My 30-30 shoots quite a bit flatter than my .50 cal. inline. The energy in the first 100-150 yards is close but beyond that there is no comparison.
MLKeith,
I took a quick look at the ballistics, take a look at the two links, we are both close enough to be right, my point was that inlines are real close to 30-30's. BTW, the Remington site has the 30-30 zero's @ 150 yards and the PRbullet site has them zero'd @ 100 yards, if the 30-30 was zeroed @ 100 the drop would be considerably more. I really like the 30-30 but consider it some sort of sin to scope a levergun..LOL
http://www.remington.com/products/ammunition/ballistics/comparative_ballistics_results.aspx?data=R30302
http://www.prbullet.com/drop.htm
Doug