Capabilities of a 30-30
- Thread starter mikeystew
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I'm going to go out on a limb here a bit, with no facts to back this up, .....
but back in the day, perhaps they didn't have to shoot across these vast cutblocks as often as now. Maybe hunting was more of a close encounter thing, where the 30-30 shines. It hasn't lost its place, as there is still a lot of close bush.
- Location
- AB foothills
Sounds like a whale of a tale too me
Would love to see some pics of the walrus and whale
giant yetti
Regular
- Location
- Mighty Peace
every now and again, some one likes those encounters...
- Location
- Back in the Peace Country
Sounds like a whale of a tale too me
Would love to see some pics of the walrus and whale
The Whales were Narwhals and the Walrus, well, was a Walrus..
The gun was given to me from my Dad, who bought three Marlins when he worked with the Hudson Bay Company in Taloyoak (Spence Bay), pretty damn far north... the 30/30 was used exclusively for his hunting rifle, and many of his buddies used the same. We had about 7 Narwhal tusks, that were all stolen (lost
) by a moving company back in the 70's... Dad got a 200 insuranse claim...Anyhow,.. he was back there just a few months ago, CBC did a big interview with him and stuff,.. it was pretty cool. My sister lives in Yellowknife and does a lot of travelling through the area as well.
He's coming up for geese in October, I'll get him to bring the pics.. they are awesome... some of the furs, and the number of furs is stunning,...as well as some of the rifles.. he was stranded on an island up there for a couple of days when the ice cut their canvas canoe.. a bunch of stories and pics that were his glory days in his early 20's....
I'll definitely get some pics up of the animals and the 30/30 ...
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The Whales were Narwhals and the Walrus, well, was a Walrus..
The gun was given to me from my Dad, who bought three Marlins when he worked with the Hudson Bay Company in Taloyoak (Spence Bay), pretty dam far north... the 30/30 was used exclusively for his hunting rifle, and many of his buddies used the same. We had abot 7 Narwhal tusks, that were all stolen (lost
Anyhow,.. he was back there just a few months ago, CBC did a big interview with him and stuff,.. it was pretty cool. My sister lives in Yellowknife and does a lot of travelling through the area as well.
He's coming up for geese in October, I'll get him to bring the pics.. they are awesome... some of the furs, and the number of furs in stunning,...as well as some of the rifles.. he was stranded on an island up there for a couple of days whe the ice cut their canvas canoe.. a buch of stories and pics that were his glory days in his early 20's....
I'll definitely get some pics up of the animals and the 30/30 ...
Excellent account.
Just to add a bit to it, my nephew was with the RCMP and stationed for quite a while in the eastern arctic, in the sixties. The government supplied ammunition for the Eskimos. It was all cases of 30-30, Dominion ammunition and it was given to the RCMP for distribution to the Natives. The individual 30-30 boxes had a printed, three or four letters, on it to distinguish it from commercial ammo.
- Location
- Back in the Peace Country
The Whales were Narwhals and the Walrus, well, was a Walrus..
The gun was given to me from my Dad, who bought three Marlins when he worked with the Hudson Bay Company in Taloyoak (Spence Bay), pretty damn far north... the 30/30 was used exclusively for his hunting rifle, and many of his buddies used the same. We had about 7 Narwhal tusks, that were all stolen (lost
Anyhow,.. he was back there just a few months ago, CBC did a big interview with him and stuff,.. it was pretty cool. My sister lives in Yellowknife and does a lot of travelling through the area as well.
He's coming up for geese in October, I'll get him to bring the pics.. they are awesome... some of the furs, and the number of furs is stunning,...as well as some of the rifles.. he was stranded on an island up there for a couple of days when the ice cut their canvas canoe.. a bunch of stories and pics that were his glory days in his early 20's....
I'll definitely get some pics up of the animals and the 30/30 ...
Dad tells me the whales were harpooned and they had a line tied to a barrel (float) they'd follow the whale nd when it surfaced , they'd shoot it... then pull it up on the boat or into shore... he said that they actually did use the blubber for oil in some lamps...
He also said that he did meteorlogical readings for Canada something or other,.. basically recording and reporting the temperature and barometer readings at some isolated area...
He was being hounded by some wild huskies for a week, and one night when he left the shop, the huskies were out by the door. He said the HBC had a lovely 16 gauge double barrel for sale,.. he pulled it off the rack and cut two salt shells.. he fired on the dogs, but only heard a whistle from the second shot and a pop. He threw in another shell, this time a regualr one and fired in the air,... KABOOM... the barrel swole out ..
That was my first shotgn. People laughed at the kid with the double barrel single shot...
.. he stuffed a cork i the bad barrel so I couldn't load it accidentally. I got in fixed when I was in my 20's and it is by far my favourite shotgun...
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- Location
- Squamish, BC
I work in Northern Ontario. Near Webequie. Everybody up here uses .30-30 for moose and bears (and they grow them big here!). Furthermore, they've been used on marine mammals along our north coast for quite a long time. Most of the guys here have never even picked up a .30-06. I'm fairly certain this, along with the .303's, is the case in most of the north where old guns dominate.
You can argue ballistics, but the proof is in the pudding. I always carry my model 94 up here.
Here's a pic of me, hard at work on a balmy March day @ -45 C
You can argue ballistics, but the proof is in the pudding. I always carry my model 94 up here.
Here's a pic of me, hard at work on a balmy March day @ -45 C
- Location
- Back in the Peace Country
wonderful pic...
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
In North America, the .30/30 would win. Not only was it used extensively in the States, but it was big medicine in Mexico as well. The .303 is not well known outside of Canada on this side of the ocean. Now if you included India, Africa, and Australia, I might agree.
I'm thinking just how much a walrus or whale would cost to taxidermy
I'd take a 30/30 past 200 yards now ..... but only with the new lever evolution ammo, we tried it out at the range at 200 yards , works VERRRRY well. Hand loads in a bolt 30/30 ( savage 325 a and b) with spire points works quite nicely too . Factory 150 yards ....no way i'd go farther out.
They've been selling the 30-30 in large numbers for, what, about 119 years now?
If it didn't work.. don'tcha think we'd have figured that out by this point?
We're Canadians..... still testing it, and will get back to you......
Maybe you can get a government grant to test the feasibilty of using the 30-30 center-fire cartridge to hunt large game. Once your study is completed at a cost to the taxpayers of untold tens of thousands of dollars we should be able to put this issue to rest once and for all.
