Originally Posted by ColdCase1984
Feeling pretty bad about letting the little Trapper Carbine seen in the thread below lay fallow this season. Moved the Aimpoint to my issued SBS...

Need to pic up an elevator for the rear sight and may put an XS front sight on it, and hope it works with these 50-year-old eyeballs.

Seafire or anyone, do you think going to a 125 or 110 bullet would get the velocity and tissue damage up to a useable level?

The several stories about standard loads just poking through are unsettling and I suspect the problem would be exacerbated by lower velocities from a 16-in. bbl.

Snubnosed Thutty Thutty


I kill Florida and Georgia Whitetails dead as you would want, with a Marlin 336Y Spikehorn. That is a 16 inch barrel, and I use 170 grain handloads. Never had a deer walk away from a solid hit.
If the .30-30 were a poor deer cartridge, it would have died out years ago. Just saying..........

Sam......