For people who wonder if a 30-30 can do it.

It's quite amazing how some people just about go into fits if the rifle isn't shiny and new with the latest craze and bullet technology. a guy at the range a couple of months ago looked at me like I wuz holding a sling shot and spear when I pulled out my newly unwrapped (sorta) 303 Enfield #4 Mk2 and 30/30 Marlin for hunting.

That 303 is a stomper and the 30/30 is a game getter too. Yet to him, with his 6.5 Creedmore and 270 wsm (I think that's what he said), I was right outta the stone age. The point is we both put rounds into our targets solidly and with authority. I know what my 30/30 can do and how dangerously powerful the 125 and 150 grainers are on deer and black bear. That 174 gr BT is a very hard hitting and solid smacking round on Mr. Moose too. To those whom have only memorized the ballistics charts, stay home with your opinions until you have actually tried the rounds out to their limits and witnessed their effectiveness. A 30/30 is fantastic at 200 yards. A 303 way beyond that.
 
Dumptruck said:
This is why I miss mine. Sold it before I left Nova Scotia and have regretted it ever since.
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Post on the EE looking for one. You will have two dozen offers in the first hour, and they won't all be $400 or more. There are still some good deals on well-used rifles out there that work slick as butter and shoot as good or better than the new ones. :)

Ted
 
John Y Cannuck said:
Years ago I could shoot the '94 with issue sights not bad, but the installation of peeps made all the difference. It will never compete with the best of bolt guns, but it will do as well as some.

I use 170 grain Hornady Interlocks for moose, and I don't hot load them, they have yet to fail me. BTW I don't take bad angle shots.
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The buckhorn sights we see on most lever rifles are one of the reasons lever guns don't have a reputation for accuracy. Use some good sights and all is better. Not that you don't know this ;)

Even good aperture sights have limitations though, especially with post 40 yr old eyes. I get a 3" group at 100 with my Mdl 94 Trapper 45 colt. Stick a scope on it and I get cloverleafs all day.
 
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Peep sights of course.
 
A 30/30 is a moose killer if you are a hunter. If you are just a shooter maybe you need something hotter. Nothing wrong with moose hunting with a 30/30 if you have a cool head.
 
Tikka6xc said:
What's the peep sight u have on there?
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A Williams FP reciever sight with the Firesite slightly smaller bead up front.
You guys may or may not believe this, but I cleanly took this one @260 yards.
Using Winchester 150 grain Silvertip. I practiced for three months in the previous summer fully intending to use a 26" barrelled Canadian Centennial 30-30 rifle.
However after about eight weekends of use it suddenly developed feeding issues. Thankfully I had Dad's (now sadly deceased) 1956 made Winchester carbine as backup.
Took this one almost full onto me as he stood very still. Used his white throat patch as a referance point. High sight in of about 3"s @100. I knew that the trajectory would place the bullet into the boiler room. Bullet struck two inches left of centre of his chest. It took one stumbling step and collapsed right there. His fault was chasing the ladies that day and I caught him on the edge of a field of winter wheat, and yes I took him from the offhand. (yes another strange but true fact fellas) I had no other option as the winter wheat, all around me was half grown and there was not time to do otherwise.
I immediately reloaded and had my eyes glued to him as I paced off the shot. No followup required.
You would not believe the damage to his chest from that one single bullet.
Besides pretty much smashing the heart and collapsing both lungs, also the front 1/4 of tenderloins were smashed from small bits of lead bullet fragments.
I've since lost track of the empty and peeled back copper jacket that weighs about 78 grains, recovered just under the opposite hide. Got alot of incredulous looks as I had this one tied down in the open trunk of my 1994 four door Saturn sedan all the way home. Was a great day for me and Dad's 30-30 carbine.

You can choose to believe or not believe this story friends and I would not blame you for doing so.

Cheers!
 
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Gatehouse said:
The buckhorn sights we see on most lever rifles are one of the reasons lever guns don't have a reputation for accuracy. Use some good sights and all is better. Not that you don't know this ;)

Even good aperture sights have limitations though, especially with post 40 yr old eyes. I get a 3" group at 100 with my Mdl 94 Trapper 45 colt. Stick a scope on it and I get cloverleafs all day.
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Thanks for that, I was wondering how you made out with that rifle.
 
Brutus said:
Yeah, it looks that way doesn't it?
Actually this is in the CFB Cold Lake PMQs. I shot this one on the morning of the 22nd of November 2005.
Out in the Cold Lake Petrolleum Oilfields area.
I now live 'in the city of Cold Lake.'
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Well, at least you folks have nice water. Very nice buck by the way.
 
I checked out the OP's first video, and found this one by the same guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F27smqnELBQ He says he's hunting Whitetails in Saskatchewan, but at no point in the video do you see him wearing blaze orange? I was just hunting there last week, and it's still the law, so what gives? If your from the southern US and have your own TV show, your exempt from the regulations?
 
dragoon7214 said:
I checked out the OP's first video, and found this one by the same guy: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F27smqnELBQ He says he's hunting Whitetails in Saskatchewan, but at no point in the video do you see him wearing blaze orange? I was just hunting there last week, and it's still the law, so what gives? If your from the southern US and have your own TV show, your exempt from the regulations?
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Indian reserve. Differing rules, like it or not. There's lots of American hunting shows filmed on Saskatchewan treaty lands and the modern rifle hunters are most often dressed as if they were in Alberta or BC.
 
Mystic Precision said:
https://www.buffalobore.com/index.php?l=product_list&c=66

Guessing this is what he used?

Note the velocity - Slow. Note the bullet weight and construction - sturdy, and heavy.

Plowed a nice big hole through that moose. Moose tipped over. They didn't show how long it took for the moose to finally expire but it was alive while lying there for a bit.

But it worked and there is no reason to doubt it. For me, it is matching the bullet and impact velocity to the type of wound channel I want.

The cartridge just gets it to the distance I want to be working.

Jerry
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Is anyone in Canada stocking the buffalo bore ammo...?
 
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