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Tuesday, August 18, 2026

The .30-30 Nobody Wants (But Outkills Everything in the Timber)

The .30-30 Nobody Wants (But Outkills Everything in the Timber) video by Jacob Miller.

Summary:

Frost on the rail.

Forty yards of timber.

A buck steps out of the laurel, and the rifle in your hands is a .30-30 that nearly every modern ballistic chart says has been obsolete for decades.

The charts aren't wrong.

The .30-30 drops harder, carries less energy, and gives up long-range performance to cartridges like the .30-06 and 6.5 Creedmoor.

But a South Carolina wildlife biologist recorded 603 shots at 493 deer, and his results suggest we've spent a century measuring the wrong thing.

 

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