Ammo has been available in recent years at retail shops and gun shows, also through Civilian Marksmanship Program http://thecmp.org/cmp_sales/ammo-parts-accessories/. Typical price is $.50/round.
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It's rimmed. Muzzle velocity of the Carbine is 2,000fps from an 18" barrel. While a .357 might be loaded for a carbine, rimmed cartridges are not the best choice for a box magazine of up to 50 rounds which was anticipated.Never quite understood-why the .30 Carbine round when the .357 was already available. The platform notwithstanding (excellent by all accounts) It seems wasteful to come up with a new round when all the infrastructure is already available in something else.
Feel free to school me...
The short version of several long books...I really have not found much on the "development" of the 30 carbine that spells out the how and why they came up with it.....
The Carbine does it all, Paul. Plinking, home defense or even hunting, with the right bullets of course. Ammunition is reasonably priced and can be reloaded without breaking the bank. Who could ask for anything more?
The US Military?
The .30 round was found to be not effective enough which is the reason of the development of the M16. Enemy was being shot with the carbine and getting back up again.
Jason... this is BS.. Tell you what...let me shoot you with a M1 carbine and see you get up.....then I will believe your comment and statement ! LOL
Here is the basis for most of the criticism of the M1 Carbine. After WWII Springfield Armory began a project to refurbish M1 Garands and rebuilt roughly 500,000 of them. But there was no similar program for M1 Carbines. When Carbines were sent to Korea it was found many were in poor repair, the action did not cycle reliably in very cold weather if over-lubricated, and the ranges in Korea were substantial.Jason... this is BS.. Tell you what...let me shoot you with a M1 carbine and see you get up.....then I will believe your comment and statement ! LOL
The .30 round was found to be not effective enough which is the reason of the development of the M16. Enemy was being shot with the carbine and getting back up again.
I bought a case of Lake City from CMP a year or two ago. Who reloads M1 Carbine? I've been saving the brass.
"If anyone shot at a North Korean Commie and he didn’t go down, it was because they missed him."
That was CPT Lahm's assessment.
Also part that if someone was an actual infantry man they carried a garand. No body gets overly nostalgic about shooting grandpa the cooks m1 the same way they shoot grandpa the gis garand.
There were many stories about the bullet bouncing off frozen quilted fabric that the Koreans wore. Supposedly bounced of two layers of frozen denim as well. Anecdotal stories for sure but there has to be some truth behind them.