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I live in suburbia.
My "Truck gun" is a loaded semi auto pistol in my glove box.

For a month during hunting season I stay in a small town population 250. For that month I keep my main hunting rifle on the passenger seat. I do not drive around loaded, but I keep the ammo in the butt stock pouch.

I'm with maddog on this one. H&R with a .357 barrel is mine.

Ella

Me THREE. I too recommend the Handi-Rifle!

In .30-30 rechambered to .30-40!!

Or just stay with the .30-30.

In .308 Winchester it also wouldn't be too bad;
or .30/06
or .357 or .44 Mag ..... , etc!

I'm building a 19" 12ga 'SURVIVOR' gun in the Handi,
that'll have plenty of storage in the stock and forend.

Here is the CVA Scout. It's really compact and is available in multiple calibers.

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One of the best setups I ever had was a TC Contender carbine with a custom shop 20 inch .357 Maxi barrel. I don't remember why I got rid of it. Another good one is a Winchester 94 trapper, .30-30 or .44 magnum.

With "book" loads, the .30-40 doesn't offer much over a .30-30. Most .30 cal bullets meant for .308, '06, and the magnums won't open up at .30-40 speeds even from a long barrel. My father is a big .30-40 fan. I've seen it in action A LOT and with pointed 180s, expansion is the exception, not the rule. Probably the best .30-40 bullet out there, especially for the shorter barrels, is the Nosler 170 grain round nose partition. Speer 170 grain flat points would be my 2nd choice.

Tom

What TOM sez is probably true... as far as he went.

However, Nosler makes a quick opening bullet (Nosler's Ballistic Tip/boat-tailed bullets) in several different .30 caliber weights including 125 grain, 150 grain and 165 grain weights which would be excellent for deer and Nosler's excellent Partition bullet is available in several different .30 caliber weights if you need deeper penetration for bear, elk or moose with the Krag cartridge.

As you probably know, the front half of the Nosler Partition Bullet opens up rather fast, but the rear half remains in tact and drives through bone and muscle without breaking down, so the Nosler Partition Bullet is useful for your purposes as well... and no one can "knock" the Partition Bullet... it's "THE" big game bullet to which all others are compared.

I've used the Nosler Partition on large moose and it's retained over 71% of it's original bullet weight and the front half of the bullet has "opened up" perfectly while the rear half remained totally together and drove through heavy bone and muscle to bring down the moose with a single shot to a vital area.

I wouldn't be so fast to discount the old Krag cartridge... and at the muzzle velocities my reloading manual indicates, the Krag is almost as fast (muzzle velocity wise) as the once very popular .300 Savage. I.E., the deer would never be able to notice any difference.

Of course, you'd need to reload these bullets yourself or find a reliable person to reload them for you, but with the 150 grain Ballistic Tip which could easily be loaded to have muzzle velocities in the 2560-2595 fps range , the 150 grain Nosler Ballistic Tip bullet would make an excellent deer round in a .30/40 Krag cartridge.

Of course, you won't get that much muzzle velocity outta a shorter barrel than the 22" barrel used in the tests in my reloading manual, but you'll be close enough for government work.

Enjoy life 'cause you only "go around" once.

Jus' my 2�...


Strength & Honor...

Ron T.

Hmmmm ... yer right, I forgot about the 125 grain ballistic tip.

Remember the context of the OP's question, though: he's asking about the late-build High Wall trapper carbines which have a 16-1/4" barrel, not a 26 or 28 inch like we're more generally used to in the single shots. 10-12" of barrel is a lot of loss.

Man that's be a handy little bugger in a backpack though. Wow.

I have a Marlin 1984 45 Colt with a 16.5" barrel which makes for an outstanding truck gun, albeit somewhat short range.

You guys are too good at providing options.

I thought that I'd stumbled on a useful truck gun concept of using a single's ease of loading that one round to keep it quick and simple for a truck gun, and had a likely candidate.

Now I've several rifles and action types listed at which to look and handle.

;)You have made such hard and unpleasant work for me, to have to go to a couple of gun shops and checkout some rifles.

This gives you the reason to buy one of each action type represented to determine the one best suited for your needs.

We're just looking out for you.

This is what I call a Truck Gun GA 937638874
http://www.gunsamerica.com/classifieds/view/_937638874.aspx

BTT

Encore #1; Contender #2; any caliber.

Those 1885s are gorgeous. But you could buy 3 H&Rs for the same price and not have a coronary if they were stolen.

This works.

Courtesy demands, that I thank all of you for all of the good information and options.

Honesty demands that I say, that you've given me so many good options that my essentially made choice is now back to comparing several rifles.

A Range Rover? In that case, yes that purdy looking rifle would be the perfect match for your "truck"� just make sure it rides in a silk soft case in the back seat on that English saddle leather�

Where can you buy an 1885 that cheap? I will take two or three.