Pistol caliber carbines such as the Marlin Camp Carbine, Ruger PC series, Hi-Point 995, and Beretta CX4 are very popular with shooters. The capability to have a longarm chambered for the same rounds as your handgun and in some cases even use the same magazines is very handy. With a longer barrel and better sights coupled with a sturdier two-handed grip, these pistol caliber carbines are capable of making long range shots more accurately. It is even banded about that pistol caliber carbines provide an increase in round velocity. There is an argument in some gun circles that state this last factor to be a myth.
Others state that on average the carbine increase is only about 10% in velocity. Let’s take a look at the documentation.
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Let me introduce myself. I am a bit of a conflict junkie. I am fascinated by war and warfare, assassination, personal protection and weaponry ranging from spud guns and flame throwers to thermonuclear bombs and soviet-trained Ebola monkeys. In short, if it’s violent or a tool to create violence it is kind of my thing.
I have written a few hundred articles on the dry encyclopedia side for such websites as History Times, Firearms Talk.com, GUNS.com, Suite 101 (where I am the contracted Feature Writer for Military History) and Combat Forums; as well as for print publications like England Expects, and Strike First Strike Fast. Several magazines such as Sea Classics, Military Historian and Collector, Mississippi Sportsman and Warship International have carried my pieces. Additionally I am on staff as a naval consultant and writer for Eye Spy Intelligence Magazine.
Currently I am working on several book projects, including a section in the upcoming Mississippi Encyclopedia (to be published by Ole Miss this summer), an alternative history novel about the US-German War of 1916, and a biography of Bennett Doty. My first novel, about the coming zombie apocalypse was released this Spring by Necro Publications and can be found at Amazon.com.
In my day job I am a contractor for the US federal government in what could best be described as the ‘Force Protection’ field. In this I am a certified Firearms, and less-than-lethal combat instructor.
