Remington Model 30 off the bucket list

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I picked this rifle up not too long ago from Reliable Gun in Vancouver, been on my bucket list for some time. I was looking for a Remington Model 30 in very good or better condition and while checking over their website this one came up,didn't take long to make up my mind on it either.I am very pleased with this rifle and it is definitely in better condition than a few of them I have seen over the past few years. A big thank you to the Reliable crew on this one, gonna try her out next month when I head up north to my old stompin' grounds.
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I believe they were made with leftover parts....no milsurps were harmed in the process....
It's kind of nice...about as nice as you can make a 1917 sporter....they don't really fall into the "elegant" category....just a big beefy pot-belly action.
I just shot my Rem 1917 in a milshoot on the weekend, and I was thinking you could probably make 2 modern Rem 700 receivers out of the bar of steel that was needed to make one 1917 action.
 
Hitzy said:
I believe they were made with leftover parts....no milsurps were harmed in the process....
It's kind of nice...about as nice as you can make a 1917 sporter....they don't really fall into the "elegant" category....just a big beefy pot-belly action.
I just shot my Rem 1917 in a milshoot on the weekend, and I was thinking you could probably make 2 modern Rem 700 receivers out of the bar of steel that was needed to make one 1917 action.
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Prolly could make 4 out of the bayonet.
 
How deep are the holes in the chamber area? First time I have seen an Enfield tapped there, curious what the mount would have been.
 
bjmurata said:
I picked this rifle up not too long ago from Reliable Gun in Vancouver, been on my bucket list for some time. I was looking for a Remington Model 30 in very good or better condition and while checking over their website this one came up,didn't take long to make up my mind on it either.I am very pleased with this rifle and it is definitely in better condition than a few of them I have seen over the past few years. A big thank you to the Reliable crew on this one, gonna try her out next month when I head up north to my old stompin' grounds.
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Very nice - yours is a Model 30 SX I think, but I can't tell as your pics don't clearly show the maker of the Peep Sight and you don't mention it - is it the Lyman? I have the more common Model 30A.
 
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Very nice - yours is a Model 30 SX I think, but I can't tell as your pics don't clearly show the maker of the Peep Sight and you don't mention it - is it the Lyman? I have the more common Model 30A.
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Yes,it is a Lyman peep sight and my understanding is the rifle is a Model 30 SX as you point out.
 
Thanks for the kind comments all, the photos show the wood as darker than it really is and it does have decent grain with some figure to it.The rifle does at first appear a bit clunky perhaps but not as much when you actually handle it.Very solid and comfortable to point,just like most any commercial P14/P17 sporter I've handled at various times.The rifle appears to me at least to have had very little use and the bore is mirror bright,can't wait to try her out.I'm really pleased so far.
 
I see now where the Remington 600 series got its bolt handle inspiration.

Interesting rifle.
 
The Remington M-30 is certainly an old school bolt gun, and with the aperture sight, it can still be loaded with clips which is pretty cool for a sporting rifle. That is the same model of rifle Jeff Cooper carried in the Yukon, near Kluane Lake, as a 20 year old youngster, in 1940, well before the Alaska Highway was ever considered. Topped with a 2.5X Noske scope, considered by many to be the best of the period, he took sheep, goat, caribou, moose, and grizzlies all before his 21st birthday. A year earlier he successfully hunted sheep in Alberta, and had used the rifle to shoot jackrabbits in preparation; perhaps Elmer Fudd would have approved. Two years previously he had killed a trophy elk near Jackson Hole. Most teens today are such wusses, although few families even now would have the means to send their sons on such adventures.

I love the cartridge designation, "Springfield .30 Cal. 1906" I'll have to get that stamped on one of my '06s. Your rifle appears to be the M-30SR which designates the niceties of better wood, checkering, engraving and the Redfield aperture sight. All in all, an excellent addition to any collection.
 
A very similar Model 30 Express was owned by an older brother and I shot my first white tail with it when I was sixteen and had three more deer and a moose by the time I left my teen years, all with that rifle.
That rifle also had the Lyman 48 but the front sight was different, in that it had a band that went around the barrel that held the sight, a gold bead. It was also just plain blue metal.
The stock is was the original military, reworked a bit. If you rapped your thumb around the top, like the usual hold, you usually got hit in the nose when it recoiled.
 
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