Thread: 30/30 reloading

I haven't put a jacketed round through my winchester for years, it lives on a diet of cast bullets from 113 grains to 180 all flat nosed lead without gas checks, I have hollow pointed some and they expand better in tissue but if you hit bone it seems to make no difference.
Ive shot rabbits to deer with it at 20 feet to 100 yards speeds from 800 fps to just over 1600 fPS above that I get leading and can't be bothered with faffinf around with gas checks for a couple of hundred feet per second more. At 1000 ft lbs the 180s are about half the energy of the jacketed stuff but way more pleasant to shoot and seem to be as effective with way less tissue damage.
I have no experience with suppressing it however so the answer about why not I await with interest.