.30 Super Carry: What It Is, Why It Hasn’t Exploded in Popularity, and Whether You Should Try It
Posted by Blackstone Shooting Sports on Sep 9th 2025
If you’ve seen boxes of .30 Super Carry pop up in the handgun aisle and wondered what the deal is, here’s the straight take. Launched as a modern defensive cartridge for compact pistols, .30 Super Carry was designed to live between .380 ACP and 9mm—offering more capacity than 9mm in the same-size magazine while promising near-9mm performance with manageable recoil. On paper, that
8.6 BLK from Q: What It Is—and Why You Might Want to Try It
Posted by Blackstone Shooting Sports on Jul 24th 2025
If you’ve followed Q for any length of time, you’ve seen their push for 8.6 Blackout (8.6 BLK): a .338-caliber cartridge optimized for short barrels, heavy bullets, and suppression—basically a “big-brother” concept to 300 BLK, but in the AR-10/bolt-gun world. Q backs the caliber with ready-to-run firearms, barrels, and support gear directly through their storefront, s
 
 
                