Tri County Firearms
135 So. Main St.
Petersburg, WV 26847
Please do watch the video here: http://www.leger.net/kmstg/v3.mp4
The rifle is a
"Winchester Model 94," sometimes called "1894." Winchester still makes them:
https://www.winchesterguns.com/products/rifles/model-94/model-94-current-products/model-94-carbine.html
Its serial number is
3217151 which dates it to 1968, contrary to what I said/thought.
Still, it's in exceptional condition. See pg. 9 of
https://www.winchesterguns.com/content/dam/winchester-repeating-arms/support/faq/serial-number-reference/Winchester-Manufacture-Dates-by-Year-2012-Scanned-Documents.pdf
Caliber is ".30-30 Winchester." Other names for the same caliber are ".30 WCF" and ".30 Winchester Center Fire"
...all mean the same thing. At the shop, just whether they have "any thirty-thirty?" 150 or 170 grain are fine. I prefer the 150 for the slightly flatter trajectory. Winchester "Super-X" and Remington "Core-Lokt" are best.
Re: trajectory, ballistics, etc...
The ammunition I'm sending is this: https://winchester.com/Products/Ammunition/Rifle/Super-X/X30306
In the video, I talked a bit about relative power of the .30-30 vs the .45 Auto. A typical .45 cartridge fires a 230 gr. bullet at 835 feet-per-second, for 336 ft-lbs at the target. The .45 has always been celebrated as a hard-hitting, "man-stopping" round.
For the 150 gr. Super-X rounds I'm sending, velocity is 2390 fps, energy is 1902 ft-lbs.
The .30-30 hits waaaaaay harder. Like 5 times harder. You are definitely not under-gunned with your 94.
RANGE (YD) |
DROP (IN) |
VELOCITY (FPS) |
ENERGY (FT-LB) |
|---|---|---|---|
0 |
-0.8 |
2390 |
1902 |
50 |
+1.4 |
2198 |
1610 |
100 |
+1.8 |
2017 |
1355 |
150 |
0.0 |
1845 |
1133 |
200 |
-4.4 |
1684 |
945 |
250 |
-11.8 |
1534 |
784 |
300 |
-23.0 |
1398 |
651 |
In the above table, where the rifle is "zeroed" at 150 yards, you will be slightly less than 2" high at 100 yards, right on target at 150 yards, and 4.4 inches low at 200 yards. Very usable; at two hundred yards, a shot aimed at the heart will hit the liver. He won't crawl far, and he'll be just as dead by the time you cover the 200 yards to get to him. At staircase distances, the trajectory doesn't matter. You'll just create deep, ragged, hemorrhaging cavities wherever you hit.
Here's a timely
Halloween video:
https://youtu.be/B8-L3PMtID0?t=84
More vegetables:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lMhpEFaTCFc&feature=youtu.be&t=446
Here's a guy
punching holes in quarter-inch steel plate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pbCR1ywVlrY&feature=youtu.be&t=108
This guy is in WV, I
think:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJnisSrfdDo