Ron Spomer The 30-30 in a lever-action rifle became an icon of woodland whitetail hunters across North America.In 1935 we entered the “Magnum Sixgun Era” with the arrival of the 357 Magnum however, long before that we had the 45 Colt. Someone ignorant of the concept who found the ammo head-stamped 30-30 could fill a tubular magazine rifle with the rounds and potentially ignite an explosive chain reaction.
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bullets with sharp, hard tips religiously load just one in any tubular magazine. Handloaders who take advantage of high B.C.
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Ron Spomer Yes, the sleek, aerodynamic shape of a modern boat tail spire point can make the 30-30 shoot significantly farther, but it cannot be used with any rounds touching primers in tubular magazines. And handful of 30-30s could solve a lot of problems. Many, if not most, western ranchers employed the 30-30 rifle as rough and ready, do-all tools kept in a horse scabbard or truck rack for whatever need popped up. 30/30, these tricks will definitely extend its effective range. bullets and zeroing them for Maximum Point Blank Range. You might want to consider all this before going to the trouble of seeking higher B.C. A scope, even a small one, compromises this somewhat. Half the fun of hunting with a M94 or M336 is their trim size and easy, flat-sided, one-hand carry. Many rifles over the years have been chambered for the 30-30, even some relatively recent arrivals like this Mossberg 464 stainless. Hunters have been using open-sighted 30-30s like this Winchester M94 to take whitetails for 125 years. Sounds pretty deadly and versatile to me. With our usual center chest hold our bullet is still going to be hitting the upper lungs, possibly the spine (assuming a calm, careful aim and trigger break.) And at every other distance it should land slightly lower until, at 225 yards, it’s falling almost 4 inches, right into the heart. Great Grandpa will be rolling over in his grave. 30/30 is about 40 yards beyond what many consider its maximum range. That puts us dead-on at a wild and crazy 190 yards. 30/30 Round Nose hits 3-inches high at 100. In fact, if we want to really get brave, lets zero so our. In fact, as covered in an earlier on, Jack O’Connor regularly zeroed this way because it keeps bullets within the vital zone while compensating for misjudging range. 30/30 shooter, it’s standard procedure for many 270 Winchester shooters. While zeroing 2.5 inches high at 100 yards might seem radical to a.
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Bullet shape, as much as muzzle velocity, is what limits the 30-30 to relatively short-range performance - unless you use the MPBR sighting system. Not only do modern, sleek, sharply-tipped bullets potentially perform as firing pins when stacked against primers of rounds atop them in tubular rifle magazines, but they protrude into powder space due to their extra length compared to squat, flat-based, flat-nosed 30-30 bullets. Spire points were just coming into fashion when the 30-30 was designed, but Winchester couldn’t have used sharp-tipped bullets at any rate because of the tubular magazine of its M94 rifle. The difference in shape and thus aerodynamic efficiency between a flat nose 150-grain 30-30 bullet and a sharply tipped, 150-grain spire point boat tail designed for other 30 caliber cartridges is obvious when both are side-by-side. The biggest gain is an appreciable 370 ft-lbs more energy from the spire point at 200 yards. bullet shaves a bit more than an inch off the drop at 200 yards, almost 4 inches off the wind deflection. Only the bullet shapes, expressed as B.C., have been changed. How much does a blunt bullet hurt downrange performance? Study these two trajectory tables to see. But that tip is rubber to prevent inertia detonation of primers in cartridges stacked atop it in tubular magazines. Note that only one has a modern, sharply pointed tip for better B.C. Ron SpomerĪ sampling of current factory loads for the 30-30 Win. Today 30-30 Winchester is the official name for this venerable cartridge. A 30-30 by any other name… Over the years the original 30 Winchester Center Fire has been sold as the 30 Winchester, 30 Marlin, 30-30 Smokeless, 30 American, 7.62x51R (in Europe) and probably a few more. Winchester chambered it in its new, strong, Browning-designed Model 94 lever-action rifle released just the year before in 38-55 Winchester and 32-40 Winchester. It was the first smokeless powder sporting cartridge in the U.S.A. It actually began as the 30 Winchester Center Fire way back in 1895. 30/30 does not have to be a 150-yard-max cartridge.īefore we outline these range-extending tricks, it might be fun to explore the history of this famous. But you can make it even more effective if you exercise two tricks that extend its reach. 30/30 may or may not have put more deer on the table than any other cartridge in history, but even if it hasn’t, it remains a darned effective cartridge.