When John Q. Citizen packs the family automobile and heads out for his annual deer hunt, the chances are that the rifle in the back seat, along with the side of bacon and the coffee­pot, is a .30/30.

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The .30/30 is the most used and the most abused of American big-game cartridges — a centre-fire that’s become an all-time ...