I just bought a Box of Ammo the gunsmith recommended for the M1 Carbine. At my Ranch I have Hogs Everywhere. I cant't wait to try them out. There expensive though 100 gr. Hollow Points. Velocity 2025 fps - 911 ft/lbs they ought to work just fine.
I like the article, EXCEPT he compares the 30 carbine to a 357 magnum. A 30 carbine still has more energy at 100 yards than the average .357 magnum load does at the muzzle. Hornady 110 Critical defense moves at about 2000fps and it absolutely devastating. I am thinking of getting a couple boxes and loading out the carbine with them for my house weapon. Also, Speer Gold dot 100s are pretty darn good, too. Even the venerable Remington 110 JSPs I've used to kill deer well at 100 yards.
I'm just starting to get books, videos and magazines. I should have my Dillon real soon. So there is so much I've been reading and found a person here in my town that's willing to show and help me out. I want to get into reloading real bad. I've been reading a lot of old posts about reloading. I know it takes awhile to learn, but it should be fun and to me it will be a great hobby to make my own reloads.
Here's an interesting clip from a "Weaponolgy" episode about French Foreign Legion weapons. They shoot clay blocks with the M1 Carbine and surprise the shooter, who had previously referred to the M1 Carbine round as a "pistol round!" It starts at about minute 5.0+.
Cool vid. Now make it a semi-jacketed hollow point and imagine what happens. I had a case of these made many years ago when I thought I would have a tactical use for the carbine, which became too valuable over the years to use in that capacity. But I still have the ammo, which was made by the best loader there ever was in the area. Speer #1835 110 gr HP in Nickel brass.
I got started loading for the carbine in the late 80's with one of those Lee Loaders and that's the first bullet I tried. Over 15.0gr W296 it made a fine deer or small/medium pig hunting load and will normally leave an exit wound about the size of a 50 cent piece. I've lost count of the critters I've taken with the little .30 carbine since getting my first one in 1988. A conservative guess would be at least 50-60 head of deer and hogs, then there's the smaller stuff from coons down to squirrels. Got an uppity bass with it once after it turned it's nose up at every lure I had in the tackle box. Fried bass nuggets, Mmmm.
Then there's the 50 pound alligator turtle I got one hot summer day whilst trying to ambush some pigs out for their daily roll in the mud hole, the one and only otter I've ever shot, quite a few beavers that were plugging up drain pipes or tunneling into pond dams and no telling how many water moccasins along the way.
Last edited by vintage hunter; 08-17-2015 at 09:50 PM.
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