Like Briman says, you can put a side mount on there, my buddy has one they look a little strange, hey whatever works.. More importlanly dont use and ammo that is pointed, most 30-30 ammo is rounded and that is because your next shell is pushing against the primer of the one ahead of it so if you had a pointed round and it hit a hard jolt it could fire in the storage area.If you use round ed bullets this is not supposed to happen. BTW I have a 94 and a 336 Marlin in 30-30 and they are o.k. to deer hunt with...