsolete eitherI'm sure there was a time when the 32-20, 44-40, 30-40 Krag, and many others were seen as the "go to", and that they would be forever and ever.
Or to prevent people from firing high-pressure rounds in guns designed for the ordinary 9X19.No 9mm Super or 9 Super would have similar dimensions as 9mm but different case design to handle higher pressures.