In Case You Forgot Why We Love The Carbine

[imarangemaster]

Here is an earlier thread of mine with some excellent videos showing the M1 Carbines capability.

https://www.milsurps.com/showthread.php?t=50674

[pocketshaver]

Its a dyeing gun in reality. Its a damn good cartridge. who doesn't want a pistol cartridge that can use light 110 grain bullets and generate as much muzzle energy as a 44 magnum with 240 grain soft points?

IN reality, the 300 black out has most likely replaced it in its given role, and the ability to use 220 grain bullets kind of makes you rethink heavy and long bullet versus short and fast...

[browningautorifle]

Its a dyeing gun in reality.

Collectors will be knocking down doors for decades yet to get them...

[JimF4M1s (Deceased)]

I like it because it saved my life in VN, more than once.
Ammo was cheap for a while, then started to get pricey. Straight cases are easy to reload your empties with Dillon equipment. Berry makes a good bullet that sells at $91 for 1000 or 9.1 cents each. No reason to run out of ammo.

[imarangemaster]

I also like the Rainier plated bullets, just a s cheap. 14.6 grains of WW296, and they print the same POA/POI as the 110 Remingtons.

[INLAND44]

Its a dyeing gun in reality. Its a damn good cartridge. who doesn't want a pistol cartridge that can use light 110 grain bullets and generate as much muzzle energy as a 44 magnum with 240 grain soft points?

IN reality, the 300 black out has most likely replaced it in its given role, and the ability to use 220 grain bullets kind of makes you rethink heavy and long bullet versus short and fast...

If 7.62x39 did not replace the .30 Carbine, neither will .300BLK, which is most useful with a suppressor in the subsonic loading. As a full-speed rifle round, .300 and 7.62x39 are ballistically very similar.

[imarangemaster]

I am a fan of the 7.62x39 round, even though I am not a fan of the AK platform (even though I have had a bunch of them through the years) To me the Mini-30 is the perfect platform for the 7.62x39. The carbine is about 5.5 pounds, whereas the Mini-30 runs about 7.0 pounds. To me, I'd rather tote the M1 Carbine in the woods any day! BTW, I would love to get a walnut stock for the Mini-30 some day.....

M1 carbine:



Ruger MIni-30:

[jimb16]

The 300 B.O. has more versatility than the carbine, and with light bullets, a bit more power. But it generally doesn't have the "curb appeal" of that old war horse. I have both and love both of them, but there is still something about the feel of that old walnut stock. Plastic just doesn't feel quite right.