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My dad had a 336 when I was a kid. .30-30, but he never hunted much, and it ended up going to pay the rent for a couple of months and never came back.
Somehow, I got my hands on a Marlin catalog and just spent hours drooling over the 39a and 39 Texan. Never made up my mind which I wanted more, and never got one since my mother forbade my father and uncles from getting me one.
About two years ago, I came across the 30AS pictured here (what they used to call the plain Jane 336 in an unadorned, no checkering birch stock), and got it for, IIRC, $225. Shot a box through it with the open sights, but it seemed to hit high, even with the ladder as low as it would go. And my eyes aren't really what they used to be, so I put a 4x Leupold scope I had lying around on it. Shoots pretty good, but the old Leupold M7 is really more of a collector thing now than a practical scope, so it might get swapped out, or I might try a peep sight. I hesitate to do that, though, since most shots on game out here are pretty far. Which is why I still haven't hunted with it - the only shot I got on a buck last year was 300 yards. Made a clean kill with my .243, but I'm pretty sure the .30-30 isn't the best choice for that kind of hunting.