The .30 Remington cartridge was created in 1906 by Remington Arms

Remington Arms

Remington Arms Company, Inc. was founded in 1816 by Eliphalet Remington in Ilion, New York, as E. Remington and Sons. It is the oldest company in the United States which still makes its original product, and is the oldest continuously operating manufacturer in North America. It is the only U.S....

. It was Remington's rimless answer to the popular .30-30 Winchester

.30-30 Winchester

The .30-30 Winchester/.30 Winchester Center Fire/7.62×51mmR cartridge was first marketed in early 1895 for the Winchester Model 1894 lever-action rifle. The .30-30 , as it is most commonly known, was the USA's first small-bore, sporting rifle cartridge designed for smokeless powder. The .30-30 is...

 cartridge

Cartridge (firearms)

A cartridge, also called a round, packages the bullet, gunpowder and primer into a single metallic case precisely made to fit the firing chamber of a firearm. The primer is a small charge of impact-sensitive chemical that may be located at the center of the case head or at its rim . Electrically...

. Factory ammunition was produced up until the late 1980s, but now it is a prospect for handloaders. Load data for the .30-30 Winchester can be used safely for the .30 Remington.

Background

Although the cartridge has dwindled into obscurity to hunters, it lives on by being the parent case of the 10mm auto and the 6.8 mm Remington SPC

6.8 mm Remington SPC

The 6.8 mm Remington SPC is a rifle cartridge that was developed with collaboration from individual members of United States Special Operations Command . Based upon the .30 Remington cartridge, it is midway between the 5.56×45mm NATO and 7.62×51mm NATO in bore diameter and velocity...

 cartridge. Unlike the .30-30, the .30 Remington can utilize standard pointed bullets rather than round nosed ones when used in rifles with box magazines (Remington Model 8

Remington Model 8

The Remington Model 8 is a centerfire, recoil-operated, semi-automatic rifle designed by John Browning and produced by Remington Arms beginning in 1906.John Browning was granted on October 16, 1900 for the rifle, which he then sold to Remington...

) and ones with special tubular magazines (Remington model 14

Remington model 14

The Remington model 14 was a pump-action repeating rifle designed for the Remington Arms company by John Pedersen.-History:John Pedersen was a Danish born arms inventor who worked for Remington Arms and for the United States Government. Well known for the military Pedersen device, he designed...

). This gives it a possible advantage over the .30-30 cartridge which is most often chambered in lever-action

Lever-action

Lever-action is a type of firearm action which uses a lever located around the trigger guard area, to load fresh cartridges into the chamber of the barrel when the lever is worked. Most lever-action firearms are rifles, but lever-action shotguns and a few pistols have also been made...

rifles with standard tubular magazines (in which using a conventional pointed bullet could lead to cartridges being ignited by in the magazine tube by recoil into a primer).

While the .30 Remington is ballistically equivalent to the .30-30 Winchester cartridge, the cartridges are not the same and are not interchangeable. The dimensions of the brass are different.