And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
As a child of WWII, I was fascinated by the .30 Carbine. My dad was exempt because he worked for Underwood, who produced some of the .30 Carbines and because he maintained billing machines. He was given a souvenir dummy .30 cartridge which was lost along the way. The Carbine gets mixed results as to effectiveness but I don't care. I have one. If I need effectiveness, I have other things.
My old man bought a surplus .30 cal out of a magazine back in the 60's for about $30. It's a 1930-40 production Standard Products model. I have it now, it's a great little piece & fun to shoot. It was interesting to see all the different companies that produced them when I was researching it.
It would be easy with a little photo-shop to replace those shadowy GIs with Antifa, BLM and the "undocumented" wreaking havoc lately. What a great ad that would be.
just so happens! Follows is today's "My Daily Kona" almost soup-nuts posting on the M-1 Carbine. On a frequent basis, Kona posts info on one weapon or the other.
Your funeral detail most likely was issued an M1 Garand, not the M1 Carbine. Heavy handgun cartridge vs a full battle rifle 30-06 cartridge. Big difference!
I was issued one in ‘76 as a MI state trooper. Mine was made by Saginaw Steering Gear, and I was at Bridgeport post (a Saginaw suburb). Ours were getting finicky and were replaced by HK m53s before I retired.
The mixed results on the battlefield reputation came from Korea. Post conflict tests showed the cartridge powder wasn’t working in the extreme cold, rounds coming out of the barrel at less than 1000 FPS. Inside 100 yards, doing what it was designed to do, it’s pretty effective. As far as transferring energy to the target at 100 yards it’s equivalent to a point blank .357 Mag. Great ‘truck gun’.
It's instructive to remember that Audie Murphy, who presumably had some expertise on the subject of military weapons and their utility in combat, rattled off the serial number of his Winchester carbine during an interview long after the war, and not the serial number of the M1 Garand he had been issued before drawing the carbine, and could have replaced the carbine with another Garand anytime he wanted to, but didn't.
It features prominently in the recent series "Mob City" where our hero keeps one rolled up in a blanket in the trunk of his car and uses it to great effect to administer justice toward the end.
As a child of WWII, I was fascinated by the .30 Carbine. My dad was exempt because he worked for Underwood, who produced some of the .30 Carbines and because he maintained billing machines. He was given a souvenir dummy .30 cartridge which was lost along the way. The Carbine gets mixed results as to effectiveness but I don't care. I have one. If I need effectiveness, I have other things.
ReplyDeleteMy old man bought a surplus .30 cal out of a magazine back in the 60's for about $30. It's a 1930-40 production Standard Products model. I have it now, it's a great little piece & fun to shoot. It was interesting to see all the different companies that produced them when I was researching it.
DeleteIt would be easy with a little photo-shop to replace those shadowy GIs with Antifa, BLM and the "undocumented" wreaking havoc lately. What a great ad that would be.
ReplyDeletejust so happens!
ReplyDeleteFollows is today's "My Daily Kona" almost soup-nuts posting on the M-1 Carbine. On a frequent basis, Kona posts info on one weapon or the other.
https://mydailykona.blogspot.com/2024/03/the-m-1-carbine-most-prolific-american.html
I had to shoot an M1 (blanks) at funeral detail, damn thing weighed a ton.
DeleteYour funeral detail most likely was issued an M1 Garand, not the M1 Carbine. Heavy handgun cartridge vs a full battle rifle 30-06 cartridge. Big difference!
DeleteI was issued one in ‘76 as a MI state trooper. Mine was made by Saginaw Steering Gear, and I was at Bridgeport post (a Saginaw suburb). Ours were getting finicky and were replaced by HK m53s before I retired.
ReplyDeleteThe mixed results on the battlefield reputation came from Korea. Post conflict tests showed the cartridge powder wasn’t working in the extreme cold, rounds coming out of the barrel at less than 1000 FPS.
ReplyDeleteInside 100 yards, doing what it was designed to do, it’s pretty effective. As far as transferring energy to the target at 100 yards it’s equivalent to a point blank .357 Mag.
Great ‘truck gun’.
It's instructive to remember that Audie Murphy, who presumably had some expertise on the subject of military weapons and their utility in combat, rattled off the serial number of his Winchester carbine during an interview long after the war, and not the serial number of the M1 Garand he had been issued before drawing the carbine, and could have replaced the carbine with another Garand anytime he wanted to, but didn't.
ReplyDeleteIt features prominently in the recent series "Mob City" where our hero keeps one rolled up in a blanket in the trunk of his car and uses it to great effect to administer justice toward the end.
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