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  1. Al Smith

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    If I'm not mistaken they are the same 30 caliber but one is measured land to land while the other is land to groove .Of course the shell or casing is different . 308 isn't bad to shoot .300 mag will come back on you a tad bit ,kicks like a mule .
  2. Al Smith

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    Skewing off as usual .An old trick by some of the forward recon was to find a mess of 7.62 AK 47 rounds and pour the powder out and pack them full of C4 and toss them down on the ground .A couple days later pop-pop- pop- kerbang .That C4 would blow the Ak's up like a bomb .--well time bomb...
  3. Al Smith

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    Well on that the only "tactical " weapons I ever fired were the M1 Garand,Browning automatic rifle and Thomson sub machine gun when I was in the service .They're relics now too . They probabley considered the 1903 Springfield ,.303 Lee enfield ,M 1917 Eddystone ( aka American enfield ) and...
  4. Al Smith

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    Well it's not a weapon of war and never was intended as one . What it is is a later version of the earlier Winchester lever action which I think was first introduced in 1863 . The very mention of a 30/30 stateside pretty much means "deer rifle " in addition to the most popular model which the...
  5. Al Smith

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    A 45-70 was an old black powder gun that lobs a round with the arc of a morter .They used these damned old cannons on buffalos then shot at each other with them .405 grain bullet to boot ,Lawdy . The first one I ever saw was in the Colorado mountains .I thought the guy was carrying a 410...
  6. Al Smith

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    I'm thinking at one time the US military had some version of a lever action in 30:06 but the design didn't prove out . The largest caliber lever action I ever saw which I did shoot was a .348 .They say it was an old bear gun . The model '94 in 30/30 has probabley taken more deer than any rifle...
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