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Why hunters keep coming back to the .30-30

There’s something about the .30-30 that keeps it hanging around, no matter how many new cartridges hit the shelves.... The ...
This story was originally published in the April 1953 issue of Outdoor Life. The .30/30 is the most used and the most abused of American big-game cartridges — a centre-fire that’s become an all-time ...
The 30-30 became available in 1895 in Winchester’s Model 1894 lever-action rifle. It was America’s first sporting cartridge to be loaded with smokeless powder, and it was originally loaded with a ...
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As America’s first smokeless cartridge, introduced 1895, the old .30-30 is not just old—it’s the oldest, as modern American cartridges go. And yet it remains as effective as ever. In fact, with ...