Nothing wrong with your 30-30 bud! Far more accurate than a slug gun for sure. It' s not a field shooter, but back in the woods it will hold up it' s end as long as you hol up yours. I also would go with a nice low magnification variable as previously mentioned. Something in the 1.5-4 or 1.5-6 range will be awesome on that gun. Buy good scope mounts too and don' t get those crappy see shoot through mounts that seem to be popular on 30-30' s. With low magnification, you don' t need the iron sights anyway, and the see through mounts raise the scope too high for comfortable shooting...Jim