.30 carbine

picked up a Iver Johnson .30 carbine the other day with a walnut stock/bayonet lug and shoots like butter. I'm just wondering if any of you guys have any idea what the value of these guns are?

thanks,

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About $500

thanks! has anyone here ever used one for hunting hogs? the round is very short even though it is a 30cal round. does it have any knockdown or penetration problems?

It'll work on hogs... if not one shot, then multiple... but it will get the job done. One of the reasons it didn't last in the army was because too many soldiers had issues with its knock down power, at least as I understand it. I know it worked just fine for my grandpa a few times.

I used to own one but never hog hunted with it.

Pretty neat little guns.

Got a buddy that used to kill hogs for the state along the Trinity River bottom; he carried a 30 Carbine on a regular basis for that task.

Killed my first buck with one at age 10, last day of deer season, first time I got to hunt alone

thanks again guys! I think Im going to give this gun a whirl as accurate as it is I should be able to brain them.

They are pretty fun to shoot. I owned one for a while and wish I still had it.

Close range you should be fine... Not a real "long range" gun anyway. As others have said... Fun to shoot!

It lasted thru three wars. WII, Korea, and Vietnam. It was replaced M16. It was the favorite partisan weapon. Millions were given to our allies in Asia and South America.

Military-era M1 Carbines (in .30 carbine) have gotten to be very collectible in recent years, so prices on the old military ones have really gone up (over $600). However, there were several companies making them for civilian sales. Those don't carry anywhere near the value that the military ones did.

I would be comfortable using it on hogs under 75 yards, but don't expect pinpoint accuracy beyond that.

An M2 carbine served my Father well in Korea, in Mexico city when there in 2000, saw lots of police carrying them.

The Rockola in the safe has worked well on all deer it has been used on. My favorite deer ammo for it is he Winchester hollow points. Keep it inside 100 yards and it works very well on deer sized game.

Try a Ruger Blackhawk in .30C.

I've got 2 of them and their my favorites, some of the 85 grain loads come out smoking. Just make sure to wear ear protection.

Killed my first deer with one in '55. don't use military hardball ammo for hunting. (Don't ask how I know).

Ammo for them is EXPENSIVE.......!!!

Any ammo is expensive.

I want one.

Just like I want a 1903, a Garand, and an M-1A.

All it'll take is a pile of money.

I will keep my eye out for the hollow points. Thanks,

I have a usgi quality hardware and I use 110 grain soft point rounds in mine. Hard to beat fifteen rounds of 30 cal. under a 100 yards. Sometimes you get into a lot of hogs. Put a ammo pouch on the stock and you have quick access to thirty more rounds. It has a little more energy than .357 magnum and you never hear people say that round is under powered. Have fun, it's a great truck gun.

I like the round but I have to say I hear lots of people say it's underpowered. More energy than a .357? Guess that depends on the load and the loader.

Underpowered as a rifle, but it is not a rifle. Its a carbine from when a .30-06 was the std rifle cartridge.

Cheap if you reload with RMR 110 grn plated rounds. Look at the ballistics of a 110 grain .357 mag and the carbine. Carbine is moving about 500fps faster with same weight. Mine is an early Universal that my grandfather bought years ago new. I really like it, fun gun.

Learn something new every day. I wasn't aware the .30C standard bullet was 158 grains. I would have ASSumed it was about 110-125.

WAIT. I read that again. So 110 gr in .357 is common? Wow...OK. That's the beauty of rolling your own.

110 grains in a .357? Really? OK

Lets not go there. Read the 2010 version of the Hornady reloading manual and you will see exactly what I said. Yes, there are 110 grain bullets made for 38/357. Are they everyday common in 357, no. Are they available, yes. All my .357 reloads are 125 grain and not 158.

Mike

Sierra and Speer also offer 110gr 357 bullets.

Yes, but there is no point shooting such tiny bullets in .357 then comparing them to a rifle cartridge. I don't look for store made bullets for a single action revolver nor would I load the smallest or near smallest bullets for said SA wheel gun. Everyone is allowed to make odd choices, the beauty of the world we live in. I will politely go away now.

110 gr in 357 is available, and out of a carbine barrel, they will scream at well over 2000 fps. If memory serves me correctly, closer to 2400 fps. A 158 gr .357 mag out of a carbine will be pushing 1800 fps, and if you load your own, you can get them up to or slightly over 2000 fps. So I would say that a 30 carbine would be well below a 357.

For clarity I was talking about 110 in an M1 and 357 in a revolver. no biggie......