Hunting with 30-30
- Thread starter StiffDrink
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Indeed, here let me help it along. The 30-30 is good for all North American game!
nomad 68
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Try the 160 gr hornady leverevolutions in it. Amazing accuracy in my 336. BTW, that little .30/30 will reliably take deer,moose and black bear. There are always better choices but the 30/30 will be up for the task i'm sure.
If the .30/30 is all you have, then that's what you use. Shoot the 170 Silver tip Win, 170 Fed Fusion or Hornady LeverEvolution 160 FTX... Stay within 150 yards... Practice with your gun and load and place the bullet in the lungs.
Johnn Peterson
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Good choice and they work well. Another favorite of mine, and something that's no longer available, the old C.I.L. Pneumatic. They were a close second choice for me.
I was assuming that your .30/30 is a lever action, likely Win or Marlin... You can also shoot spire points with one in the chamber and ONLY ONE in the magazine... I shoot .30/30 in single shot rifles and mine love the Nosler 150 BT's over LVR powder...
I don't know why so many people place such a restricted distance on the killing power of the 30-30 class, or less, rifles.
Of the true stories that I know have really happened over the years, I will give two examples.
In Manitoba in homestead days a group of men were working with their teams of horses at a gravel pit in the winter. A moose appeared at a known distance of a quarter mile. One of the men was a Native Indian and he stated that if the moose showed up the next day, he would kill him. The others all laughed at him, telling him the distance was 440 yards. "I know," said the Native, "I'll shoot him."
The next morning the Indian brought his rifle with him, a Winchester 44-40!
As if on schedule, at noon the moose appeared, same place. The Native took a long, thought out aim, shot and killed the animal, with the one shot!
In homestead Saskatchewan was an exceptionally good hunter who used an 1894 Winchester, in 32 Special calibre. In the winter he took his team and sleigh to a field, where he had a stack of hay. He loaded the hay, then climbed up on the hayrack to go home. He looked and saw a moose beyond the end of the field. He knew his haystack was 300 yards from the end of the field and he said the moose was about thirty yards beyond the field.
He laid down on his load of hay, made a mental calculation of elevation needed, carefully squeezed off a shot and killed the moose.
Regardless what you may say about what I have written, I know the two events happened, exactly as I have written.
At sixteen years of age I was able to bring down a large British Columbia bull moose with one shot from a model 94 30-30 with a piece of leather in place of the rear sight elevator. Of course back then I didn't know that the 30-30 was no good for moose.
