Re: 30-30
You know, up here in MY neck of the woods the Moose and Bear killed with a 30-30 or 32 Special is immense!! With the advent of MilSurp .303 the 30-30 was and still is (to some extend) the MOST used cartridge by NATIVES and white folks alike!
The "Modern" hunter is now using EVERYTHING from .270 to .375!!
WHY????
The "OLD" hunters knew how to sneak up to a Moose and kill it!! While the "Modern" hunter NOW uses ATV, Argo and Cross Country Bikes to locate and come "close"
to the game!!
So, you have to shoot at distances of 200 PLUS!
I have a "Stone Old" Savage BA a Native gave me. He lost the Bolt! I gave him an Israeli (German) Mauser in .308. (Those are the ones with the swastika punched out) I gave him 2 Boxes of MY reloads, and every time he shoots a Moose, I get some steaks. He didn't come back for Amo, since it is ONE shot kills!!
HE is DEFINITELY a better hunter than me and I believe a lot of us!!!!!!
So, I still think the 30-30 in "The Right Hands" is a cartridge NOT to be overlooked!
I know, I know, the lure of bigger and better and more is in all of us non subsistence meat hunters, BUT, People use the tools they have and use them to the best of their ability!
That's MY 0.02 CANADIAN (Now about par...
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