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

Factory ammunition was produced until the late 1980s, but now it is a prospect for handloaders.

It is the parent case for the 6.8mm Remington SPC,[1] which is in turn the parent case for the .224 Valkyrie.

[2] 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) and ones with special tubular magazines (Remington Model 14).

This gives it a possible advantage over the .30-30 cartridge which is most often chambered in lever-action rifles with standard tubular magazines (in which a conventional pointed bullet could lead to cartridges being ignited in the magazine tube by recoiling into a primer).