My question for you - I see you are in NYC (ditto here). Where do you intend to hunt? The southern and western zones of NY State are "shotgun" counties, EXCEPT for the Catskill State Park area, where rifles are allowed. In other words, be careful where you intend to use the 30-30, which by itself is a fine shorter range (say 125 yds and down) deer cartridge - the only reason I don't say longer than that is the trajectory gets a bit "loopy" after that