Would you shoot Wolf 30 Caliber ammo out of your M1 Carbine?

[DougW]

I will be putting 75 rounds of Wolf down range tomorrow in my new AO M1 Carbine. I'll let you all know the results.

 

[Smokey Joe]

Considerations...

I'll take what I can get, but I don't want to shoot anything corrosive

Back in WWII, there was never any .30Carbine loaded that was corrosive. That's why a surplus carbine will almost always have its original bbl, wheras one of the .30-'06 rearseneled weapons will likely have a replacement.

Ammo loaded nowadays, and not surplus, from overseas, will not be corrosive--AFAIK, nobody loads corrosive primers any more.

Now, all of that said, my source of cheap, xlnt quality ammo for .30Carbine or any other cartridge I might fire, comes from Smokey Joe's Reload Shop. To paraphrase a T-shirt I saw at a beer festival, "Life's too short to shoot cheap quality ammo."

And I might get flamed for saying this, but IMHO, if your budget limits you to a $90 Mosin, that's one thing, but if you can afford a $500 M1Carbine, you can afford to buy, or make, good ammo for it.

 

[DMK]

And I might get flamed for saying this, but IMHO, if your budget limits you to a $90 Mosin, that's one thing, but if you can afford a $500 M1Carbine, you can afford to buy, or make, good ammo for it.

On the other hand, a $90 rifle might leave you plenty in your budget for ammo. If you've been saving since December for a Carbine, you may not have much money left over to buy anything but a few boxes of Wolf. For some folks that might be pretty much their whole gun budget for the year.

 

[Nil]

If it runs fine, I would have no qualms about using it in any sort of firearm. It might not be the most accurate or the cleanest, but it's cheap and goes bang every time.

 

[G95]

depends on the value of the rifle if its a beater you use only at the range for plinking go for it, if its more than that i would rather have brass interacting with my chamber, extractor, ejector, feed lips, followers, than steel on steel