Remington Model 30 off the bucket list

Dosing said:
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.
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I'm not sure what would have been mounted there but curiosity got the better of me and I did check those holes out.They are drilled and tapped out to a depth of 0.160" or 4mm for you metric types.The screws were quite tight and it seems to me they were in there for a long time.
 
I found this interesting (Wikipedia) . . .
The Model 30 Express version was available in several configurations - The basic 30A with its 22 inch barrel, was offered in calibers .30-06 Springfield, .25 Rem, .30 Rem, .32 Rem, .35 Rem, 7mm Mauser, .257 Roberts. On these guns, the aperture receiver sight was omitted, and replaced with a more conventional rear sight mounted on the barrel. The rifles were also available in more expensive grades; The Deluxe or "Special" 30S which in 1930 became the Model 30SL, the 30SR with Redfield Optics sight, the 30SX, with a Lyman sight, and the 30SM with Marble-Goss aperture receiver sight. These "Special" models were available with 22 or 24 inches barrel, selected stock, One variation the Model 30R Carbine was introduced in 1927 with a 20 inches barrel, and was available in .25 Rem, .30 Rem, .32 Rem, .35 Rem and 30-06 caliber. The Express 30 family and its variant were manufactured in number of approximatively 22800 units, between 1926 and 1940.

The Blue Book I have references the Redfield sight but neither the Lyman or the Marble-Goss versions of the rifle.
 
Boomer said:
I found this interesting (Wikipedia) . . .
The Model 30 Express version was available in several configurations - The basic 30A with its 22 inch barrel, was offered in calibers .30-06 Springfield, .25 Rem, .30 Rem, .32 Rem, .35 Rem, 7mm Mauser, .257 Roberts. On these guns, the aperture receiver sight was omitted, and replaced with a more conventional rear sight mounted on the barrel. The rifles were also available in more expensive grades; The Deluxe or "Special" 30S which in 1930 became the Model 30SL, the 30SR with Redfield Optics sight, the 30SX, with a Lyman sight, and the 30SM with Marble-Goss aperture receiver sight. These "Special" models were available with 22 or 24 inches barrel, selected stock, One variation the Model 30R Carbine was introduced in 1927 with a 20 inches barrel, and was available in .25 Rem, .30 Rem, .32 Rem, .35 Rem and 30-06 caliber. The Express 30 family and its variant were manufactured in number of approximatively 22800 units, between 1926 and 1940.

The Blue Book I have references the Redfield sight but neither the Lyman or the Marble-Goss versions of the rifle.
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I've found some of the information available on these rifles to be a wee bit confusing at times and some appears to be at cross references to each other on occasion.I'd like to get my hands on some period Remington advertising that may explain things a little better perhaps.
 
H4831 said:
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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Is this rifle still in the family?
 
I forgot about that neat photo of the gun powder feller.............awwwwwsum.

They sure went out of their way to put lots of ziggie-zaggies in the kibbles and bits
when kree-ating these old relics.
 
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. ... URL][/IMG]
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Gotta love the most positive rifle safety ever installed!
 
Smitsauce said:
I have one of the first ~3000 production versions in .30-06 where they used up all the left over parts from WWI! They are great rifles and I really want to find one in my favourite caliber .35 Remington some day!! You can check out the one I have here.

Very nice high grade version you got there!

http://www.canadiangunnutz.com/foru...es-56K-warning!)?highlight=remington+model+30

Cheers,

Ian
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I checked this thread out awhile ago,great photos of your rifle.I bet your ol' gal could tell a few stories that is for sure.The more I read and see about these rifles the more taken I'm becoming with them.
 
Boomer said:
Bruce, I'm a little surprised you haven't posted this in this thread . . .
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I thought about it! But my second thought was, "I wonder where I filed it?" It's in my computer somewhere, but I have a lot of pictures and I'm certainly not known as an organized photo filer!
 
H4831 said:
I thought about it! But my second thought was, "I wonder where I filed it?" It's in my computer somewhere, but I have a lot of pictures and I'm certainly not known as an organized photo filer!
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I know exactly what you mean, I must use the same system. I found the photo in the Nostalgic Hunting Pictures sticky in the Hunting section.
 
Boomer said:
........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........

....... it can still be loaded with clips which is pretty cool for a sporting rifle.......

.....Most teens today are such wusses, although few families even now would have the means to send their sons on such adventures........
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No kidding Boomer... we ain't progressing, we're going backwards. Not enough seem to realize this.

Heck, the cost of kissing the MNR's ass to legally hunt these animals alone make it prohibitive for many. Beyond disgusting.

Yes, wish more modern bolt actions could be fed with clips.
 
Boomer said:
Looki, you make my day.
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Ya gartzs tuh sit beside the gun powder feller in hizz puter rewm and
wartch awl them fotos of his go wizzing by on hizz skreen saver.
Old trucks, old tackters, kid awn a sled being pulled by a dawg, some yung'un werk'in
a trackter..............kripes, even his shadow gits awll tired follow'in'im 'round.

And to think I rang hizz door bell yesterday and he wernt home............. :(
 
kjohn said:
Cool dude! Was this after you abandoned Saskatchewan?
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Yep, 1946, first fall in the new land; few people, green forests and high mountains loaded with big game of many varieties, unbelievably lenient game regulations, plus clear waters full of spectacular game fish.
Too bad we buggered it up!
 
SHELL SHUCKER said:
Beauty Model 30... Fudd City! Townsend Whelen was the 30-06 guy. Elmer liked to work with .33 caliber and up, depending on the game he sought.;)
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Thanks.I don't consider myself a hardcore "Fudd" by any means,at least by what the current definition has become,but I do appreciate the older school guns somewhat more than some of the newer offerings out there.This one is for sure the fuddiest in the pack at the present time but in my defence there are a couple of blackstocks in the safe as well.Can't wait to try her out with my last remaining box of !80 gr.Bronze Points left over from my father-in-law's stash.
 
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