anyone hunt with a m1 carbine?

its been done but NOT recomended

its a 30. cal bullet too big fopr small game restrictions around me and NOT big enough for deer

yes i realize people in the U.S do hunt with them and a well placed shot would do but there are better guns out there! for hunting
 
It would have to be a non-restricted one. I have hunted hares with one. Worked OK. A .22 Magnum was better.
 
You must have a non restricted one and even then they are underpowered for anything but real close range and excellent shot placement. better use a SKS.
 
M1 Carbine Hunting

I went out hunting with an M1 Carbine when I was 20. That was about 33 years ago, and I took the heads off Partridge with it, an accurate little Winchester. I told my buddy that it would make a good gangrene gun, and if he wanted a deer he had better shoot it. My buddy had a 303 and I had the Carbine, I figured I could finish anything off that he shot.

Boy when you think back each of us has probably done some questionable things. I wasn’t seriously hunting; I was only out there for the exercise.
 
Never used one for hunting myself, but know a few folks who did, deer and coyotes in particular. The guy who used it on a deer only did so once, it was not a clean kill, and he felt that was the guns fault. The coyotes seemed to fall readily. mind you all these M1 Carbs were chambered for 30 Carb, nothing else.
 
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Nice story albayo, I can definatly agree with you that we've all probably done something questionable ;)

Your story about the partridge made me think:
If only Turkey hunting with a rifle was legal. My M1 would be devestating.
 
+2 Albayo, but I also used to use one in a tree stand where the shots were no more than 50 m, worked fine with 110 speer hollow points. Also a good rifle for cougar in a tree. One of the locals around here has a sweet little mini mauser that had been a 223 and converted to 30m1 and uses it for cougar, light, accurate enough for the job and not nasty enough to blow big holes in the hides. bearhunter
 
I nailed a groundhog at 20 yrds with a soft point a good solid hit but it took a head shot to finish him off ..he was quite fat ..but that gun is waay underpowered for a clean kill that was the one and only time I hunted with the carbine
 
I used my non-rest NPM M1 Carbine for a couple seasons of deer out here in AB, and although I didn't get anything, I had a bit of a nagging doubt as to whether I could hit the sweet spot right before having to spend 8 hours chasing the bugger through the bush. I decided to follow my gut and went back to my tried and true 1894 30WCF last year.
 
Before they were declared to be evil, I used mine for ground hogs, regularly. 110 grain HP's with IMR4227 will blow a hole the size of a grapefruit in a ground hog.
Factory hunting ammo is made to the same specs as military ball. It's no good for hunting anything but small game and varmints. Good hands loads are just fine for deer sized game. Shot placement is, of course, critical.
Milsurp ball is illegal for hunting.
 
a 110gr bullet has LESS THEN 1000ft.lbs at the muzzle. 1/2 of what a .30-30 has.

I wouldn;t hunt anything bigger then a coyote with it.
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+1,and then,maybe no farther then say 100yds or so.
its in the same class as the .38spc,its not much bigger,a spent case of .30car will fit in a spent .357mag case.
If that means anything to you.
 
bearhunter said:
One of the locals around here has a sweet little mini mauser that had been a 223 and converted to 30m1
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I never tried it as anything but a loaded dummy, but I have to admit a 30 Carb with a 155HPBT is a SWEET looking round :)
 
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