Our old friend Jacob at the Widener’s blog sent over a link to a recent post: “Subsonic 300 Blackout Shootout“. Since Jacob is always nice about this, and always offers to send a caliber or two our way, we don’t mind giving him some linky love.
This is a matter of some interest to me: one of my recent purchases was a used T/C Contender. I bought it mostly for the frame (and feel like I got a good deal on it) but it came with a scoped .300 Blackout barrel. I’m giving serious thought to having that one threaded: it feels like it should be simple and cheap to have a Contender barrel threaded (though they are going to have to remove/replace/boresight the scope). I have not price checked this yet, mostly because I also don’t have a suppressor yet. (This may come as a shock to folks, especially with recent developments. But I only have one gun at the moment that’s threaded, so a suppressor has not been a priority for me.)
Over at the Revolver Guy blog, Mike Wood has written a very nice tribute to Evan Marshall, who passed away in September.
Mr. Marshall was a Detroit PD officer for 20 years. After his retirement, he did a lot of work as an advisor with various companies and organizations. He was pretty famous in the firearms community for his work studying terminal ballistics, and published (with Evan Sanow) three books on “stopping power”.
Mr. Wood includes some excellent quotes from Mr. Marshall, most of which I won’t reproduce here: I’d rather you go over to Revolver Guy, which you should be reading anyway. However, I will share one: