I Tested 8 Popular .30-30 Loads — Only 3 Are Worth Buying

📖 The Gun You Think You Know: https://wendellcoffey.com/ Eight boxes of .30-30 went through my father's 1951 Winchester this week. Five of them I won't buy again. Every one of these will kill a deer if the man does his part. The box matters on the shot that goes wrong, and every man gets one sooner or later. So I ranked them by what stands behind each box: a catalog sentence, a price tag, a promise, or thirty years of notebooks. I wrote price tags behind a gun counter for seven years and followed blood trails as a wildlife officer for thirty more. Nobody sent me these boxes. I bought them in town on a Wednesday. Two of the loads on this bench come out of the same company now. One of the three I'd buy is a load I wouldn't have touched before 2015. If your daddy carried a .30-30, tell me what he kept in the tube, and where that rifle is now. 📖 The Gun You Think You Know: zeroing in three shots, reading the hit, trailing when the blood stops, and the one thing about a broadside deer that covers the front of the vitals