30 Carbine Ammo


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Ghostrider_23
July 29, 2007, 12:22 PM
For those of you out there that have a 30 Carbine, what type of ammo do you practice with?????

Is it safe and have you used Wolf ammo before in your 30 Carbine????

Have any of you experinced any problems using the Wolf ammo????

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TIMC
July 29, 2007, 12:33 PM
I bought 1K of Federal 30 cal ammo a while back and dies to reload the brass. Both the reloads and the factory Federal ammo shoot great. No experience with Wolf ammo in my carbine. I have had problems with A-merc ammo having inconsistant loads. I bought it because it was cheap and now I know why. I still have a couple hundred rounds of it that I will not shoot.

gaudio5
July 29, 2007, 12:35 PM
besides a sticky case once in a while from rapid fire it shoots OK nothing to call home about, i noticed it gummed up the barrell preety bad about 30 rounds in its dirty stuff and for some reason it smells like rotten eggs. BUT for the price i wont complain

Dave Markowitz
July 29, 2007, 12:59 PM
I've been working on a can of RA 52 GI surplus Ball. When that's gone I will start on my supply Remington-UMC Ball. I also have about 200 rounds of Remington 110 grain JSP, but that's not for play.

I have put 100 rounds of the Wolf FMJ through my Underwood. It ran fine but left the chamber dirtier than brass cased ammo. If you shoot the steel cased Wolf then brass cased, you may get FTE, if you don't clean the chamber first.

Firehand
July 29, 2007, 04:14 PM
Do not like Amerc: cheap brass, lousy accuracy beyond 50 yards and about 5-10 cases per box split. Not reloads, the original factory ammo.

I got a can of 1500 rounds from Bartlett Reloadershttp://gibrass.com/misc.html after I first got a Carbine, GI-spec ammo from GI components. They're out right now, but if they get more in it's good stuff.

I've fired a bunch of Wolf, a little over a thousand rounds I think, with no misfires or other problems. It does tend to be dirtier than other brands, but nothing a couple of more minutes of cleaning didn't take care of. And it's been as accurate as anything else I've tried in mine. I tend to use it for practice at outdoor ranges where I lose cases.

DougW
July 29, 2007, 04:19 PM
Wolf works fine in my AO carbine. The Box-O-Truth did a nice comparison with Wolf, and they forund it to be a bit under powered from mil-spec, and it carboned the chamber a bit more. They speculated the the lower pressure loading and the steel case doesn't allow the casr to "swell" to the chamber wall and seal off the chamber from the gases. It functions fine for me, and is fairly accurate. Beats not having any ammo at all.

Eightball
July 29, 2007, 04:37 PM
I use Seller and Belliot ammunition; good stuff, good brass.....now, just to snag the carbide dies, but at $60 a pop, geez....

No wolf will run through this thing--I love it too much.

Spiggy
July 29, 2007, 05:02 PM
I was using federal when my carbine exploded :(
-but right now we're thinking it's the bubba's fault, not the carbine or ammo

Peter M. Eick
July 29, 2007, 06:20 PM
I bought 500 rnds of CBC and 100 rnds of Winchester. I have now reloaded the cbc twice and the winchester 3 times. Winchester stuff seems to be holding up better. I bought another 500 rnds of starline brass for when I get this stuff too torn up to reload.

M2 Carbine
July 29, 2007, 06:35 PM
I shoot 99.9% reloads. Mostly 110gr FMJ or JSP. The most accurate bullet I use is a Lyman 115gr lead gas check bullet that haven't shot in a while, even though I have 2-3 thousand cast.

If there was no other ammo available I'd shoot steel case ammo in the Carbine but only as a last resort.

M2Pilot
July 29, 2007, 08:51 PM
My experiences with Amerc have been bad too. I have a few hundred rounds of 45 & 30 carbine I'd sell cheap if anyone would be interested in local pickup or not too far away delivery.

Langenator
July 29, 2007, 11:43 PM
Anyone tried Georgia Arms?

I'm moving back east to the sub-Mason-Dixon outdoor sauna next month, which brings the definite good thing of having Georgia Arms at the gun shows.

SoCalShooter
July 29, 2007, 11:45 PM
You can get a large can of surplus Lake City 30carbine from the CMP.

DWH
July 30, 2007, 12:47 AM
The only CMP .30 carbine ammo I see is Aguila, and Wolf.

Eightball
July 30, 2007, 01:11 AM
You can get a large can of surplus Lake City 30carbine from the CMP.Since when? I got no notice of this...

MechAg94
July 30, 2007, 02:15 PM
I just bought a few boxes of Wolf to try out. I went to a gun show last weekend. The prices are pretty high these days for everything.

Mark_from_Iowa
July 30, 2007, 02:21 PM
Try here:

http://www.theboxotruth.com/docs/edu19.htm

andyjason
July 30, 2007, 04:33 PM
i bought 100 rounds of 90gr hornady xtp from reed's. i love it. the only problem was they needed to be seated a little deeper to chamber.

greg531mi
July 30, 2007, 05:10 PM
I use Seller and Belliot ammunition; good stuff, good brass.....now, just to snag the carbide dies, but at $60 a pop, geez....

Try Lee dies, good dies, a lot less than that.....

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