same caliber for handgun and rifle

I bought a Hi-Point 9mm carbine last year, specifically so I could use commonly available ammo in both my EDC and in a long gun I might use for home defense ... I don't hunt, but certainly a 9mm round would be useful if I was ever forced to forage for food locally ... It's great, inexpensive gun, BTW; accurate and has suffered only a handful of failures and all of those were in the first hundred rounds or so ...
 
If I'm going to carry a rifle, I want one with more power. I just don't see the advantage to having rifle and pistol in same caliber other than for the novelty of it. In the old west it was logical to me. Not today. But whatever floats your boat. ;)
 
:DMy current **** weapon's, that I can carry concealed discreetly, in my large daypack: is my 9 mm 1911, or my 9mm Browning Hi-Power, with a 30 round magazine. My rifle: is a 16 inch barrel, with a ventilated barrel shroud --- British Stirling L2A3 --- semi auto --- Type 2 Carbine, folding stock --- along with a slew of 9mm 32 round Stirling magazines.

The folding stock...is a bit on the short side. But it is one of the most dependable and most expensively made, full auto machine guns ever produced. J&G Sales...sells the Stirling semi auto pistol and carbine line of weapons; for around $400.

You might want to check out KelTech's, 9mm carbine; but I still stand-by the Stirling as the best; cuz you can fire the Stirling with the stock folded --- but with the KelTech --- you cannot.

You can still buy a full auto 9mm Stirling for around $10,000 --- $15,000.
 
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Though the pistol caliber carbines are cool, in my opinion, the little practical advantage of common ammo in both guns is offset by the very real practical advantage of the increased power and utility of a(ny) rifle round. Carrying two types of ammo is not a significant problem, if at all. If I hadda get a pistol caliber carbine, make mine a 44 Mag which would be the most versatile of all of the pistol caliber carbines.

Unless they came out with a 50 AE carbine, then I might have to go hmmm.
 
Here's my choice, the Ruger Vaquero and Henry Big Boy, both in 38/357.

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AR 15 pistol and rifle in 223. :D


On a more serious note, the KelTek Sub2000 in 9mm comes fitted for Beretta or Glock mags and one or two other brands, so you could have not only common ammo but common magazines as well. And there is a 33 round Glock mag that fits in most (all?) of their pistols.
 
it is a mountain calibre

I'd go with the 44 too. You should have no issues shooting 44s out of your rifle; I wanted to do the same thing as you and I love 357s...long story short, I wanted the 44 rifle so my plan never went into fruition
 
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