Marlin has a new rifle out to take advantage of the new ammo. I believe it has a 24 inch barrel.

I'll never understand why Marlin did this.....why we would give up the only reason to own a 30-30 in the first place. That is to hunt with a short, light, fast repeating deer rifle.

There's several very short light and accurate shooting options available that add at least a hundred yards to the range of the 30-30.

.308, 7-08, 260, 243, and a dozen more. All available in carbines that put first shot placement over fast follow up shots. An option that has bought the bolt action rifle to it's position as King of the hunting rifles.

Good question Vapo. I would guess that there are just a lot of 30-30 and lever action fans out there.

A lot of people knock the 30-30 and think that it is good for nothing but whitetails, but my grandfather took his elk hunting and killed the biggest bull in the group. Everybody was telling him he needed to buy a nre rifle before he went but he said he knew how his shot and was comfortable with it. He shot his bull 200 yards from camp at about 75 yards away. I missed the biggest deer I ever seen in my life because I borrowed a friends gun instead of using my Marlin lever action. The deer was 75 yards away walkig off slowly but when I tried to chamber a round in the gun the gun jammed and by the time I got it unjammed the deer was gone. If I would of taken my rifle it would of been an easy shot.

No elk in Fl,but my longest whitetail shot has been 100 yards.