I killed my first deer with the marlin 336, and quite a few moreafter. Open sights performance was always good at 100yds.
When gramps passed he left me a model 94, very nice shooter and lighter than the marlin,never did get a deer with it though.
Ever since I aquired my remmy700 in.270 I havn't hunted with the 30-30. I did put a scope on the Marlin last yr.but havn't been able to get her zeroed in .