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Post by jwp475 on Dec 26, 2020 9:43:11 GMT -5
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Post by bamagreg on Dec 26, 2020 10:01:07 GMT -5
I always thought it was funny how some gun writers would berate the 30-30 lever actions as under powered and borderline for deer but then the same guys would claim the T/C Contender in 30-30 had magical powers.
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Post by bigbrowndog on Dec 26, 2020 11:07:54 GMT -5
I think it was Sam Fadala’s articles and his Dale Storey gunsmithing lever guns that made me readjust my thinking on the 30-30/lever action combo. I started with a Marlin 336 as a young teenager and then by high school had a Savage 99 in 300sav. with optic. My 30-30’s lived in the closet during my 20’s, for the most part, I liked them but didn’t use them. Except for a trapper version I got as a high school graduation present that pulled tracking duties when I helped guide bowhunters.
Now other than handguns, my leverguns are my most used guns.
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Post by jeffh on Dec 26, 2020 12:40:49 GMT -5
I think it was Sam Fadala’s articles and his Dale Storey gunsmithing lever guns that made me readjust my thinking on the 30-30/lever action combo........... Trapr I thoroughly enjoyed his writing as well and especially appreciated his objective view on the 30-30. I wonder how he became such an obscure figure in the gun world" sometimes. I recently looked up some of his books and found that they are not going for $2 to $3 a pieces, so there is still a following of some sort.
I'm a 30-30 fan and I don't have my head in the sand. I realize its limitations and respect its abilities. Most often these days it's as much as I feel like messing with. Aside from real physical restrictions, as pertains to managing recoil, I just don't enjoy the abuse or the noise of other cartridges and it's gotten to be more that way as years go on.
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Post by aciera on Dec 26, 2020 23:56:40 GMT -5
A friend of mine was Bob Bell. Scope guy from Gun Digest for years. We were talking one time and I said I saw where a guy put a pricey Zeiss on his 30-30.
Bob said he knew the guy and thought it was a great idea. “A gun you know with good glass is never a bad idea” I believe is what he said.
Another Benchrest guy shot a 30-30.......said he loved the look on folks faces when they found out they had been beat with a 30-30.
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Post by x101airborne on Dec 27, 2020 9:39:58 GMT -5
I probably shoot 5 times more 30-30 ammo every year than any other cartridge except 300 Blackout. As the above comments outline already, it doesn't kick too bad for my kids to use it, it doesn't blow out our eardrums in the woods, ammo can be bought at the local 7/11, the bullets wont go through a hog and make it another mile into the neighbors registered bull, I have yet to find a hog that will run more than 50 yards with a solid hit, etc.. Oh, and if we get in a "run and gun" with a sounder of hogs, Im not re-tracing my steps looking for brass. It is the perfect cartridge that does pretty much everything well in South Texas. And in the case of my Remlin, I dont care if it gets knocked around, scratched, rained on... just pick it up and wipe it with an oily rag and good to go. Do that to my Claro Walnut custom 280 Ackley and there is probably going to be a gunfight. I am a HUGE 30-30 fan!
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Post by ldmay375 on Dec 27, 2020 20:26:06 GMT -5
I find it hard not to like a Winchester or Marlin lever rifle in a 30-30.
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Post by flyingzebra on Dec 28, 2020 15:07:12 GMT -5
I've gone modern, and have been shooting the 30-40
:-)
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Post by bigbore5 on Jan 19, 2021 21:53:46 GMT -5
Never had anything but a bang-flop on deer with one. Most hogs do the same.
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Post by magnumwheelman on Jan 19, 2021 22:43:23 GMT -5
I had a 30-30 I loved in high school... I’m going to mention this here, because I feel most are friends... I’m... embarrassed to say I traded it for a CB in the late 70’s at the height of the craze... I hadn’t grown tired of it, but had a buddy that had a Marlin 444 lever action, and in my youth, I reckoned that I needed a bigger gun... I mean that 444 would knock down small trees, and blow a wood fence post out of the ground... years later I often wished I had it back... I will say I lost a deer with a 10” Contender and factory 150 grain ammo, a couple years ago... it could have been a bad shot, but that proved the 30-30 cartridge was not infallible... I sold an old Winchester during my sell off... but kept a nice custom martini carbine in 30-30... will likely always have at least 1... Ok... now be nice, after I admitted I actually traded a real gun for a CB
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Post by pacecars on Jan 20, 2021 9:18:38 GMT -5
The last .30-30 I killed a deer with was a Savage 170 pump with a Bausch & Lomb scope in their adjustable mounts. It rattle like a bag of bolts but was accurate as hell
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Post by taffin on Jan 20, 2021 11:00:43 GMT -5
I always thought it was funny how some gun writers would berate the 30-30 lever actions as under powered and borderline for deer but then the same guys would claim the T/C Contender in 30-30 had magical powers. In the past I have written of those who felt the .30-30 levergun was minimal for deer but when they cut off the butt, shortened the barrel to half its length, and went from a repeating action to a single shot, suddenly they had an elk rifle. However I have never seen a legitimate writer do this. Please recite chapter and verse where this has occurred. The Contender .30-30 does have one "magical" power in the Super 14 as it is so extremely accurate. The first time I ever fired mine with iron sights at 200 yards from Creedmore position I could cover five shots with my fist with plenty of space left over.
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Post by mike454 on Jan 20, 2021 11:31:28 GMT -5
I've heard the charge leveled against Bob Milek, regarding the 30 herrett, which is slightly inferior to the 30-30 ballistically.
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Post by rangersedge on Jan 23, 2021 20:07:25 GMT -5
Been to the Winchester house. Interesting place. Sad story.
Brother nailed a running coyote at extended range (i don't remember exact yardage) with his iron sighted, lever action 30-30 long ago.
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