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Ian said:
I can't fathom this don't have a .30-30 thing. That's like not owning a claw hammer!
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A 30-30 was the first center fire rifle that I ever shot. It belonged to my neighbor when I was nine. It was a single-shot break action.
My parents had divorced, and my dad was building a cabin on a few acres he had bought in the hills above Aromas, Ca. We were sleeping in a 16 foot trailer, so I was outside all the time.
Our neighbor was a scary looking ex-convict biker, who worked as an auto mechanic. Red had a long beard, tattoos of naked ladies on his forearm, and there was always a layer of black crud under his nails. Somehow he and I became “over the fence friends“. I had a BB gun, a boy’s axe, and a buck knife. I spent most of my time in a grove of eucalyptus trees that bordered his property. He would be drinking a beer and we would have these chats about how my stick fort was coming along.
So one day Red helped my dad move some lumber or something. When they were done they both came out to my eucalyptus grove and told me to come along because they had a surprise for me.
Red took some of those quart Miller High Life bottle that he was always drinking and hung them on a tree. From about twenty paces away he sat down on the ground and I sat on his lap and I shot one of those bottles. I think that I shot it about three times and then I was done.
I think that it was a Savage 219. I would definitely pick one up if I had one cross my path.
30-30 is way too much fun! You are going to love that rifle. Lots of good molds and powders to choose from. I really like the NOE Ranch Dog 165gr RNFP It feeds really well in my 94 and my Savage 340 bolt gun. Too many powders to list that work well.
I already have a bunch of the RD RNFP 165gr bullets cast and ready to go. And, three pounds of this stuff that I’m gonna try out. A full case lightly compressed.
Josh