Top 5 9mm Carbines

Am Shooting Journal ^ | 5/7/2017 | J Hines

[w1n1]

Here's the top 5 9mm Carbines out on the market. These carbines are popular by the quality, ease of use, personal defense capability and of course the availability of the 9mm rounds.

What about you?, whats your favorite 9mm carbine? See the rest of the top 9mm carbine video here.

[marktwain]

I will NEVER understand why the M1 Carbine was not chambered in .45 ACP, unless the entire thing was a pork barrel boondoggle to create a cartridge and sole source prodution to political friends or some such idiocy.

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The Carbine was designed, in part, to overcome all the limitations of the .45 ACP.

Things like:

Extremely limited range. The carbine had twice the effective range of the .45 ACP in a long gun, four times the effective range of the .45 ACP in a pistol.

Much lighter ammunition. A combat soldier could carry twice the ammunition.

Much better penetration and energy for the .30 carbine. The .45 ACP’s lack of penetration in even fairly light cover was legendary.

While not necessarily a factor if the Carbine were chambered in .45 ACP, the Carbine itself was only half the weight of the Thompson.

If you wanted a .30 Carbine in .45 ACP in WWII, you basically had one in the Reising Models 50, 55, and 60.

But the Reising developed a reputation for poor reliability and fragility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M50_Reising

The .45 ACP is good pistol cartridge, a poor rifle cartridge.

The .30 carbine is an OK rifle cartridge, a so-so pistol cartridge. The military never chambered the .30 carbine in a pistol.

It was not meant as only a short range weapon, but as one that could increase the effective range of a pistol by about 4X, because a rifle is so much easier to shoot. To get the effective range, you need a cartridge with twice the velocity of the .45 ACP.

[Big Red Badger]

Great Synopsis!
I have likened the .30 carbine
to .22 long RIFLE.
My “go to round” is .38/.357 mag
Because of the flexibility
of bullets and availability.

[Big Red Badger]

Also 9mm has always been thought of
As a .38 Short.

[TnTnTn]

Glad to see the HiPoint carbines get their due. Mine is a .45 and it is accurate and reliable with about the best warranty in the industry. Yeah it is ugly but so am I-we both work well!

[dangerdoc]

I bought mine in 9mm to plink when .22 dried up. Nice shooter! I ended up putting a flashlight on it for coyote duty when I lived in the sticks.

[Nailbiter]

for later perusal