GI ammo unsafe in Ruger .30 Carbine pistol?
A co-worker claims that Ruger has specific instructions against the use of G.I. ball .30 Carbine ammo in its .30 Carbine revolver.
The bugaboo is pressure, the co-worker claims.
I fired a Ruger .30 Carbine years ago and aside from it being a real ear-splitter (forgot my muffs one shot, but for only once) I don't recall any stickiness in extraction.
I'm just curious.
Anyone have a Ruger .30 Carbine and know whether G.I. ball ammo is verboten in this revolver?
"A hit with a .22 is better than a miss with a .44!"
The bugaboo is pressure, the co-worker claims.
I fired a Ruger .30 Carbine years ago and aside from it being a real ear-splitter (forgot my muffs one shot, but for only once) I don't recall any stickiness in extraction.
I'm just curious.
Anyone have a Ruger .30 Carbine and know whether G.I. ball ammo is verboten in this revolver?
"A hit with a .22 is better than a miss with a .44!"
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almost all .30 carbine ammo has the same 110 gr bullet wieght, with almost identical powder loads and case pressures. most owners would shoot mil. surplus ammo because its cheap and available. saxon nails it, ruger would never produce a gun that could not fire mil. spec ammo. i know a hunter who uses a 130 gr lead bullet backed by 11 grains of H110 powder in his ruger. i think he is nuts, but the gun handles the load.
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That's what I figured.
I told the co-worker I found that hard to believe since it was a given that people would use G.I. ball ammo in it. Thus, I doubted very much Ruger would make such a revolver that couldn't G.I. ball ammo.
But he was adamant and I had no ready source to prove otherwise.
Thanks for the information. You confirmed my suspicions.
"A hit with a .22 is better than a miss with a .44!"0 -
All mainstream comercial cartridges are regulated by specs published by SAAMI, and all comercial guns are designed and chambered to shoot cartridges according to SAAMI specs.
In otherwords the Ruger .30carbine pistol was designed to handle the military ball ammo. And the reason its so loud really has nothing to do with over pressure or anything like that, its because off all the still burning and unburnt powder that comes out the end of the barrel.
I don't know where your friend heard that, but it sounds like a really bad myth, maybe you should inform him to contact Ruger and ask them.
Saxon had it nailed.
If I'm wrong please correct me, I won't be offended.
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I have a Ruger Blackhawk in .30 Carbine. I have fired lots of ammo through it, both commercial and military. The gun has handled both types just fine.
Both rounds use a 110gr bullet going about 1900 fps. The military load uses 13 grains of WC 820 powder. I have loaded a couple thousand rnds of this caliber using the military load data, and that stuff shot just fine as well.
I think your buddy got some bad info.0 -
military OK, BUT BE CAREFULL THERE IS A LOT OF CORROSIVE 30 CARBINE, OUT THERE, ONE ROUND OF THIS & NOT CLEAN RIGHT AWAY!! YOU WILL HAVE A MESS!!!! 0 -
**US** .30 Carbine ammo was never loaded w/ corrosive primers. 0 -
Iconoclast is right.....all U.S. military .30 carbine ammo made during WWII and after, was non-corrosive.
http://www.jouster.com/Bulletin/primers.htm
However, there's a lot of foreign manufactured stuff out there.....and who knows about that.0
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