Ep. 327 | The 30-30 Winchester — Is Grandpa Still Right?

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🗓️ 19 February 2024

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Back from the range, Mark Boardman and Ryan Muckenhirn continue their evaluation of the good old 30-30 Winchester. Uniquely original, a first in its class, and potent deer medicine, is this more-than-century old cartridge all (most) deer hunters need? With bullet-extracting tools in hand, they circle the wagons on the gel blocks and pull projectiles for the rest of the story.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Vortex Nation podcast brought to you by lovers of hunting, shooting, public lands, the Second Amendment and good food. What is up everybody? What is up everybody?
0:17.0	Welcome to cartridge talks fully loaded.
0:23.2	This is the 3030.
0:25.2	Is Grandpa's gun still relevant?
0:28.8	Ryan the year was 1894. A little old company by the name of Winchester introduces our first
0:39.4	smokeless commercial cartridge. The 30 W. C. F. often called today the old 30 30 30.
0:49.9	Very cool cartridge. You know one time my uncle shot a deer one-handed with a Winchester
0:58.0	post-64 angle eject and he explained to me as a lad of probably 13, but that's not something that you would normally do.
1:07.0	But it was the only shot he had, so he took the rifle in his hand and he held it, shot it.
1:11.0	It couldn't have been far. No, very close. That's impressive. Yeah. That's
1:15.6	cowboy stuff right there. Uncle Paul's kind of a cowboy. You know you bring up
1:19.6	something Ryan. My uncle shot this year and this is what you hear. Oh man my uncle
1:26.2	shot this year. My grandpa, my great-grandpa. We always hear it's common it's common to hear
1:35.0	People say oh man ain't ain't no other cartridge shot more deer than the 30 30
1:41.0	I don't have the data I don't have the data. I don't have the concrete data in front of me.
1:45.7	I just I disagree. I don't think that's true. I don't think that's possible. The number of
1:51.6	30 WCS on the landscape and again remember
1:56.0	1894 on the number of lever guns like they were very in vogue for a number of reasons they were fast
2:05.1	to reload they were you know not only just stuff in the tube mag for but cycling
2:11.2	through the action reasonably accurate reasonably powerful moderate recoil
2:17.6	should say mild
2:20.7	Affordable attainable guns.
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