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Sweet rifle and nice shooting sqweeler! What load are you using there?

PennDog

Mild load. 22.5 gr 3031 170gr cast

my new ruger custom #1.

Both grandsons' will be carrying 30-30's I got on here. Marlin 336's. I will have my 35 Marlin out. Should get a few that week. We love the meat and also share with the older guy's that cannot get out but come over to camp to hang out and eat. First deer in will not last the week will be eaten. Best time of the year for me. Love it.

Just finished restocking a 1952 Marlin, (pawn shop find with a badly butchered stock). I'll probably end up with an old steel tubed 2.4.5x Weaver on it, because my old eyes don't work with irons any more, but it'll definitely get some woods time this season.

Have a range of ammo and bullets for mine but the main load I worked up uses a Barnes 150gn very open point at 2456fps.
Haven't used it yet but aligned it on a nice 8 point whitetail a couple of years back but declined the shot.

30-30, huh?

Challenge accepted!

I'll carry a '94 loaded with 195gr RCBS cast bullets sitting on top of a mashed case-full of IMR 4350. Gets about 2050 fps. This will be for elk in the timber while I help my daughter find her buck.

More upright. Putting the butt into your collar bone isn't a good way to go.

JM 336 will be first up to bat this year... 150 TSXs. Group right about an inch at 100 yards.

I will. 1964 Model 94 that shoots 170 Corelokts pretty well. It has peep sights. I’m looking for meat not antler.
Good luck and have fun! Tom

Well, if I couldn't use one of,
2 308s
2 30-06s,
2 7mags
And a few more,
And the scope broke on my 30-30 and no others could be obtained.

I might be rocking an open sighted 30-30.

But would rather use the scoped in-line.



Vision isn't great, too often a scope is required to sort out a shot in thick stuff.

Flintlock and revolvers are the only things I've ever hunted with irons.

In 1986 I bought a model 94AE Winchester I gave it to my dad and it sat in the gun closet. After he passed it sat in my gun cabinet for years. About 3 years ago I finally got around to scoping it with a 2.5 luepold ultra light. I then worked up a reasonable load with some Norma N=200 and a Sierra 170 grain fp. Yesterday we finally got out to stalk through the woodlot. It handy and a lot lighter then my 30-06. I think sometimes we just don't appreciate somethings until we're.older.

Just picked up my first 30/30 this year

A Model 54 in 30/30 is one of my few unicorn rifles on my want list. Getting too old to chase on anymore tho.
That or a Model 30S, in 30 Remington...

That's all ya really need...

I've got a lever action Marlin 336, that has had a 4 power Tasco on top of it since the early 80s.
Think I paid $29 for that scope and it still works just as fine and clear as when I bought it in MN... their Pronghorn model.

I've used a .30-30 almost every season since 1979. This year won't be any different.

I got around to getting my 30-30 out. Still works like it used to. Ended up sighting it in with 150 federal non typical factory ammo. 40 yards through the shoulder and stopped in the hide a few inches in front of the opposite hind quarter. He ran 20 yards and died. Not much for horns but he was old and a bigger deer for the pine cone for food area we are in. Bullet did some work.

Yes I carry a 30-30 every year so this year was no different. I have the Winchester and the Marlin variety

Msuhunter…..


That’s a freaking TOAD!

Merry Christmas!

Got to sit with this one a few times last week... but didn't get to drop the hammer. Sighted at 100 with 150 TSX.