Fudd Friday: Why You Should Buy A .30-30

The .30-30 Winchester cartridge has been around for over 100 years.

Introduced in 1895, it has filled freezers full of venison since that time. It has also been updated many times since then. Today's .30-30 is not your great-great-granddad's cartridge.

Zac K wrote in TheFirearmsBlog why you should buy a .30-30.

The article begins with:

When I recently wrote an article about the demise of three classic hunting cartridges (the .257 Roberts, the .22 Hornet and the .300 Savage), one commenter said:

“Let’s finally put an end to an over-rated cartridge that has effectively been surpassed by a virtual plethora of better cartridges. Some lever-action rifle makers still chamber this old dog for some puzzling reason when there are so many new & better cartridges that make lever-guns incredibly better. Let’s blow taps on this ancient obsolete cartridge, and throw a last handful of dirt on the grave of the 30-30. RIP.”

I couldn’t disagree more. The .30-30 is better than ever, and I intend to buy another rifle, or rifles, to shoot it. Here’s why, and here’s why you should do the same.

To read more, go here.