Forums.NitroExpress.com

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact NitroExpress.com: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies

*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

You are not logged in. [Login]

Main Index · Search · Active Topics
New user · Who's Online · FAQ · Calendar

Double Rifles, Single Shots & Combinations >> Double Rifles

mickey
.416 member

Reged: 05/01/03
Posts: 4647
Loc: Pend Oreille Valley, Idaho

Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?
17/05/11 01:56 AM

I carried a 30-30 and a driven Boar hunt in the Ardennes about 20 years ago. It was a pre war (WWI) Belgian rifle. I can't remember who made it but it was nice and light and very quick. I thought it was marginal for Boar as it had no knockdown power on the bigger pigs and unless the shot was perfect tracking was involved.

It would have been a nice rifle to use with dogs on Cats and treeing BBears but on a ground Bear I would rather have the lever action and more rounds.

I know that the 30-30 has killed everything in N America dozens of times but so has the .22 Hornet and I would not choose it either for Bears. I grew up with a .32 Special which, is the same round, and have shot Deer, Bears, Coyotes and Steers with it. But that was because it was all we had, not because it was the best option. My Mother killed a pretty big Grizzly with the same rifle but it took her the entire magazine and a pocketful of cartridges to do it.

--------------------
Lovu Zdar
Mick

A Man of Pleasure, Enterprise, Wit and Spirit Rare Books, Big Game Hunting, English Rifles, Fishing, Explosives, Chauvinism, Insensitivity, Public Drunkenness and Sloth, Champion of Lost and Unpopular Causes.

Post Extras

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

Entire topic
Subject	Posted by	Posted on
30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	JusticeTrimble	08/05/11 10:05 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	Dr_Deer	09/05/11 12:57 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	JusticeTrimble	09/05/11 01:27 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	NitroX	09/05/11 09:05 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	DarylS	10/05/11 02:15 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	Kebco	12/05/11 11:34 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	NitroX	14/05/11 03:13 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	DUGABOY1	17/05/11 01:04 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	mickey	17/05/11 01:56 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	Sarg	12/05/11 03:44 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	DarylS	13/05/11 01:45 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	Kebco	14/05/11 12:01 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	DarylS	14/05/11 12:23 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	Kebco	14/05/11 12:49 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	bwanabobftw	14/05/11 07:54 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	Kebco	14/05/11 12:00 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	bwanabobftw	14/05/11 12:16 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	RLI	12/05/11 01:13 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	500Nitro	09/05/11 01:32 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	AkMike	09/05/11 03:02 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	mehulkamdar	08/05/11 02:23 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	500Nitro	08/05/11 02:24 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	rigbymauser	08/05/11 06:32 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	NitroX	08/05/11 07:37 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	CptCurl	08/05/11 09:33 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	CptCurl	08/05/11 09:36 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	szihn	09/05/11 12:56 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	Yochanan	09/05/11 04:59 PM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	DarylS	09/05/11 01:37 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	500Nitro	08/05/11 10:09 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	Ben	08/05/11 10:22 AM
Re: 30-30 vs 303? Which is best?	500Nitro	08/05/11 10:26 AM

Extra information

0 registered and 111 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator: CptCurl

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 15021

Jump to

NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact

Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved