then buy them up

even a Marin 336 JM marked is running 800+ in good shape now

Simply put, it’s what a rifle looks like. Wood furniture and iron sights. None of our heroes use scopes. Dan Boone, Dave Crockett, John Wayne, Audy Murphy, Ian Nyshens all used the classics. These new plastic guns don’t even have iron sights on them and they look unfinished and ridiculous. They have no life in them and I don’t care to hear their stories. That being said, I understand with age comes poor eyesight and scopes certainly have their place. Lord knows I’ve used them with deadly efficiency. But for my money give me a hunted beat up scratched nicked dented classic rifle with a soul and a name where you can feel the stories and deeds from days gone by. By gosh can ya smell the gun oil now?

Yep

Yep i like my 94Win in 30-30 ... I put peep sights on it though. Its what I am used to. Its such an easy rifle to carry around the woods. I take it along when I walk the dog at times and it has ruined the day of a song dog or two.

I took the gold bead front sight on my dads old marlin 336 and filed it down to a point. It cut my iron sight groups in half at 100.

I like a lever action but have one in 45-70 for those occasions.

If I ever strike it rich, I'm going to buy a Vintage Winchester in that caliber. Maybe a .45-90. Brown bear here I come.

I make my ice fishing “ Sounders “ out of 30-30 brass....I fill the shell up with lead...and quickly shove the alligator clip in ....before the lead gets haahd.

May be mistaken, but I think mod 94 in 30-30 has killed more deer in n. America than any other gun. Still have my old Conadian Centennial 94 open site, and a Marlin 336 w 3x9 weaver.

And for the record Cooper said in print they make a great home/self defense gun due to the fact they make you shoot one shot at a time, no chance to spray and pray. And that works for me. Got bout 5 or 6 old boxes of Rem. Core-Lock.

And yes I still use one, every deer season. Great sport.

I would think less because it has anything to do with stopping spray and pray I have seen a few people think they were Chuck Conner's with a 30-30 and were more about speed than hitting. and more because of familiarity ease of chambering a second round , not heavy recoiling , and ability to hold 6-7 rounds basically what also makes a shotgun good , especially rural people are often very familiar with them , they hold 5-6 rounds they point naturally for us a we grew up with one in our hands and if you can jump shoot a bird flying 20mph with no warning a big old slow person at short yardage is a very quick point and pull compared to a bird. and because so many house holds had them.

Not anymore.

Dad had one chambered in .32 spl.with original buck horn sights,its all he used for 50 yrs. until his eyesight got too bad.Swore by it and was scandalized if somebody badmouthed that round or the 30/30.

Just saw one up here for $1500.

My go to rifle is my Winchester Model 94.

I really like those 150 gr Interlocks in both my Model 94 and 336. It's all you need inside a reasonable range.

I’ve shot just about every deer of my life hunting the spooner Wisconsin area with my hand me down 336. While I have at least a half dozen safe Queen pre 64 30-30 94’s, I much prefer the action of the old marlin 336. Love em!!!

I think in the claim it is any other single cartridge with so many other cartridges out there all the rest are divided

you would have to kill one mountain of deer with a 6.5 creedmoore to reverse 125 years of all the deer shot with a 30-30

if everyone in the USA went to a single catridge it would probably only take a couple decades but I don't see that happening

30-30 ammo still sells and it sells well still a lot of people shooting deer with them

remember 6000 doe tags that quietly get filled with a 30-30 vs one pope and young buck shot with new ultracalliber keeps 30-30 gaining ground

I used to have three or four of them in my collection but they went when I sold 61 guns at once. I still kept a couple of nice guns for myself, one of them being this 1957 model 94 in .30-30 along with this 1953 model 64 deluxe in .32 Spl. I would love to use them for whitetails but I collect all of my venison for the last 20 years in a no firearms zone with my bow. My 75 year old eyesight has a hard time with iron sights now or anything else for that matter.

All I've used for over 50 years, but it wears a peep sight,,
It's not perfect, few things are, but I've taken a small mountain of deer with it....

Not here but does an iron sighted Model 95 30-06 count?