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Tornadoes are strange and wicked beasts. They will destroy entire neighborhoods, lift over a single house, then annihilate a few more city blocks. The typical path is usually less...

With the correct ammunition like Speer Gold Dot, Federal Power-Shok, or the pricey Corbon DPX it makes a great piggie stomper. The FMJ stuff will obviously do a pig in, but it may not do enough...

The issue of penetration with the little 30 carbine can certainly be put to rest. At 130 yards a Remington soft point left a silver dollar size exit wound on a midsize Texas whitetail. It was a front...

I was happy to hit the clay pigeons at 200 yards but it took a few shots. I don't expect to do it regularly. The hit/miss ratio is not kind to the ammo supply.

I imagine a *GASP* red dot on an Ultimak rail would make these things just as quick (or quicker than) the M4 wannabes that all of the tacticool "operators" use at the carbine matches.

After using...

I put 65 rounds through it today.
I have a rifle I've taken out to 1,000 yards. My regular 100 yard targets for it are the 1/2" smiley faces I showed in another post. That rifle is accurate.
The...

oops. Sorry if that sounded rude. I certainly didn't intend to be nasty.

I appreciate your input. Honestly, I don't care where the GI ammo comes in. I'm a reloader. 30 carbine has become so expensive ($27/box) that it's silly for me not to reload. Knowing that these are...

Cabellas had this Inland and two Universals all tagged at $399. I'm sure they still have a Universal if you're interested. :D

I took the little guy out to the range today. It digested everything I...

Once again, you guys are right. There is a faint PI stamped inside the slide. I had to take some heavy duty bore cleaner and an old bore brush to the inside of the slide to find the mark. I dried off...

Isn't this an Underwood slide?

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You guys definitely seem to know your stuff. it's amazing how different books have different answers.

I get the feeling this carbine had a pretty boring life.There's not much wear except for the...

Thanks for the info.

Do you know anything about that barrel band?

This Inland puts me in a bit of a bind. The biggest reason for me buying a commercial carbine was to use it as a truck gun. I wasn't going to beat it up but if it got a ding here and a scratch there...

oopsie!
I had the pic of the barrel band online but I forgot to link it. Here ya go:

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As for a...

I was wrong. It's not a pot belly stock. I compared it to the one on my Iver and this one is the standard profile.

My Iver was running just fine prior to the match and I haven't fired it since.
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Okay guys. You've been after me to get an actual factual gin-you-wine gubment carbine that our soldier boys done trained with.
So I did.

A friend stopped by Cabellas in FTW today and found...

I put an ad in the WTB area for some magazines.

My rear sight was staked. The peep is loose in the base and the base is loose in the dovetail. I haven't tried to stake it again. At this point it...

Wow! It looks like you had a nice stash going. Sorry to hear it had to go away to cover expenses. That's never fun.
I'm not much of a magazine collector for any of my guns. I have 6 mags for my...

There are a few on the auction sites. Naturally, the cheap mags are rough. They're also of unknown condition.
I thought about getting a couple from Numrich too.

I never replaced the wiggly rear...

I have had good luck with the Hornady 100 gr short jacket bullets. They do not have a ball profile. My experience shows them to be more jam resistant due to the narrow point being harder to stop than...

Thanks for the lead. I'll talk to him about some magazines.

I removed the barrel skirt on my lathe. The head space is good and the front sight is 1 degree off to the right. Trying to face the...

I do appreciate the info so far.

I experienced lots of base over bolt failures when building this thing. There were failures to extract and failures to feed.
After installing and head spacing...

I went to my first carbine match last night. I took my IJ mutt along for the ride. Some of you may remember my little adventure building this thing. After the build was done I had a good running...

He didn't see one of these and get a bit corn-fused did he?

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