Thread: 30/30 reloading

Through my 336 15.5 inch barrel I'm using

29.5gn of 2206h with 160gn ftx
28 gn of 2206h with 170gn FN
And a plinker (sub) round with 7gn trailboss and a 150 RN

I would like to try casting at some stage, looks like fun.
Shots at 50m

Originally Posted by Nathanfish

Through my 336 15.5 inch barrel I'm using

29.5gn of 2206h with 160gn ftx
28 gn of 2206h with 170gn FN
And a plinker (sub) round with 7gn trailboss and a 150 RN

I would like to try casting at some stage, looks like fun.
Shots at 50m
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@Nathanfish what speeds were you getting for each load ? I have an identical stainless 336 with 16.5" barrel on the way and was just gonna use leverrevolution ammo but your results look promising I guess I might go down that rabbit hole and add 30-30 to the list of calibers I load

Sorry mate. When I shot these, I had to use the indoor range which is pretty shit for light so my chrono didn't read . Mine did not shoot well with factory levereverlution where the cheap ppu stuff was good

Originally Posted by Nathanfish

Sorry mate. When I shot these, I had to use the indoor range which is pretty shit for light so my chrono didn't read . Mine did not shoot well with factory levereverlution where the cheap ppu stuff was good

No one seems to stock PPU currently

I've found the ppu brass to be good as well. The hornady brass is crap. Very tight primer pocket and ver thin walls , Had to bin a few cases with disturbing splits down the lengths of the case after firing the factory load.

Looks like good groups, did you have a scope on it?

Originally Posted by Nathanfish

Through my 336 15.5 inch barrel I'm using

29.5gn of 2206h with 160gn ftx
28 gn of 2206h with 170gn FN
And a plinker (sub) round with 7gn trailboss and a 150 RN

I would like to try casting at some stage, looks like fun.
Shots at 50m
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No scope. Got a bushnell trs-26 on it. Sorry for blurry pic

While I don't have any loads for you, I used IMR3031 and switched to 170 grain projectiles years ago after having a good talk with a fellow who had devoted his career to Winchester 94's. His wisdom was that the 30-30 was a 100-150m gun for most people in most circumstances with it being almost always used within 75m, so the slightly more arc'ed trajectory more or less didn't matter but the additional weight of the projectile did, with 170 grains being about the heaviest projectile that would reliably stabilize in most 30-30 barrels.

Don't really know if it's true, but had a lot of success with the winchester 94 and those loads until I got tired of pulling the 94 apart to get the water out of it after every hunt. The 94 isn't all that waterproof or all that fast to disassemble/reassemble

I can buy PPU brass easily enough maybe I'll just load from the beginning

I would if I could start again .

Does the Remington Corelockt load okay? I have a fair bit of that.

Originally Posted by 308mate

Does the Remington Corelockt load okay? I have a fair bit of that.

it will do....remington has been around the block more than once so knows its shit.
the speer 170grn flat nose has great reputation for the 30/30...as was said above its a balancing act and it sort of fits best.

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.