we all go through phases in life where our opinions change. If you live on the east coast and have been burning 70 grains of powder per shot to take a 100 yard deer you may reach a point that you grow some and then want to hunt just in order to hunt and not so much feel like you have to burn that much powder per shot to do it. Then the economy makes us all frugal these days and the 30-30 is right at the top of the list there. So the way I look at it many are always fretting about that 300 yard shot that they never seem to get a chance at because they are in the "gimmicks are everything" phase of their hunting lives. Others have passed that point and realize that lots of stuff is important not just how much powder your gun burns per shot.
