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Her name was Phoebe Ann (Annie) Butler nee Mosley, but on stage, she went by Annie Oakley, and her career in the shooting arts was nothing short of remarkable.

Almost as soon as the modern-style brass rifle cartridge entered the scene in the mid-19th century, American shooters began messing around with them. 

While Winchester produced several slide-action and semi-auto rimfires prior to the introduction of the Model 52, for the purposes of this piece we’ll just look at (rimfire) bolt guns. 

Resolved: The .30-06 Springfield, originally known as the Caliber .30 U.S. Govt Model of 1906, is the standard by which all North American centerfire big-game cartridges must be judged.

Resolved: The Winchester Model 1894, being a near-perfect combination of rifle and cartridge, is the gold standard by which all succeeding lever-action rifles must be judged. 

The thirty-something range of rifle cartridges, like any other range, has a fair share of oddballs.

As we approach the top-end of the Thirty-Something rifle cartridges, we get a real mixed bag. 

It’s somewhat baffling that this perfect mid-range never really seemed to catch on with American shooters, beside a couple of noteworthy exceptions. 

I find the thirty-threes to be some of the most useful of the thirty-something calibers for the North American game fields.

Mid-caliber rifle cartridges are very useful.