Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters 30/30 Overkill?????

I was roped in by the thread topic, but I stayed for the Up Yours!

I am tired of the overgunned and underskilled, of the 100yd shooter and the RUM. I'm bored with it.

Send a shooter in to hunt and let him do what he can do, whatever he is carrying! Good on ya, 30-30 Guy!

I've hunted with one since 1971.

My conclusion is that it is quite capable, even of more than it's given credit for.

I've killed deer, bear, and pigs with it.

And, farther than the mystical *100* yards.

All-in-all, I like the cartridge.

Fine cartridge that is more limited by the platform it is usually found in than the cartridge itself. For years 30-30 rifles were open sighted platforms. Take your trusty 30-06 remove the scope and watch its utility drop.

I've killed a Bull moose with the .30-30 as well. Also a Black bear and A bunch of deer and turkeys. Currently though I'm loving me some belted magnums.

There have been FEW cartridges that I've owned that I've never missed.

The 30-30 is at the top of the list.
I don't rant on it or anyone using it,
It's not my cup o' tea.

The 30-30 been doing that sort of thing since 1892! While I would think long and hard about taking one on an expensive hunt like Alaska Moose, but on the other hand if I lived their like I did, such a rifle - cartridge would be ok, not perfect but what rifle cartridge is? Learn to shoot, and learn to hunt and learn were to place the bullet, we tend to go over board on these things, and I will be the first to admit that in my current hunting I am shooting way to much gun for the game, Woodland White Tails, in South Eastern CT, with a 7mm RM, a 30-30 or a 243 would be more than enough, the local deer run about 100 lbs these days, over population of them!

i love the 30/30 and use one regularly when i can pry it out of my son's hands. that said, i doubt the validity of that story. i know it will kill a moose, but that story sounds a bit out there.

The 30-30 didn't come out till 1895. I have nothing against the round, have 7-8 rifles chambered in 30-30. It works just as advertised, but no better than anything else. In fact the 7X57 is a far better round and it did come out in 1892. The 30-30 was a step backwards the day it was invented.

30-30 does just fine on everything if you do your part.

I know a guy that thinks ALL gun hunting is overkill. He's got two grissly, a moose and a polar bear by bow and arrow.
The Eskimos guiding his polar bear hunt used a 22250 for the sole "back up" rifle!
I might not be up on the newer arrow technology but call me a chicken.....I'd rather be carrying a 3030 w/good ammo than a bow on hunts like that.

A 30-30 lever gun is about the last fuggin' firearm I'd ever buy.




Travis

Get-A-Life

This is the best I can do.

Sorry.



Travis

I have one of these old relics in 30.30 that shoots 125 NBT's into tiny, tiny little knots.



Every year I manage to whack a few crows and groundhogs with it and have to say it makes me grin like 'possum eating [bleep]. My nephew used it last year to kill 2 does and they didn't act like they were offended by being shot with it instead of a super magnum. I can think of worse cartridges out there to run with.

Is that a 340?



Travis

Yes sir.

Bitchin'.




Travis

Yep, trigger has about 3 inches of creep and the stock smells like naptha. But she is a sugar.

Neat old rifle. Back in my teens I bought a Savage 340 30-30 at a yard sale for $50. It's long gone, but I wish I had kept it. Mine just had iron sights.