My Marlin did just fine yesterday. It leaves a pretty gnarly blood trail..

30/30 is what David actually used to hanker Goliath.

Yep..an moses’s staff didnt just turn into a snake..it turned into a model 94 winchester when he parted the red sea🤠

First cartridge I ever loaded for was 30/30 150 grain Speer bullets and W760 powder. Worked just fine.

My granddaddy— I’m told — called em “saddle guns.”
They’d be laying out a drive. “We’ll put the boys with the saddle guns right over here.”

Well, if any of yall have a marlin 30-30 that is just too sorry a gun to take the life of a deer, i would buy it at a fair price. I been looking for one. Seems a little strange how expensive they are considering they are insufficient for killing deer. Looks like all the mighty hunters would just get shed of them, maybe go buy a 50bmg

I always knew a 30-30 was weak, I kilt a train load
of deer and hogs with a 35 though. My youngest boy still hunts with it primarily.

Course he wears designer handcuffs when he does

A couple years ago I broke my old 336 out and started hunting with it some. Coupled with Hornady Lever Revolution ammo, it's deadly. I killed a few with it this time around and none have went more than 25 yards so far. I've probably killed somewhere between 70 and 90 deer with my A-bolt in 25.06 but I think I may like my old thutty thutty better right now. Not to mention, the gun just feels right in my hand.

Today's deer require a minimum of 300 Winchester magnum shooting solid copper bullets to penetrate their ultra thick hides.

Don't even think about using Ballistic Tips...

I carry either a 30-30 or a 45/70 90% of the time I gun hunt.

My longest shot to date on a deer was with a 30-30 at 548 yards

Thats impressive

3030 aways has been my favorite gun to carry. Who doesn't enjoy 7 shots and a short comfortable gun with cheapest ammo?

If you don't have faith in one, go find a tree a foot thick and shoot at it 50, 75yds Away.

It will blow smooth through it. I was doing that at 12yrs old.

After seeing that, I had to google the ballistics on that... You're talking about an 11ft drop at that distance. How in the world did you make that kind of shot

He didn't say he killed it. He just shot at it...LOL!

I put the rear site elevator on the highest notch then put a penny under it. That's spot on at 5 yards, 11ft high at 250 and dead on at 550

I used my old dads 30.30 for years. I killed some and had a couple of nice one's get away though and finally went to a 30.06. Never had a deer take more than two steps and usually just pile up when shot. One and done. I prefer the 30.06 now.

Even though I have a yard full of does most nights, my chances of seeing a deer in legal shooting light have been practically zero for 15 years. My last .30/30 was the rare 1983 Marlin 336TS with the 18.5” barrel and a straight English stock. A friend of mine wanted it for his collection, so I sold it to him this past summer.

That was the 4th .30/30 I had owned, and all were good deer guns.

You should take up hunting with a self bow. That way you'll see plenty of deer. They will all be out past 30 yards, but you'll see plenty.

Not to be a prick, but I sure hope some of you who said "one/some got away" that you shot with a .30-.30 are just kidding. Because if you're not, that means you absolutely didn't hit a vital organ or artery on the deer you're talking about. Inside of 200 yards, a .30-.30 is all any of you/me need. A 150 grain bullet, even with a marginal shot coming from that gun.....well, they aren't getting away.