do you love the .30-30?

so you hunt with the .30-30?

  • yes, I take grizzly's with it!

    Votes: 22 19.3%

  • yes, I take moose with it!

    Votes: 53 46.5%

  • I hate the .30-30!

    Votes: 17 14.9%

  • I'm still in the closet regarding this cartridge...

    Votes: 22 19.3%
  • Total voters
    114
Sure like it. Great for plinking. But not for hunting so couldn't vote.

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I shot my first deer with a 30-30. Voted that I hate it. Not because I do, but just because I don't love it, and I know I don't like it.
 
Only recently bought a Mossberg 464 which I love,looking forward to trying it out for spring black bear,all my hunting is done at 100 yards or less so it suits me fine.
 
sgt.rock said:
My hunting party has actually taken at least 7 bull moose over the years with the "boat .30-30" we leave one in the bow of the boat (14' lund) for quick, close quarters shots on moose we happen upon. Almost all taken at less than 20 yds. Usually too close a shot for the scoped 300winmags everyone carries.
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Where I grew up and where I have done virtually all of my hunting the 30-30, and it's stablemate the 32 Special, have taken an untold number of moose and everything else for the exact same reason you mention in your post. A great deal of the shots that come up are relatively close range in mixed bush and often present themselves with little notice. In situations such as these the 30-30 is perfectly adequate to get the job done, assuming the hunter behind the rifle knows what they are doing and can place the shots where they count.
That being said I don't know if I outright love the 30-30 but I do have two of them, an H&R single shot and a Model 94 lever action and I really do enjoy both of them.
 
The hunting community is so fickle with one chambering attaining huge popularity then fading...currently there is much interest in the 7.2x39 which is ballistically close to the 30/30 which many people seem to think is inadequite
 
Did not vote there was no box with (I just like to take it for a walk every once in a while).I was a must have gun years ago.It was the first Rifle I bought it was Winchester pre 64 for 50.00 still like it but there are better calibers for hunting.Just my view.
 
Take it or leave it, mostly leave it.

If I hunted with one, it would have a receiver sight, not a scope. My reason for passing is that my 20" 760 in 30-06 with receiver sight is a better rifle with a better chambering.
 
I currently have 4 rifles chambered for the 30-30 WCF. I don't know why I just do.
I have about 600 empty brass, 2 sets of reloading dies and about 250 factory and reloaded rounds.

Yes I guess I like the 30-30. It is just comfortable knowing that I have this at my disposal.

David
 
I’m indifferent to the 30-30, don’t hate it and I don’t love it. Mainly because I don’t find much attraction to lever actions, you can’t deny that it has been used with great success for decades to hunt a lot of different game. I have shot a few lever actions and always want to like them but I always come away from it saying “yeah, same as always. Nice gun but it didn’t do it for me.”
 
A 30-30 is a good idea for a spare / truck gun or back up gun, especially around Sask. Reasonably cheap, ammo can be found anywhere. 303 Enfields used to fall into this category but lately ammo is getting a bit scarce and expensive to find. Those old 94's are like the energizer bunny, darn things just keep going and going....... Yeah there are better guns and calibers, but when your wife looses the clip and ammo for her 7-08 or the scope on your buddys 300 mag gets whacked while getting out of the truck, the old trente-trente is better than nothing.
 
funny the comments about superior cartridges. yes...there are. but then there are superior cartridges to those cartridges. that's a slippery slope of logic to use. it's valid, but with many caveat's and exceptions to temper it's use. ;)

it wouldn't be far out to say the .30-30 and the .45-70 are two the most successful and enduring cartridges every made...so all the poopoo'ing of the .30-30 doesn't really make sense. LOL!
 
i love mine, its a 1962, although it hasnt come out of the safe in a bit, used to be my dads, he got a couple of black bears with it, me not so much, i like the furries.
I learned to shoot on that rifle when I was 13, I will teach my daughter to shoot with it when shes around that age.
safe to say it is priceless to me
 
I like the 30-30 for Deer in the thick Ontario brush but LOVE the 35 Rem. I used the 30-30 in a Marlin until I found another older JM Marlin in 35 Rem that has replaced the 30-30
 
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