Title says it all except to ask what bullet you are using !

I just loaded up some Barnes TSX 150s with LeverEvolution powder. Just over 2400 FPS! Max load is 28.5 grains. I got well under inch groups at 25.5 grains so the workup stopped right there. I wouldn't be afraid to go 200 with that combination. I think maxed out if the accuracy held up decently at all it would still run out of speed around 250 though. 30-30 bullets don't tend to have impressive BCs.

I killed a 2' mooring buoy at 750 yards with a few 170gr Speers.

Shot a big turtle in the tank with a Hot Cor 170 Gr.

I'd estimate about 50 yards!

story bout out neighbor up at the farm, he's an old fella in his 80s now, but back when he was younger he was a crack shot with his old 94 win 30-30 They had some wild dogs that were harrassing cows out in a 40 acre pasture, story goes, and this was verified by 4-5 differnt farmers that were all hunting the dogs at the same time, that old jerome layed that old 94' across a corner post and killed the lead mutt clear on the other fence line of that 40 acre pasture with his open sighted 3030. that 40 is still there with the same fence, and i ranged it where he told me the dog was at 442 yards +- just as a closing, The last deer he killed was last year, a doe, at 203 yards with that 30 30 sitting right next to me, that damn;d 30 30 barely touched his shoulder and that ol 94 barked and that doe tipped over stone ass'd dead. Suffice it to say, i sure as heck wouldnt wanna be in front of him and that ol 30 30 even if he was in his 90s!

I killed a doe a few years ago at 210 yards with a 30-30 using 150 grain Federal factory load. The rifle is an H&R 1871.

I believe one of the Win 94 loonies that hangs out on this site has made some long shots at paper with a scoped 30-30. Not sure about game.

I used to hunt with a couple of California Blacktail hunters who used old Red Box Federal 125gr bullets in thier scoped Marlin 30/30's and killed those little (under 100lbs, soaking wet) blacktails at over 300 yards from time to time.

I want to get my hands on a good solid beater/hunter grade 30/30 someday and AI it, then load up some 130gr TTSX's.

I killed a young bull with a Mt. Baldy 150 grn. hard cast about 200yds.....azz in first! No meat damage whatsoever and it exited thru the right shoulder. Tried to do a quartering off hand shot....did not quite work as planned.

it was AI'd and believed to be chronied at 24 plus somewherabouts....don't have the old computer up and running soooo.

1283 yds, knitonaknatsknut. Seldom seen or done.

That load ought to flat out work. Are you using the regular pointy TSX or the ones with the flat noses? Latest info and tests says the old tale of no pointy bullets in tube magazines is hooey.

Measured with your Simmons rangefinder?

Yep. Hard to hold on hair though.

Found one that doesn't believe in waxing? Just your luck.

A buddy of mine killed a very nice buck back in the early 90s with a 30.30. I can remember thinking that is was about as far as I could hit a 3 wood. It was a hell of a shot. The deer was walking slowly and after being hit it only went about 10 yards. It is one of the nicest deer that I have seen taken here in N.C. This buddy of mine is an incredible hunter. Some of his accomplishments are amazing.

its knowing your equipment and some of these old guys just knew their equipment well, because often it was the one gun they owned...

he my grandad thought a 300 Savage was a magnum of some sort.. and a 30/40 Krag with a 30 inch barrel was a cannon...

heck my granddad shot a deer at a half mile with one... yet every time we heard that story, the distance got a few yards further each time...

of course my granddad captured the entire German Army in 1918 also...

and I think that materialized from my grandmother knew Alvin York and her family knew his real well.. and at times she would just casually say when she was mad at him for something stupid... I think I maybe should have married Alvin instead... which would immediately piss him off to no end..

and make we kids laugh our fannies off when he wasn't looking on account of how much it pissed him off...and she would secretly smile at us when he wasn't looking...

I killed one in '09 at 236 yards. Hornady FP at 2180 fps. Rifle is a Winchester M94 with a Williams FP rear, Marbles bead front sight. Bullet still fully penetrated and the deer went about 20 yards before going down.

Buddy & I use to shoot at an old strip mine and got pretty good at cantaloupe sized rocks in the opposite highwall about 300-350 yds. The only killing shot & only shot I took at a deer with a 30/30 was a whopping 30yds.

I sure don't qualify. I've never taken a shot more than 100yds. I'm good at getting close. No so much at long shots.

hit milk jugs at 400 with my cousins.....sad sorry thing had a scope on it.

I kept mine original. They were gifts from great grandpa before he died.

Kilt a mule deer buck years ago with my Marlin 336 at about 200 yds. 150 grainers IIRC,

181 yds. W/ a long barreled '94 firing a 170 NP @2400, used a Lyman peep and a set of sticks, little buck went down, got up walked a half circle, and down for keeps.

Full penetration behind shoulder and out through the other one.

Gunner

Thirty years or so ago, my uncle killed a big (giant in those days) buck at what was later stepped off at 260 yards with a running shot. One of the best shots, maybe the best shot on actual game, that I have ever seen. He was/is deadly with that 30-30.

I used the 30-30 TSXs with the big hole in the nose and the flat tip. I don't believe I'd max that out with pointy bullets in the magazine and MY fingers wrapped around the forend. I think from they way the workup was going with my rifle and the LeverEvolution powder that by the time I got to 28.5, the published max, that I'd have been on the high side of 2700. It might work, but I'd be twitchy enough touching it off with that recoil I wouldn't be able to hit the ground.

Barnes 130s with the flex tip sitting on top of a little more LeverEvolution powder would be something though. I bet you could get 2900 with them or the Barnes 30 cal 110s.

Personally, I don't use my 30-30 for anything other than really close work. Those 150s at 2400are well more than I need.

A dogs body at over 400 yards would be probably half as wide as the front sight tip, which would have to be held several feet above the intended target. The man must have been an amazing shot. I wish I had the means to fire the number of rounds with a rifle to get that good with it. That's one thing that fewer people are experiencing, which is a life where shooting is common around the house/farm.

Alberta buck, dressed about 180 lbs, 210 yards, Rem 170 CoreLokt, Model 94 carbine with a Williams 5D sight.

Got this guy at 178 yards with a Winchester 150gr. jacketed hollow point.

Nice looking cat!

he still is a helluva shot, i couldnt hit the barn if i was standing in it with open sights, its the only centerfire rifle he's ever owned, i believe he got it from his father. He just knew his gun, and depended on it to protect live stock and put venison on the table for his family.

The longest shot I made with my .30-30 on a deer was 314 yards. I killed several others {5} between 200 and 250 over the years. All with a 1949 vintage Winchester 94 with Williams receiver sight and the small size Lyman flat faced Ivory bead. Load was 150 gr. Rem core-lokt in front of a max charge of IMR 3031.

They're even prettier walking around.

Damn a cat.