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Originally Posted by k9870
Yes. Ive heard .30 carbine jsp ammo makes great small game hunting ammo but the ball ammo was awful. Id rather have a m1 carbine than just a 1911 but id take a garand, bar or thomson over the carbine any day.
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In terms of weight, I'd take the M1 Carbine over the others. It only weighs five or six pounds, and a magazine loaded with 15 rounds weighs less than the other fully loaded mags. In terms of putting out a good volume of fire and not being weighed down too much, it has the advantage there. Most combat is more about supression than simply popping heads 300 yards out.
What I fail to see is why the .30 Carbine round is knocked so. It's a pistol caliber, and compared to rounds like the 9mm or 7.62x25mm Tokarov of the time, it was an effective bullet to put out of a rifle barrel, it had some extra powder behind it. If a bullet has enough in it to punch through a person, it did it's job. Bleeding, injury, and death can still occur. And if you can carry so many 15 round magazines for it, it does what needs being done.
In later years, old age made them less sound, but at the time they were extremely reliable, and for most firefight ranges it could hit it's mark (During the Normandy invasion, a lot of house to house fighting in French towns was a good place for it.)