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The reintroduced Marlin 336 Classic, chambered in the eternal .30/30 WCF, continues Ruger’s winning streak with the iconic brand. We had the 336 in the mix during our new rifle test early this year ...

If you walk a decent gun shop or hit SHOT coverage lately, it’s obvious lever guns aren’t some nostalgia... The post Why ...

To paraphrase Mark Twain’s quote, reports of the lever-action’s death are greatly exaggerated. In the last several years we’ve been greeted by a revived Marlin 1895 , a risen-from-the-dead Marlin 336 ...

The first rifle I ever bought after turning 18 was a lever-action rifle chambered in .30-30. That rifle loaded via a side-gate (as almost all do), but ejected out the top making it challenging to ...

The .30/30 may or may not have put more deer on the table than any other cartridge in history, but even if it hasn’t, it remains a darned effective cartridge. But you can make it even more effective ...

There’s something about the .30-30 that keeps it hanging around, no matter how many new cartridges hit the shelves. It doesn’t have the flattest trajectory. It’s not the hottest round on paper. But ...

In North America, .30-caliber is the definitive big game rifle. It always has been, and it probably always will be for whitetailed deer, mule deer, elk, sheep and moose. Other calibers are faster and ...