The kids start with the .30-30's, but when they grow up they get a .30-06. That is how it was in my family. .30-30 is a great whitetail cartridge, but in a darn unsafe early lever action M94 or M336. Everything needs to go through the action to unload it and that hammer is back during the process. They were inexpensive and light weight, so lots of first time shooters have them. When one of our guy guys loaned out a rifle to a new guy, it was a .30-30. Ill advised in retrospect. I remember the time we caught a new guy with the .30-30 still loaded in the car with him saying it was too much trouble to unload it.
