10 Truths About .30-30 Ammo Most Owners Never Know

10 Truths About .30-30 Ammo Most Owners Never Know THE BENCH BOOK + 2 TOOLS → https://dylanbenett.com A man named Ray Dillard missed the biggest buck of his life three times in a row last November, with a rifle that had never missed for him in forty years. He is sixty-seven. The rifle is a Winchester ninety-four in thirty-thirty, open sights, the stock worn smooth where his cheek goes. He has taken a deer with it almost every season since he was a young man. This buck stepped out along the far edge of a cut cornfield just before dark. Ray settled the front bead on its shoulder, the way he had a hundred times, and fired. Nothing. He worked the lever and fired again. Nothing. A third time. The buck looked up, turned, and walked into the timber like Ray was not even there. He did not sleep that night. His hunting partner told him what he figured had happened. That barrel is shot out, he said. Forty years of cleaning it wrong. A couple of days later, Ray took the rifle to a sporting goods store, and the man there agreed. Old rifle, worn barrel, iron sights nobody uses anymore. He offered Ray two hundred dollars in trade toward a new bolt action rifle with a scope. I asked Ray two questions. Where had he sighted the rifle in, and how far away was that buck, really? He said he sighted it in years ago, on a paper plate, at the edge of his yard. And the buck? A hundred and fifty yards, maybe. The far side of the field. I will tell you exactly what we found when we measured that field, and why the rifle was not the problem. That is number one on this list. And somewhere in the middle of this video there is a revolution, a song, and a cartridge that made history on the wrong side of the border. Stay for that one too. We are going through ten things about thirty-thirty ammunition that most people who own it have never been told. It is one of the most famous deer cartridges ever made, it has been in production for more than a hundred and thirty years, and almost everybody who shoots it thinks they already know it.