I wouldn't go that far...but I am glad it isn't. Wee bullets with a lot of powder are horribly inefficient...OTOH the .30-30 gets the job done with a lot less.So, at 200, the 30-30 is a virtual lazer!
The 30-30 was the first small bore centerfire round to use smokeless powder. History tells us some guy named Teddy Roosevelt was an avid hunter and owned one of the first 30-30's to come out of the factory.
Teddy use the "thutty thutty" to down an Antelope buck at 220 yards with a 160 grain bullet.
In the fall of 1896 I spent a fortnight on the range with the ranch wagon. I was using for the first time one of the then new small-caliber, smokeless-powder rifles, a .30-30-160 Winchester. I had a half-jacketed bullet, the butt being cased in hard metal, while the nose was of pure lead."
"They were starting as I raised my rifle, but the trajectory is very flat with the small-bore smokeless-powder weapons, and taking a coarse front sight I fired at a young buck which stood broadside to me. There was no smoke, and as the band raced away I saw him sag backward, the ball having broken his hip."
"As we stood over him, Joe shook his head, and said, 'I guess that little .30-30 is the ace' and I told him I guess so too
Also, I think that story is a little out of context. When the 30-30 was introduced, it was a very flat shooting cartridge, it was the magnum of its time. With other rounds out there, .
I see, is there a reason that they don't use the old crimped side dummy rounds or are those a relic of the past?Maverick, it's just a dummy .223 that's used to stimulate failures (failure to fire) in a magazine in a live fire exercise.
Never shot 30-30... For the price of it at WallyWorld I wish I did!