30 carbine on wolves 50-75 yards?

Ardent said:
The largest wolves in Canada inhabit the Peace and Athabasca basins, wood bison fed, and your geographic coordinates indicates you may travel 9 degrees north that way for work or hunting. Bear in mind you can't shoot off roads many places, applies to many a gravel road in BC too. Rifles I've used for wolf are .223, 7x57, .308, .375. Anything you can shoot at 200-300 without much setup is appropriate, if you post pics of a few bagged wolves with a .30 Carbine that weren't trapped I'll eat my hat. As suggested by another poster a Mini-14 is going to be way ahead of your M1 for the purpose. Good hunting to you.
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Gauntlet thrown down. Go for it popcan.
 
I would think a mini 30 might be just the ticket for close in moving wolves.........light semi in 7.62X39. I have taken a dozen or so and all have been inside 150 yds and one was at 10 feet, several were inside 75 yds. My biggest was a huge old spring male that weighed 157 lbs and skinny.........all mine have been shot with whatever hunting rifle I had in hand, the smallest being a 243 and the biggest was my 9.3X300, several with 7mm RM.
 
Ive had several come right under my stand while calling in northern Ontario. I was thinking a Jrc in 40 cal. The wolves I've shot 60 yards was the furthest. I normally use a 25/06. That lays them down. I'd say with good shooting a 30 cal will do just fine if shots are close. Think archery range limits
 
Most wolves we have taken were in the 200 yard range... a couple were in close, but I would never handicap myself with a .30 carbine.
 
Bowie said:
It worked fine on Koreans, Germans, Japanese, Italians and the Chinese. I imagine it would work on wolves as well.
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from what I have read in Korea it was not known as a man stopper. Apparently during the winter the Chinese had enough heavy cloths on at any distance the bullet was lucky to penetrate all the clothes.
that would be hard ball

So take this with a grain of salt. but I sure wouldn't depend on it for anything bigger then a wolf
 
chisholm said:
I had no clue there was so many professional wolf hunters on this forum.:rolleyes:
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Sum northern trappers ,farmers , hunting guides are professional wolf hunters but not all them
My salf just went out once hunting wolfs with a trapper it was One of the coolest hunts I bin on
But it was not Evan close to the excitement of hunting a Wolverine
we wear zig zag back and forth and kept circling each other up a valley near Prince Rupert BC don't know for sheer if I was hunting him or the other way around I was so scared and excited at the same time
 
wce323078 said:
from what I have read in Korea it was not known as a man stopper. Apparently during the winter the Chinese had enough heavy cloths on at any distance the bullet was lucky to penetrate all the clothes.
that would be hard ball

So take this with a grain of salt. but I sure wouldn't depend on it for anything bigger then a wolf
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That was a myth it penetrated the frozen material and exited on tests.........Harold
 
mbogo3 said:
That was a myth it penetrated the frozen material and exited on tests.........Harold[/QUOTE

My 'spermints" agree with this, both deer (100 yrd or less) I've shot with a carbine were thru & thru, broke ribs on both sides, both deer expired within three or four jumps.

The drawback I see with using a run-of-the-mill carbine is that some don't shoot so well, 3 in or bigger groups at 100. That won't be much of a hindrance on a full body deer but a woof has a much smaller "boiler room" .

My carbine has a Trade-Ex barrel and a scope installed and shoots consistent 1 in or so groups so I would be very confident with it but an ordinary issue carbine might have some drawbacks to consider... but it sure wouldn't be if it was powerful enough.
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The idea is fine but the gun is wrong. First you need one with a 19" barrel and accuracy ins only ok. At arrow range ok but why the limit. A good hunting rifle will make good practice on wolves. 243+ imho.
 
Here not so much wolf got a face to face went i fallow a buck (deer) track last year nice big grey/black wolf at maybe 20 yard he just look eye contact and sprint in track way i thing we just hunt for the same meat lol
But coyote here is always far from us so a good 223 for long shot is perfect to me
 
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Ardent said:
if you post pics of a few bagged wolves with a .30 Carbine that weren't trapped I'll eat my hat. Good hunting to you.
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well, this was only a theoretical question, and to see if anyone has tried it. As I said, I have better choices in the safe caliber-wise, but thought a small light auto loader like an M1 might be an interesting option.
I'd consider a mini 14.

BUT if I do happen to pot one with a .30 carbine, I will definitely post a pic for you!
 
30 on a wolf not a choice that would make sense.The mini 14 would be the second bad choice.But as always row the boat .
 
When I had my 50 acre farm in S. Ont, and used to hunt, I'd carry a M1A1 paratrooper thru the bush loaded with 110 gr HSP 30 carbine. Score M1A1 2, coyotes 0. Up close, maybe 25 yds. I know these aren't wolves, these mangy guys were about 35 lbs. Challenge was neighbours (safety) and I was worried about how far spent bullets might carry, so 30 carbine worked well for me.

Before that, on my uncle's farm in the Newcastle Ont area, I had a scoped 6.5 X 55 Swede Mauser 94, with Norma 138 gr SP. Worked well, still have it too.

I once saw a test of 30 carbine vs. 30-06 out of a Garand, close range (15 yds) on watermelons. Both hardpoint mil rds. 30 carbine blew up the watermelon, 30-06 went clean thru. So, foot lbs of energy doesn't always translate into destructive power. The reason the 30 carbine exploded the watermelon was due to the rounder nose of the bullet vs. the pointy one of the 30-06.
 
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