RE: My first rifle
you can mount a scope on a winchester 94, just hard to find a good mount. the weaver mount I had first would loosen up real easy so I ended up buying a burris mount which worked good for awhile then i started having problems with it loosening up too. I ended up trading that model 94 off for a marlin 336 which the shell ejects from the side and the top of the reciever is a nice flat surface perfect for mounitng a scope. Ive had the same scope and mount on the rifle now for 10 years and it is still as tight as it was when i first put the scope and mount on it. My suggestion is if you want to mount a scope on a 30-30 deffinately consider a marlin 336.