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    Quote Originally Posted by Eaglelord17 View Post
    #4 is a major issue. Depending on the magazine design making it work would either require significant modification (well outside the skill set of most modern 'gunsmiths'), or possibly a brand new magazine fitted to the rifle. Lee Enfields and Mosin Nagants magazines are both designed from the ground up for a rimmed cartridge, its much harder to make a rimless design work with a rimmed round. If its single stacked there likely isn't enough room, and if it is double stacked you would have to do a ton of work just to get a couple rounds into it (capacity would likely be greatly reduced).

    My recommendation if you really want a .30-30 bolt action is to find one of the 1889 Swissicon sporters that are kicking around in .30-30 (tend to be pretty cheap too). Not saying what you want isn't possible, but the cost to actually do it would likely be significantly more than buying a gun made that way would be.
    well if you got some links to them ide be happy

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    30-30 would be my ideal. I love the cartridge and it has never failed me. I just have no further interest in hunting or target shooting with a lever action. arm and hand injuries make it annoying as hell for me.

    I would be content or happy with military rifles in cartridges that had the same recoil/hunting power as the 30-30, but those not so easy to find.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pocketshaver View Post
    military rifles in cartridges that had the same recoil/hunting power as the 30-30,
    I often toyed with the idea of converting a #1 or #4 rifle into 30-30... A .30 cal barrel and some machining. That would make brass easy to get and recoil down as you say.
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    You can also manage recoil by downloading appropriately.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daan Kemp View Post
    manage recoil by downloading
    Our problem here is brass availability and longevity. But that's off this track, it was just a project I was looking at...
    Regards, Jim

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    Quote Originally Posted by Daan Kemp View Post
    You can also manage recoil by downloading appropriately.

    i got lots of choices on what to use, but id like the 30-30 because it works as is, straight from the factory. I don't think I have ever seen any other cartridge perform as well as the Winchester super x 150 grain jhp 30-30 load. except perhaps a headshot on a deer with a 223.

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    Quote Originally Posted by pocketshaver View Post
    i got lots of choices on what to use, but id like the 30-30 because it works as is, straight from the factory. I don't think I have ever seen any other cartridge perform as well as the Winchester super x 150 grain jhp 30-30 load. except perhaps a headshot on a deer with a 223.
    I imagine that statement has started many a heated argument around the deer camp....��
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    Quote Originally Posted by vintage hunter View Post
    I imagine that statement has started many a heated argument around the deer camp....��
    ive had lung shot deer with 100 grain jsp .243 win run 300 yards. and when recovered the lungs were simply best described as pudding.

    ive had a lung shot deer with a .308 that ran 500 yards, that when recovered, the lungs were not found inside the animal.

    ive had far to many deer shot with that 30-30 load at the same and longer distances, simply FALL DOWN and not move again. when hit through the lungs.

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