CALIBER 30 CARBINE
#2
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Havre de Grace MD USA
Posts: 703
RE: CALIBER 30 CARBINE
With factory loadings they only produce around 800-900 foot pounds of energy and that is at the muzzle. So I would say no. I also wanted to use this round/gun for a quick handling deer rifle, but was cautioned otherwise.
#6
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: MISSOURI
Posts: 1,157
RE: CALIBER 30 CARBINE
I have a friend that let his duaghter shoot a deer with one last year and the deer ran off and was killed the next day by someone else we went to look and found the bullet had just broken the shoulder blade and never went in the body cavity . That is at 50 yards !!! Not enough gun in my opinion
#8
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Kilauea Hawaii Hawaii, USA
Posts: 155
RE: CALIBER 30 CARBINE
What gun is it? Mini-30? Lever action ruger?
That round is a popular round for blocking trail for pigs here in hawaii. If you hit the animal in the "drop them in their tracks area" (spine/vertibrae)then they will drop in their tracks. If you hit them in the lungs, I'm sure they will go down too within a reasonable distance... maybe not, I have no experience. But it is a short range gun. A good gun for still hunting in thick cover but a horible round for shooting long distance such as over fields. 100 yards would be a far shot for one but you probably could still crack the spine and drop them even at that distance. I wouldn't shoot for the lungs over 75 yards. Not that I know what I'm talking about or nothing because I've never used one but they are one of the most popular rounds down here for pigs out of a mini-30.
That round is a popular round for blocking trail for pigs here in hawaii. If you hit the animal in the "drop them in their tracks area" (spine/vertibrae)then they will drop in their tracks. If you hit them in the lungs, I'm sure they will go down too within a reasonable distance... maybe not, I have no experience. But it is a short range gun. A good gun for still hunting in thick cover but a horible round for shooting long distance such as over fields. 100 yards would be a far shot for one but you probably could still crack the spine and drop them even at that distance. I wouldn't shoot for the lungs over 75 yards. Not that I know what I'm talking about or nothing because I've never used one but they are one of the most popular rounds down here for pigs out of a mini-30.
#9
Typical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Havre de Grace MD USA
Posts: 703
RE: CALIBER 30 CARBINE
The gun in question is the military M1 claiber .30 carbine.
A Mini 30 shoots the Russian 7.63x39 which is on par with a 30-30 Win. round in terms of power and could be a great close-up "pig" round
A Mini 30 shoots the Russian 7.63x39 which is on par with a 30-30 Win. round in terms of power and could be a great close-up "pig" round