357 magnum carbine VS 30 Carbine?

I love both Rifles, but I would have to say a 357 Magnum Rifle would be easy to find shells for, If I was this torn between the two however I would try to find a way to end up with both of them. Good luck
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Pretty much my feelings. 357s going to be more versatile and probably better suited to your purpose, but a 30 Carbine has the history and is dang handy too.
 
I'd go with the .357 for its advantage in brass availability, it better ability to handle 180 grain bullets and for the wide variety of bullets available.
 
It will be used mostly for plinking and as a first center fire rifle for the young ones.
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I went shooting with a friend of mine's 13 year old son about a month ago. He owns a 10/22 and that was all he had ever shot before.

I took a slicked-up Rossi 357 lever action and an M1 carbine. He shot the lever action a couple of times, but he loved the M1 and would have spent all day on it if we had let him.

Best thing to do is get both.
 
It's just a darn sobbing and nearly crying shame that the M1 Carbine wasn't designed from the git-go around a rimless .357 Magnum. They were sitting around a drawing board drinking coffee and probably flinging paperclips at each other anyway. A little more thought on the matter wouldn't have hurt anything.
 
Folks have experimented with altering the M1 Carbine to fire other rounds. I knew a guy who had done a fair bit of work making M1 Carbines fire the .45 Win Mag round. I don't know whatever happened to him or his project, but he got mentioned in a back page Jeff Cooper blurb for his efforts.
 
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