Depends on the bullets that you use...
Keeping the 'Holy Trio' around the house is never a bad idea. :thumbsup:Shotgun, rifle and a pistol seems best
Sorry, your wrong. You said 110 M1carbine round moving around 2000 FPS is no different then a 55gn moving at 2900 FPS... the damage isn’t even close. At about 2200 FPS a bullets temp cavity becomes permanent. A 55gn blows away a 110gn bullet at these velocities. I am not putting you down. I am just trying to explain to you. Maybe you didn’t know that.Of course an M1 Carbine is an excellent home defense weapon! Why wouldn't it be? The Carbine was issued to millions of soldiers during WW2, Korea, Vietnam, and is still in service to this very moment somewhere in the world.
The Carbine is ideal for persons of small stature - women, kids, and older people who lack the strength to hold a heavier weapon. The smaller size troops of Southeast Asia preferred the M1 Carbine due to it's small size.
I know of no other CF weapon of matching dimensions, proportions, weight, and ballistic power.
In modern parlance, the world "carbine" has become synonymous for overprice, overweight, blow-back pistol caliber carbines - NOT what the original was!
Even compact AR-pattern rifles are larger, heavier by several pounds, and "clunkier" in terms of handling and use. Pistol grips and rails with all sorts of doo-dads and gadgets hanging off making a 7 pound rifle a 10 pound "Johnny Seven, One-Man Army" wannabe may be all the rage, but they are not "better" than the simple, slim, intuitive Carbine with small, light ammo, small, easily inserted mags, and far more ballistic performance than it appears is commonly known. Standard .30 Carbine ammo is just barely less than 1,000 fpe at just barely under 2,000 fps. Standard M193 5.56 is just barely 1,100 fpe at 2,900 fps from the now-common 16" barrel lengths. That is NOT a lot of difference and nothing a two-legged predator would notice nor care about if still up and running after a hit.
New M1 Carbines are expensive, just as are new every other type of WW2 repro or newly manufactured weapon. If you want to see what a modern, "cheap" M1 costs look no further than Chiappa's 9mm version which is decent enough if you don't mind the excessive weight due to be a blow-back mechanism - oh, and the LOWER ballistic performance. Or Ruger's line of "carbines" - all heavy blow-back systems that aren't exactly inexpensive considering they're lack of mechanical complexity.
While I wouldn't recommend anyone go out and buy a new M1 Carbine for home defense specifically, considering AR pattern rifles are all over the place, and dirt cheap, a new Inland isn't much pricier than a Ruger Mini-14 and Auto Ordance's version is probably running about the same price. Even though the Mini-14 is small, compact, and chambered in a powerful, cartridge, it's still heavier, and "thicker" than many smaller people care to deal with.
The person interested in an M1 or similar size weapon isn't likely interested in being told they should go get a 12 gauge.
People who think a sharp stick is comparable to an M1 Carbine should consider rounding off the tip of their stick. That way, when it's being shoved up their "baffle end" it will have a higher probability of straightening out the internal plumbing rather than punching a new hole!
I'll bet I can dial 911 as fast or faster with a rotary phone as most can with a modern cell phone.There are both better, and lesser choices. This is like asking if your rotary dial princess phone can be used to dial the fire department...sure it can, but we are in 2020, there are other options too.
have one of the early Universals, and it runs great.I have heard this about the early ones but have never seen one. Eveybody knows I like surplus stuff and I've been shown a few Universals. Even shot one at the gunclub. Never got through a full magazine without problems. And it had a cast receiver. Must have been a later one. The out of battery issues are well known to carbine guys. I have shot an Iver Johnson and a Plainfield too, both of which fed and cycled fine.