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#10MinuteTalk - The .30 RAR: The Saddest Lead Balloon

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4.91.5K Ratings

🗓️ 29 December 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Summary

The .30 Remington AR had everything going for it and everything going against it at the same time. Compare it to modern cartridges like .300 BLK, and it leaves one scratching their head as to why it just never took off. Timing is everything and the .30 RAR was ahead of its time. Tune in to hear about this cool cartridge few ever heard about.

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0:00.0

what is up everybody happy holidays and merry christmas welcome back to our holiday cartridge talk

0:10.0

series guys uh you remember the movie back to the future one yeah yeah martin mcfly goes back in time

0:18.9

and kind of at the grand finale he's on the stage playing some

0:22.6

just insane rock and roll electric guitar riff yeah and then the crowd goes silent it's absolute

0:30.2

crickets and he says I guess you guys aren't ready for this but your kids are going to love it

0:36.4

I feel like that is a parallel story to

0:40.8

the cartridge that we're going to talk about today, which is indeed a lead balloon. So letty, Ryan,

0:49.4

we couldn't even get one here to show to talk about it. We've got a couple on the table here.

0:55.6

We're just, we're bracketing this thing.

0:57.6

When you say we have a couple on the table,

0:58.7

it's not even what we're talking about.

0:59.7

These are, these are, these are,

1:01.3

Mark.

1:01.5

Yeah, these are other cartridges.

1:03.3

These are other cartridges that are some old,

1:05.5

some I would say pretty darn new.

1:07.8

Yeah.

1:08.3

Relatively, yeah. And this one that we're talking about kind of falls right in the middle of the whole mix.

1:14.0

Mark came down to my desk.

1:15.8

This was, I think, shortly after we had selected the cartridges for the hard, call it,

1:22.0

what am I trying to say?

1:22.9

Holiday cartridge talk.

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