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I use the 150s

Perfect gun for most of Alabama terrain. I use 150 grain

I wish they made the old sliver tips them boys was bad on deer

Like these!!

if the rifle is accurate - as in 1.5" or better at 100 yards - it is a near 200 yard hunting rifle with a nice little scope and good skills. sight in the 150s at 3" high at 100, and it is good to 200 - if you're that good. lever marlins and winchesters need a bit of tuning to achieve that kind of accuracy. otherwise, 100 yard limit ...

Yeah if those are the old one's. Them and the Rem 170gr hollow were rough on deer . The silver tips Winchester started back making I don't know about them . I ain't heard nothing good about them

OK with a 30-30 you shooting deer not flies . You get 3 in group's at 100 you good. You want better than that buy a 308. Lol

They are the old ones. That’s what’s left off the box that I bought when I bought that 30-30 for dad almost 25yrs ago.

My son shot his first and only deer with 150 gr coreloc. About 50 yards and dropped in 20 about yards.

Nice ,

I’ve killed a pile with a 30/30 and fixed 4x scope. 150 or 170’s doesn’t matter, but I have had better pass through results with 170’s. I like Remington core lokts and the federal fusions. The most difficult part about getting a lever gun to shoot accurately is the trigger. The triggers on the old lever guns can be pretty stiff but break cleanly. I use mine for woods hunting.

Ive shot some nice groups with 170s out of a marlin 336 at 200 yd talledega range.
By nice I mean 5 or 6inch groups. Good enough to kill any deer at 200.
You do have to go a bit high on zero. I believe i have mine at 2.5 or 3 inches high at 100.

I never really had a Matlin or winchester that shot bad . Best I remember I had one that shot little
More than 2inch group one time at a 100 . Knowing me at the time I might have had mixed shells in the gun

I’ve always had good luck with 150 grain Winchester power points. My little girl has killed 2 with the Managed recoil Remington 125 grain CLs this year.

Killed a bunch with a Marlin. I once killed a coyote at 225 steps with mine in a big field.

I can hit the metal plate target at 100yds with my Marlin iron sighted. As good as I could ever hope for deer hunting. I'm always sitting in the woods. I rarely have any need to shoot at something over 100 yds.

Only reason I put a scope on mine was because of low light . . I had see thru scope mounts

I've killed 50+ with corelokt 150's. I've lost 2 deer and looking back both was my own fault...

I have a Marlin 336 my parents gave me 45 years ago, can’t remember ever using anything but 150 core lokt and 160 lever revolution.
I can’t remember how many deer my family’s kill with that gun, and me and my grand kids still hunt with it regularly.

I put a 2.5 lb trigger on my Dads Marlin 336 30/30 along with a polish of the action and a limb saver recoil pad. It’s a sweet shooting gun and absolutely slams the deer inside a 100 yds.