I still have a .30-30 Winchester Ranger. I've had it for years. I've always thought it was a serviceable little lever action, easy to point, shoot and hit what you were aiming at.
Then I googled it.
Posts after posts about how this rifle is the biggest POS Winchester ever made.
Could've fooled me. Works just fine.
I probably would have been one of those telling you how awful they were if I had not owned that good one.
BTW, I got a steal on it. I was walking to my car after visiting a gun show and met a guy going in. He had three guns and asked me if I wanted them. He said $90 for all three and I took them.
One was a rusty Chinese Mosin Nagant carbine. The other a rusty single barrel .20 gauge Western Auto and the third was the Winchester.
I gave the Mosin to a friend and he cleaned it up so well that I sort of wished I had kept it. The single barrel worked OK but was not ejecting empty shells. I found that some one for some reason had put a piece of cardboard under the ejector spring. I removed it and it then worked perfectly. As luck would have it my Nephew’s next door neighbor in Gainesville, FL moved and left a lot of nice things beside the street. Among them was 20 boxes of 20 gauge shells. My Nephew asked him for them then gave them to me. I now had a pretty decent single barrel .20 gauge with auto ejector.
Of course the gem of that group was the rough looking but sweet shooting and handling model 94. The action really was superb, feeding flawlessly.