re: .30-30 Winchester. Why so unpopular now?

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Because no one hunts in the woods anymore. Everyone hunts from a box stand because all the damn woods have been cut. There are no more days of hunting out of a rickety ole wooded lean up on a white oak ridge.

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problem with the winchester is putting a scope on it.

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Fewer "woods" and more hunting over lanes and plots, with 200+ yard shots. So many people anymore don't hunt anything but a lane and/or a plot.

I grew up hunting with a Model 94 Trapper, and will likely take it some this year, I've killed a sack full of deer with it. Excellent for hunting from horse.