[Tom2]

Well it is firing a carbine cartridge, full of slow burning powder and producing alot of pressure. But, if you had loading dies for that cartridge, I would assume you could load it down alot to be more like a handgun cartridge, even use lead bullets instead of jacketed, and make it sort of a .32 magnum equivalent, or even down to 32 Smith and Wesson performance, even though it is a 30 instead of a 32, not a great difference there. So you are stuck with 308 sized bullets but unless the rifling pitch is too slow to stabilise slower loads, that might be a way to make a fun plinker out of a fireball blasting ear buster. I wonder how the Russian steel cased carbine ammo would behave in that thing. Maybe the cases would not expand as much and not stick in the chambers? Or would steel be a bad idea. Need input on that one.