Some would say the 30-30 Winchester is not very accurate, I would disagree.
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Like I said, I'm a big 30-30 believer! But a 35 Rem and especially a Mod 71 in 348, I do wish I had!
Well shed that 41 marlin my general direction if you start shedingif I had to shed my levers except for one, I’d still have my Browning 71 carbine, even over my .41 1894 Marlin.
OK devil's advocate here.
The .30-30 is a lot like the .30-40 Krag. It falls between a future intermediate cartridge and a fully modern rifle caliber. The major difference between the .30-30 and the Krag, and well the 7.62x39 or anything relatively close to it, is the fact Western lever guns are just so darn sexy. Honestly, it's just that. If it weren't for the appeal of the actual guns that shoot that cartridge, it would have become obsolete. I mean, c'mon, in no other rifle would we put up with a non-spitzer bullet.
I had a Marlin 336 years ago but sold it.
I had always wanted a old Winchester 3030 to hunt and bust around the woods with, but could never find one I could afford, didn't want a newer one. Then I found it, LGS had it on the wall and couldn't sell it it was so rough on thr outside, it was a rust bucket, even the crown was pitted....150 out the door.
Long story short, cleaned it up inside and out, bore was good till the last 1/2 inch and crown, wood was real good, guts cleaned up good and are smooth for a 1937 transitional, shoots straight as I can shoot it out to 100 yards, I call it my RatRod Gun and its a keeper...
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Then the 300 whisper and later the 300 blk came on the market and folks looked at the ballistics and i think they realized that grandpas 30-30 or the $200 pawn shop special wasn’t much different than the new kid on the block.
I’d buy that lolThat can also be said about the 6.5CM... nothing new under the sun, except for that tricksy name. Much of it, however, has to do with the platform they can be fired in; I don't recall ever seeing a .30-30 AR-10.
I’d buy that lol
Oh no chance, my fictional 30-30 ar-10 runs smooth and can be. You might wanna have yours looked atBrass life would probably be terrible... A stuck case remover would have to be standard equipment.
There is no doubt the .30-30 is an excellent deer round. What many shooter's complain about is the "pie-plate" accuracy of the old lever guns. The upper ejection that prevents a standard scope mounting is another turn-off. As mentioned, the flat-nose bullet requirement doesn't generate any love. Even though Marlin/Hornady has solved some of these problems the stigma remains. Many don't know that a lot of early benchrest matches were won with the .30-30 cartridge. Yet that pesky rim made feeding in bolt guns a challenge (except for single-shots). The .30 Rem solution sort of eventually faded to the obsolete as the rimless .30-30. But as a short range, handy rifle to grab, with multiple rounds, that you can quickly shoulder up & shoot, the .30-30 is king.
Long live the .30-30!
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Putting a scope on a lever gun is a crime against humanity.
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OK devil's advocate here.
The .30-30 is a lot like the .30-40 Krag. It falls between a future intermediate cartridge and a fully modern rifle caliber. The major difference between the .30-30 and the Krag, and well the 7.62x39 or anything relatively close to it, is the fact Western lever guns are just so darn sexy. Honestly, it's just that. If it weren't for the appeal of the actual guns that shoot that cartridge, it would have become obsolete. I mean, c'mon, in no other rifle would we put up with a non-spitzer bullet.
I had a Marlin 336 years ago but sold it.
In this part of the country, and for the hunting I've been doing for about 65 of my 74 years here, I can't imagine why I'd "need" a 30-30 if I already had a 30-06. Nevertheless, I've had both a 30-06 and a 30-30 (as well as a bunch of other rifles) for many years - "need" has very little, if anything, to do with most of the guns I have.My uncle told me you only need four guns; a .22lr, 30-30, 30-06 and a 12 gauge shotgun.