The .30-30 Winchester cartridge is an old cartridge. It was first introduced in 1895 for the Winchester 1894 (or Winchester 94). It was the first smokeless cartridge.
Below is the beginning of an article first published in 1953 in Outdoor Life, which is an interesting read. It was posted yesterday in Yahoo! Life.
It begins with:
This story was originally published in the April 1953 issue of Outdoor Life.
The .30/30 is the most used and the most abused of American big-game cartridges — a centre-fire that’s become an all-time best-seller, like Fanny Farmer’s cookbook. It made its bow almost 60 years ago — in 1895, to be exact — in the Winchester Model 94 rifle. It created a revolution in big-game cartridges compared to which the introduction of such sensational modern jobs as the .270 Winchester and the .220 Swift were but tempests in teapots.
The .30/30 was the first American smokeless-powder cartridge developed solely for big game. It made its appearance at a time when the big old black-powder cartridges were at the peak of their evolution. It vanquished them as speedily as a P-85 jet fighter would destroy a Spad of World War I. It was the father of a whole line of medium-power, medium-range cartridges known as “cartridges of the .30/30 class,” but whereas most of the others are dead and dying, the good old thuttythutty is still going strong.
By 1914 over 700,000 Winchester Model 94 rifles, mostly in .30/30, had been sold, and by 1927 the millionth such rifle was prettied up and presented to President Calvin Coolidge. President Harry S. Truman got No. 1,500,000 in 1948. That’s a whale of a lot of hunting rifles!
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