When John Q. Citizen packs the family automobile and heads out for his annual deer hunt, the chances are that the rifle in the back seat, along with the side of bacon and the coffee­pot, is a .30/30.

It was a Monday morning in mid-November and my plan was to sneak in a quick hunt before work. I’d been watching a ten-pointer since late summer when he made his first midnight appearance on one of my ...

As America’s first smokeless cartridge, introduced 1895, the old .30-30 is not just old—it’s the oldest, as modern American cartridges go. And yet it remains as effective as ever. In fact, with ...