Putting the M1 Carbine in the Right Context

[INLAND44]

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.

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[vintage hunter]

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.