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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: MountainWalk on April 14, 2008, 10:05:35 AM

Title: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: MountainWalk on April 14, 2008, 10:05:35 AM: any of you do any hunting with a .30 carbine? i grew up with a pair of them, but never deer hunted with them. also found out not much good for coyotes past 75. long track job. they are a fun gun to shoot tho. one of these days i will go back to ark and get most all of my hardware. one carbine is a #'s matching rock-ola, and the other is a springfield.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: thinkingman on April 14, 2008, 02:41:33 PM: SPRAY AND PRAY
Unless they have sentimental value, sell them now(prices are crazy) and buy something you can use.
They are neat little guns but don't do much, and ammo prices aren't that cheap anymore.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: MountainWalk on April 14, 2008, 03:37:36 PM: no thanks. not selling them anytime soon. fine example of American wartime ingenouitey?.
i believe i read somewhere that it was the us's most produced weapon..
anyhow, dont think i would get rid of them unless someone waved a wad of cash in front of me..

they are fun to shoot and play with. anyone else have or used to have one?

spray and pray?.. actually , for a gun with such loose tolerances, they can be a suprisingly accurate. my rock-ola was especially superbly accurate.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: boneaddict on April 14, 2008, 03:52:17 PM: Is that the same as the M1 carbine?
My Grandfather in law sort of...had one. He repaired tanks and was part of Pattons troop. It was what he carried in WWII. I'm not sure if that was a .30 carbine or an M1 or what. Still had two magazines flip flopped and taped togetehr with electrical tape. Idabooner had a bucnh of ammunition loaded up for him and we got to shoot it a couple wintery days up in the Methow.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: MountainWalk on April 14, 2008, 04:42:58 PM: without actually seeing it, bone, im sure its a carbine.. cant tape garand mags together....
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: boneaddict on April 14, 2008, 08:01:36 PM: fomr Idabooner
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Archie had the 30 carbine, I have the dies for it. The M 1 is a 30-06, about 9 lbs. worth. The carbine was developed in WWII, 1940 for in house fighting, plinking is about all it's good for. Not very accurate. For comparison at 100 yds it has 500 ft. lbs energy, where the 30-30 has 1140 ft. lbs.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: MountainWalk on April 15, 2008, 01:13:08 AM: mine must be an exception. i find the peep sights on these things are quite nice.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: boneaddict on April 15, 2008, 06:00:06 AM: IT was a fun gun to shoot, especially with the history behind it. He liked it because it was compact for going in adn out of tanks etc.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: mossback91 on April 15, 2008, 07:58:18 AM: Dang they are selling for alot fo money I just looked at that.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: boneaddict on April 15, 2008, 08:35:56 AM: I wish I had his. I don't know what happened to it. Maybe my brother got it. :dunno:
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: thinkingman on April 15, 2008, 04:06:32 PM: Quote from: mossback91 on April 15, 2008, 07:58:18 AM
Dang they are selling for alot fo money I just looked at that.
Yeah! It's a sellers market....I say sell it and buy a nice AR.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: MountainWalk on April 15, 2008, 04:43:29 PM: sell em and buy an ar? are you kidding me? ugghh!

i was offered, two years ago, 1500 for the rock-ola one. some fellow trying to buy all the ww2 stuff he could.. told em no way. from what i hear, they really are tearing up the market..
i talked to my g-pa.. he said most marines hated the damn thing. too weak.. he said the ones in the rear liked it a bunch. no substitute for the old garand.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: mossback91 on April 15, 2008, 04:54:02 PM: sell em and buy some mules!...and hay
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: GoldTip on May 02, 2008, 02:06:03 PM: I've got one, and I believe it is an Inland brand of some sort, researched it and found it was made by GM. Sounds like now may be the time to sell the thing, what are they going for?
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: Idabooner on May 02, 2008, 02:41:28 PM: .30 carbine is the weapon I carried in Germany, 58-59, as a field vehicle mechanic, much easier to maneuver around in tanks and howitzers with.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: cascademountainhunter on May 22, 2008, 07:42:19 PM: my cousin has a .30 carbine but he doesnt hunt with it.
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: Intruder on May 30, 2008, 11:09:58 AM: I don't think they have too much value as a hunting gun. From a story I heard they weren't much of a combat weapon either.

When I was in college the store I worked at used to sell them (old surplus from wwII and Korea maybe???). Anyway, one day this old vet walks and and tells me how bad they were. He said he shot a guy 2 times right in the boilerroom with 1 and the fella kept comin at him. :mgun2:
Ended up using it as a club to clobber the guy... he said they were great clubs. :chuckle:
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: Sideswipe on June 02, 2008, 08:50:51 PM: Hey Mtnwlkr, I got a Rock-Ola too-1943 model. I paid a whole $ 27 for it thru the NRA in '62 when I was pack'in an M-14 for Uncle Sam. It was fun in the 60's to out in the desert NW of San Berdernadino, CA & pop jack rabbits w/it. I would have to chk in the WAC or RCW to see if it's puny ft-lbs of energy is legal as a big game weapon in WA. Might be good for a trapper to carry (what the heck do I know about trapping?). Of course I have shot Blacktails & Black Bears w/my SKS (not anymore mind you).

I'm torn between keeping it for sentimental value (I never shoot it anymore) or turn it into $ towards a 308 Marlin. My wife is on to me though-she said I don't need another rifle-ever hear that hunters?. Actually a new rifle always changes my luck if I am in a "slump".
Title: Re: .30 carbine. any real use for it?
Post by: lee1sfga on November 20, 2010, 08:44:41 PM: Was in special forces in Viet Nam didnt like the .30 carbine. Metal jacket didnt have enought knock down power for what ever you were shooting. Might as well throw rocks.