M1 Carbine plinking on a sunny Sunday...

[fortyshooter]

Had to go get the grass cut at the range and pulled out my Fulton Armory M1 Carbine to enjoy after the work was done. Been a while since I last shot it
and the ammo was 30 rounds of South Korea surplus ammo from the 80's. Bought a bunch of it several years ago and it shot great from an easy 25 yards plinking distance. Moved on to the steel targets and it was fun to get it out again and easy to shoot well.

[Travlin]

Forty, Are you sure that ammo is noncorrosive?

[Sir Henry]

The M1 Carbine has to be one of the greatest military firearms. Maybe the M2 is the only one that beats it.

[fortyshooter]

Forty, Are you sure that ammo is noncorrosive?

This is good safe ammo. The head stamp is PSD 86 with red sealed primers non corrosive and many good reports of it shooting well. I checked it out before I ordered it right before the big ammo shortage. Ammo is in 10 round stripper clips with the spoon and quick loading in the magazines. 1080 came in a large 50 cal. type ammo can and it weighs a ton!

[Sir Henry]

Forty, Are you sure that ammo is noncorrosive?

I don’t think any 30 Cal Carbine was corrosive.

[HenryFan]

No US made .30 Carbine ammo was corrosive, as I recall. During WW2, it was the only small arms ammo that was all non-corrosive.

Foreign made .30 Carbine ammo I don't know about but if I correctly understand fortyshooters post, it was made in 1986 so I thnk that Korean ammo would have been non-corrosive by then.

[Sir Henry]

No US made .30 Carbine ammo was corrosive, as I recall. During WW2, it was the only small arms ammo that was all non-corrosive.

Foreign made .30 Carbine ammo I don't know about but if I correctly understand fortyshooters post, it was made in 1986 so I thnk that Korean ammo would have been non-corrosive by then.

I know of no foreign made corrosive 30 cal although that doesn’t mean nobody made it. All Korean 30 cal carbine was non-corrosive and all Korean PS head stamp in all calibers was non-corrosive.

[Redthies]

The M1 Carbine has to be one of the greatest military firearms. Maybe the M2 is the only one that beats it.

It is definitely my favorite of all military arms. I had a Plainfield Machine M1 for a long time. I traded it for a nice Marlin. I loved that carbine, but it had no practical use for me, and as I’ve stated a million times, all my guns (that I pay for) need to have a purpose beyond being “cool”. There was also the sweeping move to restrict semi-auto centerfire ownership by our “government”, and I made 150% profit selling when I did. Once the semi-auto law came into effect, it was going to be close to worthless. The Marlin I traded for gets used every hunting season, and has doubled in value as well.

[fortyshooter]

Well it is selling for way more than I paid for it and if you bought most any gun before 2019 you most likely can make money on a sale.
https://www.fulton-armory.com/carbineuscal30m1.aspx

[Travlin]

I am glad that all that ammo has clean primers.When I was range officer at the local rifle range a man and his son set up to shoot a 30 carbine.He loaded a round , closed the bolt and silence. I went over to him and he asked me to look at it. Long story short I chambered a round, let the bolt slam shut and bang.