Folks who study paper ballistics love to bash the .30-30. Folks who hunt with a .30-30 know just how effective a cartridge it is inside 150 yds., and continue to use it on bear and deer-sized game with complete confidence. When it was introduced, it was the do-all end-all cartridge of the 1890s!
A hard cast FN .44 cal. bullet will cut a larger entry hole than a .30 cal bullet. Other than that, I consider those two cartridges similarly effective on game. JMO, based on my own experience.
Maj. Doug Wesson went on an extended big game hunt in the western US back in the 1930s to showcase the then-new .357 Magnum. He brought back deer of all sort, antelope, bear, elk caribou, and others - and there was all of that same hyperbolic ballistics chatter and comparison with the .30-30 back then.
xtm
A hard cast FN .44 cal. bullet will cut a larger entry hole than a .30 cal bullet. Other than that, I consider those two cartridges similarly effective on game. JMO, based on my own experience.
Maj. Doug Wesson went on an extended big game hunt in the western US back in the 1930s to showcase the then-new .357 Magnum. He brought back deer of all sort, antelope, bear, elk caribou, and others - and there was all of that same hyperbolic ballistics chatter and comparison with the .30-30 back then.
xtm