There were days when you could buy cheap Israeli 30 Carbine ammo by the crate and shoot it all day long with nary a worry about price. My Dad loves telling me about it, specifically his long lazy afternoons with a M1 Carbine plinking tin cans off a fence. Those days are long gone, cheap Israeli ammo having dried up ages ago and the only thing left these days is Prvi, S&B and some other rather expensive ammo. So why you would want a rifle in 30 Carbine that isn’t an M1 or an AR-15 conversion is beyond me. But then again, it appears to be selling.
Some fellas simply have an affinity for certain cartridges. Personally if I was to go the .30 Carbine route I’d love to have an old Automag III.
I’ve been next to one of those on a range several times.
Muzzle bloom like an artillery piece. Holy crap, do they light up the noontime sky…
H110/W296 type powders do a great job of that don’t they?
An M-2 used to be my EDC, it, along with some Purple Haze was handy for breaking contact in deep cover and tacticly superior to a handgun but now, 40 years later, it is a round whose practicality is in question. The same design in a pistol cartridge like 10mm seems to be a more realistic choice.
I always thought an M1 carbine would make a nifty home defense weapon, and a lot less expensive than many ARs.
For HD Hornady makes a Critical Defense load in .30 Carbine. Not cheap but I bet it performs well.
$15 for a box of 50 rounds of .30 carbine is expensive?
This. I have an M1 carbine, and I can find some Tula .30 carbine for $17/50 online. It’s a hell of a lot cheaper than 7.62 and 5.56 these days…
Depending on where I buy from, Tula and Aguila are about $15 per box (plus a few bucks for shipping multiple boxes). For something bigger than a pistol caliber cabine, I’d say it’s the best bang for your buck you’re going to get.
Love the M1 Carbine. Someone should make an authentic WW2-style model in a common pistol cartridge.
Hear hear. I’ll echo what was said above, somebody ought to crank one out in 10mm. I’d say 38 Super too, but all these calibers are a little a little pricier and harder to find than most us us would like.
Then again, the cheapest box of 9mm I’ve seen lately, and not easily, was $16, so everything is relative…
I love the M1 Carbine, and I love the .30 Carbine round. Such a peppy little round. M1 Carbines are like big overgrown pistols. I also like the Ruger Blackhawk in that round.
And yeah, .30 Carbine has (until the panic) been easier and cheaper to find than it was for awhile. Not too bad to reload, just needs trimmed once in awhile.
They released some new M1 Carbines up here with the appropriate barrel lengths but there were very few. Something like this is much more interesting to me.