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Factory .30 cal 110 gr softpoints are, terminal-ballistically speaking, more than adequate for use on 2-legged varmints, and I wouldn't hesitate to use one to take deer-sized game out to 75 yards. Handloading could stretch that to 100 yards, if one had a mind to...
M1 carbines are a blast. I agree wholeheartedly with the good doctor. I have a friend who used to hunt every year with a 30 caliber M1 Carbine (IBM mfg.). He put deer in the freezer every year with it. After my late uncle got busted up in a sawmill accident, he hunted with a .30 carbine as that was easier for him to carry. I loaded his ammo with a decent bullet and he had no trouble taking deer at typical woods range.
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I remember magazine ads from the late sixties or early seventies for the Teflon-coated/varied color ones that someone was offering. They featured a drawing of one of the hale and hearty outdoorsmen typical of the time pushing through pine boughs in pursuit of deer.
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dont hunt with it much, but still for plinkin... Iver Johnson stainless paratrooper.
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It's as big a piece of schitt as the M16...and other 'bastard' throw-offs!
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I always wanted one, $100 bucks was just way too much, so I had to go without.
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hmmm...need to go shoot mine...
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I always wanted one, $100 bucks was just way too much, so I had to go without. I well remember when the DCM was selling them for $10 each back in the early 60's. I didn't have ten bucks to spare back then.
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Killed my first deer with a .30 carbine. DRT.
Paid $75 for it in 1979.
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Its all right to be white!! Stupidity left unattended will run rampant Don't argue with stupid people, They will drag you down to their level and then win by experience
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I always wanted one, $100 bucks was just way too much, so I had to go without. I well remember when the DCM was selling them for $10 each back in the early 60's. I didn't have ten bucks to spare back then. just gonna say I can remember $40-$50 range
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Funny if you look at it. Some folks actually believed they were a good infantry rifle yet the same fellas don't think it is powerful enough for deer. Jim, my dad had an m1 carbine that lived on the tractor. He killed quite a few deer with it on the farm. We had crop damage permits to shoot them in the summer. And he liked that because he had one issued to him in the service and bexause it was short, light and he disnt care if it got covered in cow schit
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bcp - is that amound of his own poop he's sitting on? Gutsy dude. He's probably sittin' on his giant brass balls.
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Had a neighbor whose farm I used to trap and hunt on. He had one he just loved. He kept it close at hand with a couple of magazines handy. Any time a coyote came within sight he would start rattling off rounds in the coyote's general direction. I don't recall him ever hitting one but he would always be laughing and making the comment that no matter how many rounds he fired the coyotes would always find another gear for every shot. He was a fun neighbor and a good friend. I think he was disappointed one day when I was there and dropped a coyote with one shot with my 6mm before he could get the carbine out. After that I just let him shoot any time a coyote showed up.
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I have a 30 Carbine with a slightly bent barrel. I bought it two years ago, it came with 600 rounds of 110 grn metal case UMC.
I have never fired it. Any suggestions about a source for a new barrel?
criterion barrel, try the civilian marksmanship program a.k.a. the c.m.p.
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One problem was the bullet, the 110 grain soft points were sort of slow to expand past 40 or 50 yards. Isn''t the problem that the 30 carb is more like a pistol than a rifle cartridge? So I would treat it like a 9mm pistol. Anything that you would hunt with a 9mm would be perfect for the 30 carb. Deer would be out smaller stuff would be good though. IMHO. While it might work for deer and bigger stuff in a pinch. It would not be my choice as the risk of wounding and losing an animal that sze is pretty high. a 9mm pistol runs at about 1200fps, the carbine at 2000fps.
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Interesting article... I"ve only talked to vets that used it from the Korean war, and to the last one they all said it was gimme an M1 anyday. Evidently the round did not do well for one shot stops especially against the heavily clothed Chinese troops... while they'd shoot one and knock him down, he'd be right back up again. One Staff Sgt even said he preferred the 45... But its all I heard, I have no personal experience of course. i've heard that too, and heard the answer. Skinny chinaman in a quilted bunny suit, bullet not hit mr chinnyman.
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Moose or anything else in MT would be legal.
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These were made for shooting around doors in WWII city fighting. A rare collector.
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It's as big a piece of schitt as the M16...and other 'bastard' throw-offs! \ Willing to stand in front of either? I didn't think so.
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