I've been wanting to get back to Deer hunting the old fashioned way...stalking with a 30-30. I like the long-barreled rifles, and just bought this rifle for the season. It's a limited edition Winchester 94. Should be fun!

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just bought this rifle for the season.

I wish I was in the rich boy league to buy a rifle "for the season." The occupy crowd will begin protesting you--the upper one percent!
Cal

Cal, it was $790....not $20K like one of your old 2-pipers :-)

Now you need to drill and tap it for a 4-16 power scope with built in range finder. That's what most guys want me to do with their lever actions.

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Now you need to drill and tap it for a 4-16 power scope with built in range finder.

Not this one. Lyman receiver sight and I'm ready to hunt :-)

I started hunting deer with iron sighted 336s and 99s. Still have the rifles, just wish I still had the eyesight to hunt with them.

Dad bought me a Marlin 336 for my 16th birthday. It was my first gun. I've had it for almost 30 years and still haven't killed a deer with it.

Nice looking gun, good luck this season.

now all you need is to have somebody convert it to belt fed

Already got one of them :-)

I'm with you on that Biebs..I rediscovered hunting about 15 years ago..I started using the old guns and hunting like I did when I was a kid on the ranch.. I now hunt almost every year with one of my Win. 94 SRC's, I have three, two in 30-30 and one in 25-35. mostly I use my old 25-35 Win. carbine..I still like to loaf around under the rimrocks taking my time, and hoping for a close jump shot, or perhaps tossing rocks off the rim hoping to push out a monster Muley.

Slipping thru the Texas brush where evey limb, bush, and tree has teeth tearing at your clothes, cussing the hot weather, and sweating like a pig looking for one of those elusive and big Texas Whitetail, and it beats sitting in a blind anyday..Last year my timeing was the best, it got colder n hell and this old Idaho boy was in his cups for sure, the deer were out and plentiful. Wonderful hunt. Had my 25-35 and my 250-3000 Savage. Your right there is more to hunting than shooting a deer, even a 30 inch buck. Its the memories of the hunt that count.

My 30-30 had to have a scope. I'm practicing but still not quite comfortable enough with a peep sight to use it on game. It wears a vari x II in 1 x 4 power. I mostly use it on 1 1/2 to 2 1/2 power. It makes a very quick sight picture. DW

Yes, I'm of "scope age" too, but want to hunt traditional with this one.

Biebs, they are very nice little rifles, made in USA, and some of the best of the last Winchester 94s, even though it is a couple of decades old. I had one but sold it because the only way I could mount a peep sight on it would have been on the receiver side and would have covered and marred the engraving. Reflecting back, I should have done it anyway. A good 94 with a peep sight is surprisingly accurate, especially with a 26" barrel.

At the ranges incurred in woods stalking, it'll have more then enough range with iron sights. The engraving definitely comes 2nd in priority :-)

Who says age doesn't bring wisdom ? Even to late bloomers. Looks like a grand idea to me as well.

Phil, I may be ,mistaken, buy I think that was a "shot". :-)

Jon, why would you think that ? Just because you made a good decision ?

Now I need one of Doug's 1886 475 Turnbulls to come up for a big Coastal Brownie :-)

We will sell the same rifle, for 750Euro....

You will have a lot of fun hunting that way. 15+ years ago I had the same idea and bought a Model 71 standard rifle in very nice shape...I killed a deer every time I went to the woods with that rifle...although I wasn't too picky and it was in the years of excess antlerless permits. Did make a dandy shot on a buck hauling through the hardwoods broadside that I'll never forget though.

Jon, your rifle is a doozy. If Pacific Tool will ever finish my reamer, I'll have a waffle-top Marlin in similar configuration, chambered to Francis Sell's .25-35 Tomcat, and a Lyman or Marble's peep on the rear end.
A guy just plain feels good in the woods with an iron-sighted lever gun.

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A guy just plain feels good in the woods with an iron-sighted lever gun.

Yes, it brings back the joy of the hunt, without any concern for a "trophy". Woods hunting on a drizzly day is a special kind of peace :-)

I'm of scope only age, but with a fiber optic front and a Williams "fool proof" rear I am fairly deadly at woods hunting range.

What? Wait.

When did Blaser acquire Winchester?

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What? Wait.

When did Blaser acquire Winchester?

I have strayed from the flock :-)

Everywhere I go an old Win. 94 SRC in 30-30 or 25-35 rides in my trucks floorboard, no blue, solid old custom drift wood stocks! but they both shoot under 2 inches at 100 with irons and my granddads old 30-30 will shoot an inch for 3 shots day in and day out, won a lot of turkeys and nay sayers money with that old smoke pole..

Never believe that written BS that a Win 94 wont shoot, those that say nay just shot the wrong one, find one that will and keep it. Doubters bring your money and lets gamble!

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Now you need to drill and tap it for a 4-16 power scope with built in range finder.

Not this one. Lyman receiver sight and I'm ready to hunt :-)

Try and find an older all steel Lyman or Redfield.They are head and shoulders better than the aluminum ones.OB

Copy that...thanks.

Nice, Biebs!

Thanks! I've added a few since I posted this...a Browning 1886, a Marlin Cowboy 45-70, and a Browning Model 71 High Grade Carbine. They're addicting :-)

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Thanks! I've added a few since I posted this...a Browning 1886, a Marlin Cowboy 45-70, and a Browning Model 71 High Grade Carbine. They're addicting :-)

Yes they are. I been on the look out for a good deal on a 1895 in 30-06 and a Marlin 1895 in 44 mag or 45 Colt.

There is one virtue that has only been touched that I would like to expand on concerning using a 30-30 or similar lever gun. There is something about the lack of weight, the balance carrying with no sling used, just the "feel" in the hand that makes you feel good. I took the little scope off my Marlin 44 mag, it has a Skinner rear sight on i tnow and it just feels good to carry.

Yes, nice to hunt with an open-sighted rifle...increases the challenge and puts more "hunt" in the hunting :-)

I wear bifocals and have no problem with irons, grew up shooting irons..Jack Belk has a 12 inch white rock at a measured 400 yards from his entrance way to his front room..I stop get out and shoot at that rock off hand every time I visit him..I hear him yell "quit busting my rock"

He is my witness!! Some say it can't be done but we both hit almost every time and if we miss its close enough for guvment work! Some folks just read more than they shoot I fear.

Biebs

I have taken 2 deer with an iron sighted Winchester Mod 94 Trapper in 30/30.

Also I have taken several deer and several pigs as well as a few turkeys and 3 coyotes with my HEYM 26B O/U, in 30/30. This has become one of my most favorite hunting rifles. Out to 200 yards or so I have found that the 30/30 kills them as good as anything.

Yup, easy to shoot, cheap and available ammunition, and enough for most stuff we hunt.

I guess I'm part of a new trend. For the past few years I've been carrying one of my .30-30's or my .45-70 for deer and black bear. Interesting how I tend to look at things differently. Instead of concentrating on what's far away to find a place to watch, I tend to move slower and pick apart my surroundings looking for a close shot. I'm also a longtime bow hunter so it feels much the same.


To shamelessly borrow someone elses line perhaps it should also be:

“Anyone who claims the 30-06 .30-30 is ineffective has either not tried one, or is unwittingly commenting on their own marksmanship”

What are your thoughts on a lead, 250 gr FN bullet at about 1500 fps for moose out to 100 yds?

Brent, it's about half as good as a 500gr hard-cast FP at 1,950 fps :-)

Or a 550gr Garrett Hammerhead at 1,150!