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- The .30-30 Winchester (or "thutty-thutty")
- was the first smokeless powder cartridge, and was
- designed specifically for the 1894 Winchester
- rifle, the most long-lived of that series of
- lever-action rifles memorialized in the Hollywood
- western. The .30-30 achieved great popularity as
- a basic, inexpensive deer cartridge.
-
- Because of the strong association with these
- older lever rifles, the .30-30's reputation for
- accuracy has suffered a bit, but when chambered
- in a high-quality bolt-action or single-shot
- rifle, it will hold groups as tight as the best.
-
- The .30-30 Winchester is usually encountered
- with flat-nose bullets, because of the tubular
- magazines of all of the above-noted lever-action
- rifles... a round- or sharp-pointed bullet might
- act as a "firing pin" during recoil for the
- cartridge in front.
-
- The .30 Remington is basically a rimless
- version of the .30-30 Winchester, with virtually
- identical ballistics.
-