30-30, the second double digit denoted the powder charge in black powder, suchĪs the. More units than any other centerfire sporting rifle. The legendary Model 1894 Winchester is still being manufactured and has sold Sporting cartridge designed to be used with smokeless powder and its platform, This was my first and all-time favorite Unlimited gun. Pig, where the feet meet the belly of the turkey, and dead center on the ram. The feet of the chicken, and this then allowed me to hold at the feet of the 30-30 for silhouetting, I found it to shoot flatĮnough to allow me to go through all big bore targets at ranges of 50, 100, 150,Īnd 200 meters without ever changing the sights. Chambering it in a T/C Contender changedĪll that. 30-30 has always been thought of as aĬlose range woods hunting cartridge. Through the neck of a mule deer buck with little effect. I recommended this one and he came back complaining because they shot right This is not a hunting load! A friend wanted some silhouette loads, so Spire point over 26.0 grains of IMR4198 for 1,900+ feet per second muzzle 30-30 Super Fourteen using my favorite long range load of Hornady's 150 grain Retired it from silhouetting and set it up for hunting with a Burris pistolĪ lot of silhouette matches were won with the 30-30 was first and it is a gun I would never consider selling. Silhouetting and hunting in every caliber from. 30-30 was the first of manyĬontenders that have been used for the last fifteen years for both long-range That I could cover with the palm of my hand. Iron sights I found I could shoot groups, not at 100 yards, but at 200 meters, Presented me with changed my mind quickly and emphatically and forever. To be handguns, but a few shots with the. Up to this point I did not consider Contenders Took the third alternative, and said let's go shoot it. Lie and go against everything you had ever been taught and believed in? OfĬourse you have or you would not be human. You felt like you either had to tell the truth and hurt someone's feelings or Have you ever been caught in a situation where It was something called a Contender and I could notīelieve she had picked this out as a handgun. Unwrapping the paper from the awaited `sixgun' I did not find a singleĪction sixgun, or even a double action sixgun, or even a 1911 semi-automatic. Presented with my package, I realized that this thing was awfully big to be a 44 SpecialĬhambering, and Flat-top Ruger Blackhawk. & Wesson 1950 Target and a pre-War Colt Single Action, both in. Has, on her own, purchased and presented me with such fine sixguns as a Smith
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