Video: Vortex Nation The 30-30 Winchester — Is Grandpa’s Gun Still Relevant?

I've gone away from the hard kickers and have been shooting a single shot 30/30 as of late. I do plan on adding a lever gun soon. The last two deer I've taken were with Remington 170 gr Core Lokt. One at 30 yards and one at 135 yards. Neither took a step, I'd call it still relevant.
 
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rdinatal said:
Explain, please.
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Asking if Grandpa's gun is still relevant is rhetorical. We all know it is, as gun enthusiasts.

That type of video and content is hollow and shallow at the same time. I'm not faulting the OP for sharing it, just the maker of the video and content.

Even great, great Grandpa's gun is still relevant, maybe not for it's present day functionality but for its historical purposes.
 
rdinatal said:
Explain, please.
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These videos. Is XYZ still relevant? Will a J-frame kill at 10000 yards? red dots are trash! red dots are amazing! this will end glock/sig/whatever! it's just nonsense and we shouldn't be feeding them clicks and maybe then they'll stop making the content.
 
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Jayne said:
These videos. Is XYZ still relevant? Will a J-frame kill at 10000 yards? red dots are trash! red dots are amazing! this will end glock/sig/whatever! it's just nonsense and we shouldn't be feeding them clicks and maybe then they'll stop making the content.
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And I bet your the one guy that has never clicked on any clickbait, right ??
 
RR said:
I recently paid a smith to chop and thread an H&R single shot .30-30. it has my vote.
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That's what I shoot but it's not threaded. I've seen quite a few of these in 30/30 and all shot great. Have you tried pointed bullets in yours. I've found 125 gr Nosler Ballistic Tips are perfect for deer at 30/30 speeds.
 
45/70fan said:
That's what I shoot but it's not threaded. I've seen quite a few of these in 30/30 and all shot great. Have you tried pointed bullets in yours. I've found 125 gr Nosler Ballistic Tips are perfect for deer at 30/30 speeds.
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I haven't yet, but my intent is to load 110 gr. Barnes Tac TX bullets. Essentially replicating my favorite .300 BLK load. Just haven't found the time to do the load development.
 
Jayne said:
These videos. Is XYZ still relevant? Will a J-frame kill at 10000 yards? red dots are trash! red dots are amazing! this will end glock/sig/whatever! it's just nonsense and we shouldn't be feeding them clicks and maybe then they'll stop making the content.
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Thanks.

So, are you're saying the OP is click bait and not needed as it 'seems' it is not based upon any knowledge but just controversy?

If so then agreed.
 
Jayne said:
These videos. Is XYZ still relevant? Will a J-frame kill at 10000 yards? red dots are trash! red dots are amazing! this will end glock/sig/whatever! it's just nonsense and we shouldn't be feeding them clicks and maybe then they'll stop making the content.
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Meh. We congregate on a firearm oriented web page. Similar topics have been beat to death here…is it really that much of a stretch ?
 
DirtySCREW said:
Love my Marlin 30-30!
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So do I, but the Henry X is a more traditional looking modernized version of the lever gun. The Marlin dark series 336 that’s coming out is just too over the top for me. I want the threaded barrel and a stock/finish that can get wet with no issues and I can deal with the MLok rail but that skeletonized stock is just too much
 
RR said:
I recently paid a smith to chop and thread an H&R single shot .30-30. it has my vote.
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You mind saying where you had the work done? Got one in 308 that I’ve been wanting to do the same.
 
brud720 said:
Guarantee a 30-30 has out killed more deer in North America than the next caliber 2-1
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It is very strange people make that statement. The 30-30 was a reasonable unremarkable caliber during its time i.e. 1895-1906 but that time passed quickly and there were far better options out there by 1906. I would argue the universally more adopted 30/06 that came around just a few years later i.e. 1906 has stacked far more carcasses since it was used in military rifles with surplus ammo and its not even close. I appreciate the 30-30 for what it is but it is definitely not the deer stacking firearm some make it out to be. I file statements like "Guarantee a 30-30 has out killed more deer in North America than the next caliber 2-1" under the same category as the ever present "I shoot a 45 because they don't make a 46". I will not be ditching my marlin lever action rifles because they went out of style over 100 years ago, But I also will proclaim that famous gun shop fudd nonsense of "Guarantee a 30-30 has out killed more deer in North America than the next caliber 2-1"
 
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Walkabout Dan said:
Most big game animals taken by all calibers in America could have been taken with the 30/30 .
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Because they can doesn't mean they should or its even close the the proper tool for the job. Most big game animals in the world can be taken by 22lr but it doesn't make it right.
 
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I didn’t click on the link. I know a 30-30 is still a fine pig and deer round. Honestly it doesn’t take much to harvest a deer ethically. But young and non gun junkies don’t know this. Mag this or that is touted in the magazines and videos. Honestly most people can’t shoot to two hundred yards or beyond. I have seen many that shouldn’t shoot to 100. For them it is a more than adequate choice.
 
Tug McClutchin said:
Because they can doesn't mean they should or its even close the the proper tool for the job. Most big game animals in the world can be taken by 22lr but it doesn't make it right.
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A gut shot elk by a 338 WM dies the same death as a gut shot elk with a 30/30. Skill makes the difference and gun cannot make up the difference.
 
I've had my 94, 30-30 for over 30 years now. Never hunted with it, choose the 30-06 instead. But, it's not going anywhere. I still love shooting it and probably will till I get so old I can't pick it up anymore.
I very seldom click on this type of video. Useless.
 
I convinced my nephew to pick up a 30-30 lever gun for deer hunting 4-5 years ago and he absolutely fell in love with the cartridge, so much so that he had his son, daughter and wife all take their first deer with his first Marlin 30-30, the one he rescued and had restored after he took his first deer with it, he has since picked up various brands of 30-30s at estate sales & pawn shops ans then let everyone in the family choose which gun they wanted as their own (of course he son chose “dads” Marlin lol), but he went from overlooking the cartridge to absolutely falling in love with it in a single deer season, so like others have mentioned already, a light & compact lever gun in 30-30 is very, very hard to beat for medium game inside of 200 yards and based on my nephew’s experience, it’ll be around much longer than all of us.
 
My wife killed her first deer with her first rifle the first day of her first hunt with her first shot. The deer dropped in it's tracks. Pawnshop find Winchester 94, 30-30 made in 1965.
So, If anyone needs to know if the 30-30 is still "Relevant"? OR, "Needs" any tips on how "it's done"? Just Ask her.
""But, I'm pretty sure shes gonna tell you "If you can't do it with a 30-30 just maybe ""You"' are the not so relevant."
 
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