The .30-30 Should Have Died 50 Years Ago! — #341

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• JE

  @jeffhutchins7048 · 3 months ago (edited)

  I had an older, farmer, customer come in and talk about all of the deer he shot with his 26&quot; 30-30 Winchester rifle.<br>Some of the ranges were 100 yards more than most people would expect to hear. It was his ONLY hunting rifle.<br>My coworker asked me how he did that. I said, &quot;nobody ever told him he couldn&apos;t.&quot;<br>Brings to mind the old adage: BEWARE OF THE MAN WITH ONE RIFLE.

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• RI

  @rickeytouchstone4702 · 3 months ago

  At the range most deer are taken a <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-efn1QIn0KU&amp;t=1830">30:30</a> works very well.

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• KE

  @kentreichow7567 · 3 months ago

  Happy 4th everyone Happy Birthday &nbsp;America 🇺🇸

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• CH

  @chacal1129 · 3 months ago

  Paul Harrell always endorsed the 30-30. He did several videos featuring it and talking about how it&apos;s still a perfectly adequate cartridge today.

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• DA

  @danielburch436 · 3 months ago

  Deer don&apos;t look at or understand ballistic charts.

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• YO

  @yomamaaintmymama · 3 months ago (edited)

  In the dinky insignificant town i own a home in...way up north in Ft.Fairfield Maine...about 3/4 of a mile from Perth -Andover New Brunswick Canada....is a little IGA grocery....its the only store in town. You get 7 isles of mostly generic foods..you have a tiny produce selection thats dominated by potato varieties...and the liquore selection is extensive. &nbsp;But do you know what the most important thing in in the store is....? You can buy 30-30 ammo. 12 ga and .22 lr and MAG right next to the tobacco. There is a VERY VERY good reason for that. Those 4 cartridges have kept people in Aroostook county and places just like it ...fed for over a 100 years. I have seen moose taken and weighed in that town that exceeded 1200 lbs. I have seen deer every year hung for the winters meat that dropped in their tracks and never even blinked after impact. I have seen a dozen coyotes taken in one morning. ...every one of these things were taken by 30-30 and most of the shells were bought with a gallon of milk and a sack of taters and some side bacon at the HILLSIDE IGA on the way to camp. 30-30 is around after all this time because it works. Its reliable in the platforms its produced in and its versitile enough to be the only rifle you own. Prove me wrong...

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• BI

  @billwright9256 · 3 months ago

  I bought my Marlin 336 30-30 at K Mart with 2 boxes of shells and a Soft case for $102.00

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• XI

  @Xileph410 · 3 months ago

  The first (not 22) rifle I ever shoot was a 30-30 Winchester when I was 14 year old and I love it. What a great cartridge and rifle.

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• JE

  @jeffhutchins7048 · 3 months ago

  Not to long ago it wasn&apos;t uncommon to see a 30-30 in a Sheriff&apos;s Deputy&apos;s patrol vehicle. Probably still CAN in some areas.

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• JE

  @jeffhutchins7048 · 3 months ago (edited)

  One of the BIG advantages of the 30-30 is that the bullets are OPTIMIZED for the cartridge.<br>They are made to WORK at those velocities. They aren&apos;t made to work at 308, 30-06, 300 Winchester Magnum AND 300 RUM velocities. Thats a BIG spread, optimized for NONE of those calibers.

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• EN

  @enjoypool4052 · 3 months ago

  I was visiting with an “old timer” his story (found to be true) was about he had gotten an elk tag. &nbsp;First he got the tag on his first attempt which was hard to do and second &nbsp;he showed up with a Winchester 94 30-30. &nbsp;Other hunters thought it was not likely he would have any luck. &nbsp;First day out he shot a 6x6 elk at about 35 yards. &nbsp;He wasn’t to impressed with elk hunting

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• JE

  @jeffhutchins7048 · 3 months ago

  It did die, just NOBODY noticed.

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