Introduction: A Gun That Helped Settle the Dust and the Score

Before there were red dots, polymer frames, or tacticool rail systems, there was the click-clack of a lever-action rifle, and in the American wild, that sound usually meant business. Enter the Winchester .30-30, the rifle your granddad probably used to drop whitetails and bad attitudes in the same afternoon. First introduced in 1895, this was the first commercially available rifle chambered in a smokeless powder round, and it quickly became the deer-slaying, brush-busting sweetheart of North America. Advertisement

And let’s be honest, boys and girls, it still is.

A Trip Through Cowboy Country: Where the .30-30 Belongs

I just got back from Angel Fire, New Mexico, this week, which is beautiful high country that still echoes

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