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Originally posted by stam62:
Not. they actually beat winchester to the punch with the smokeless modern .30-30 in 1894, there are a lot of tougher cartridges out there now, but none cooler....I probably like those old guns for the same reasons I hunted with longbows and recurves.

okay....maybe an old singleshot rolling block hepburn in .45-70 or .45-90 is cooler, but I just don't have one of those.
Oh, I was thinking the current 1894s. I haven't seen any of the older ones. I've always liked the 1895 in the rifle version.