[harpseal]

I really like my old .30 carbine. In younger days I dropped deer with that rifle using 110 grain hollow points. I found it as good as a the venerable old .30-30 for deer in the NH woods where 100 yards was a long shot. Light and reliable it did the job for years.

Stay well - Stay safe - Stay armed - Yorktown

[.30Carbine]

Thanks for all your good and helpful comments to me, harpseal.
I wish you all that's blessed and all the best for the new year.

[archy]

I really like my old .30 carbine. In younger days I dropped deer with that rifle using 110 grain hollow points. I found it as good as the venerable old .30-30 for deer in the NH woods where 100 yards was a long shot. Light and reliable it did the job for years.

A GI carbine beats any 9mm machinepistol for closeup work, and only the lack of a decent-feeding jacketed hollowpoint bullet of the Black Talon/Hydra-Shok/Golden Sabre sort to make it a near-ideal choice for such use- and its muzzle flash at night is pretty spectacular with some loads.

But nevertheless, it remains the choice for the Israeli Mishmar Israchi Ma'shaz armed police reservists, and though they're running out of M1 carbines for theat force, they've obtained a modified Israeli Galil design Ma'Gal rifle in the same caliber, also using the carbine's magazines, as ideal for their purpose. And many of Israel's kibbutz armories still include U.S. carbines in their racks, lighter and with longer range than the common Israeli Uzi SMG.

The M1 carbine has been the choice of knowledgable users for some 60 years now, and is still going strong. And that little 110-grain bullet it pushes is coming from a cartridge meant to be used in a 16-inch barrel, unlike some *tactical rifles* whose ballistic performance suffers dreadfully when used in shorty carbine versions of the rifles they were originally designed for.

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