If you do a search on the top ten most popular deer hunting rifles in the US today you'll get countless results, typically for caliber it's 30-06-270-7rem mag and 243 with the 12guage in there as well in the first eight or nine entries, down near the bottom you'll see the 30-30. They'll mostly be bolt guns-model 70's and 700's with one lever action near the bottom.
I would blame the decrease in lever gun use for deer hunting on an aging population who need to use scopes, lever guns and scopes sort of don't look right together and some are difficult to mount a scope on. Younger hunters are much more inclined to be fixated on accuracy and trajectories, another weak point of lever guns.
I would blame the decrease in lever gun use for deer hunting on an aging population who need to use scopes, lever guns and scopes sort of don't look right together and some are difficult to mount a scope on. Younger hunters are much more inclined to be fixated on accuracy and trajectories, another weak point of lever guns.