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Bullcamp82834 04-02-2014 08:56 AM
Originally Posted by buckman11 (Post 4132149)
I know an old boy who has shot 24 elk with a .243. so yes a 30-30 will do just fine
In the hands of a person who can get close and can shoot straight once he gets there.

I completely agree.

Topgun 3006 05-28-2014 03:41 AM
Originally Posted by sona (Post 4132355)
respectively out at 200 yards and with 0 at 100 yards those loads will be slowing down so badly that they will be anywhere from 4.8 to 7.5 inches low at 200 yards. This is with handloads and it would be impossible to buy any factory loads that would replicate close to those levels.
***Don't know where you got those figures, but they are not accurate and at 200 yards the 30-30 still has close to 1000 ft/lbs of energy, which is more than enough to humanely take any deer with a hit in the boiler room!

Muley Hunter 05-28-2014 05:41 AM
Originally Posted by sona (Post 4132355)
respectively out at 200 yards and with 0 at 100 yards those loads will be slowing down so badly that they will be anywhere from 4.8 to 7.5 inches low at 200 yards. This is with handloads and it would be impossible to buy any factory loads that would replicate close to those levels.
Not quite. Hornady 160gr FTX Leverevolution. Lets not use a 100yd zero. Lets use 3" high at 100yds. Well within the kill zone. At 200yds it would still be .020 high. It would also have 1300fpe. More than enough for a bull elk.

Why shoot at 200yds? Be a hunter instead of a shooter, and get closer.

txhunter58 05-28-2014 03:01 PM
Nope there has never ever been an elk killed by a 30-30 rifle

txhunter58 05-28-2014 03:03 PM
30-30 bullets on the other hand have killed too many to count!

Muley Hunter 05-28-2014 03:24 PM
I think it takes both of them to get the job done. :poke:

alleyyooper 05-29-2014 04:26 AM
A 30-30is so worth less it shouldn't even be given to a kid to shoot tin cans with. Probably be disappointed that all the cans would roll away.

:D Al

Blackelk 06-01-2014 05:12 AM
30-30 is so worthless even chipmunks laugh at the guy carrying a Winchester 94 in the woods.

Muley Hunter 06-01-2014 07:34 AM
Chipmunks make good target practice.

finnbear 06-01-2014 04:05 PM
Originally Posted by Muley Hunter (Post 4142195)
Chipmunks make good target practice.
Don't get caught doing that in the state of Washington, they are protected!!!!
:confused:


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