Lyman 311359 in .30 carbine?

[Rally]

Gave the dogs a rest today and cast a few. Should last awhile.

 

[Bret4207]

The three things you can try are: find an M2 stock and glass bed the recoil plate, glass bed in front of the gas port and using a automotive gasket material shim up the stock under the barrel band to a just snug fit.

Thanks Ric! As I said, I may be asking too much and might have to settle for confining my shots to well under 75 yards, but I gotta shoot them to see, eh?! Just need a big basket of energy!

And boy, do I regret not buying some surplus Korean ammo back when it was cheap!!!

 

[Bret4207]

before i started bouncing an M-1 around on a tractor i'd give them a price check.

Huh, hadn't thought about that. Something to consider, although the Savage is too good a rifle for that duty. Thanks!

 

[Bret4207]

A link would be good.

www.castpics.net

 

[Bret4207]

View attachment 37312View attachment 37313Gave the dogs a rest today and cast a few. Should last awhile.

Nice looking bullets!

 

[MW65]

before i started bouncing an M-1 around on a tractor i'd give them a price check.
you might wanna go ahead and break out the Savage.

30 carbine made for a great ranch rifle way back when... lightweight, fun, and accounted for several coyotes, skunks, and ground squirrels over the years. Truth on the price check... an SKS was the other alternative... now also valued pretty high!

 

[Bret4207]

Have an SKS, a Yugo I think, the one you can switch to single shot. That's probably the one I should be making into a tractor gun. $89.00 out the door when my old work partner and I bought them!!! Shoulda bought 5!

 

[Ben]

I like the 311359 !
It is doubtful that Lyman ever envisioned the bullet being used in the 30-30 because of the spire pt.
However, I loaded 20 rounds with the Lyman 311359 in neck turned 30-30 brass with the 311359, sized to .310" with 7.0 grs. of B'Eye with a Wolf Large Pistol primer. & .014 " thickness Al g/cs that I make. Scope is a fixed power Burris Fullfield 6X.
20 rounds fired @ 50 yards.
This group was shot with my Handi Single shot 30-30 .
Obviously, I would not chamber these rounds in a mag. tube, lever action 30-30.

 

[Rally]

Nice shooting Ben.

 

[Ben]

Thank you !

Ben

 

[Bret4207]

Ben, the 311359 was designed as a 32-20 bullet. I'm not sure what the intended purpose was, (small game I imagine), but it's always had a following or it would have been dropped decades ago. Obviously your rifle loves it! Well done!

 

[RicinYakima]

Ideal #3118 was the 115 grain bullet for the 32 WCF, black powder loading. Next was the #311316 gas check bullet for smokeless powder. The last popular design was the #311359, about 1910, designed to flatten trajectory and increase penetration, as the 32/20 and 32 WCF were marginal for whitetail hunting.

 

[Bret4207]

I think I'd prefer the 311316 over the 359 if I was deer hunting. Different times!

 

[beagle]

Shot a bunch of 311008s when I was messing with the carbine. Found that the flat nose caused hang-ups sometimes feeding from magazine to chamber. Found that if I used a RN top punch during sizing, they bumped the meplat round and fed better. Had a chance to turn loose an M-2 once with a 30 rounder of cast loaded 311008HPs. That was a real hoot. Load for days and shoot it up in an hour. Dirt flew everywhere./beagle

 

[CZ93X62]

30 M1 Carbine is just a rimless/updated 32/20 HV. Nominally .308" bullets vs. the wider ranging 32/20's .310"-.314", but not much else is different.