Posted on 08/18/2017 3:57:43 PM PDT by VR-21
Glad to help, have fun with your new gun(errr weapon that is, an old DI is glaring down at me 8-P)
Congrats on your new M1!
Sadly, I don’t have one or much to offer, except a story from a friend of mine. His Dad was a doctor in the Aleutians during WWII, and the biggest danger they had was polar bears.
Well, they quickly discovered that their M1 Carbines only made the bears mad, so if a bear was wandering around the base, they would hide in their tents and chuck grenades at it until it went away.
Anyway, I hope you enjoy yours a lot. I’d love to get one, but given prices and ammunition, I’d rather have an M1A or something more potent (with a more useable ammo supply).
Carbines are great. Fun to shoot and easier to score hits with than a sidearm. Never had problems with GI extractors, but all the ones I’ve fired weren’t reliable with aftermarket 30 round magazines. Korean made magazines seemed good to go.
You’ll hear people say the round is a pipsqueak, hardly more dangerous than a Red Ryder.
Read up on Jim Cirilo, Audie Murphy and John George. They would all take exception, and so would the men they killed with the pipsqueak rifle.
Same here, overworked and under paid.
Always try several types of rounds before buying bulk. It took a while to find out my Rossi Carbine (chambered for .357 and 38 Spec) fed Blazer .357 rounds better than others which tended to try to hang up when levering them in. Got some Blazer .357 round just for the carbine and use others in the handgun.
I believe that was with the 357 Maximum a round I have zero experience with that one but my 30’s show no cutting.....Another little toy I seen the other day was a 30 Carbine round loaded with a 200 grain round nose. It was being used in a Suppressed Thompson Center Contender. He was getting 900 fps and was amazingly quiet. His plans are to build a suppressed 30 Carbine.
Amen to that last sentence; those guys would know.
Regarding reliability with 30 round mags...replace the magazine catch with an M2 catch...problem solved.
PRVI Partisan soft point ammo is excellent, with consistent accuracy and excellent terminal performance. Agree with replacing the magazine catch which has an extra shoulder to hold the 30 round mags in place during recoil. Keep the extractor clean and lubed before you go complaining about aftermarket mags (been there done that.)
Yeah I was spared the 30 rnd mag reliability headache by my uncle (FBI certified firearms instructor, former NSW vet, former LEO and all-around savage) on that and more.
The M1 Carbine is very underrated, IMHO.
I stand corrected. It was the 357 Maximum I was thinking about. That Contender round sounds wicked.
Cabela’s sold a one of a kind collector M-1 Garand last year with 500 rounds of S&B. In the first 100 rounds there was a double charge that blew the side of the housing out and destroyed the beautiful walnut stock. Unrepairable. That tells me quality control is not good.
When it comes to ammo screwing up I don’t take any chances. Its lucky the incident happened in a Garand. They are built like a tank. Any regular bolt action weapon it would have come out like a hand grenade and caused serious injury.
One of my favorite firearms is my 94 Winchester chambered for .357 Mag. When I clocked my loads (I use 158gr. Hornady XTP’s over some 2400) I was astonished at how much higher velocity they had out of the rifle. They will literally hit (with good accuracy) as hard at 150 yards as a 4” revolver will across a card table. No feeding or reliability issues either. I absolutely love that rifle, and when paired with my S&W Highway Patrolman I feel rich and good looking (and well armed).
I'd like to find something that has the quality of a good AR but the looks of an M1 carbine or a mini-14: full wood stock, none of the "tactical" bling bling.
Any suggestions??
Yowzer. I’ll make sure not to put any of that in my 1903.
Ruger mini30 ranch .. wood stock, garand action, 7.62x39
The carbine has a small stock and the .357 rounds can beat you up a bit after a while. It is a lot more docile when using 38 Special rounds. My rounds are more docile but I reckon they would take a deer out as far as 150 yards - if one is good enough with the iron sights. Got it more on a whim than with thought of any real utility - but a firearm is a firearm.....the lever action helped round out my "arsenal"...
Well, a mini 14 or an M1 carbine, I guess. Why the fascination with wood?
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