30-30 youth load

[Don McDowell]

Tatume, that's exactly right. Plus a pound of 4895 using the reduced data will load an big bunch of rounds, which is doubly important when you have a youngster that is eating this learning to shoot thing up with an extra large size spoon.

[Tar Heel]

Use the Lee 309-170-F over 10.0gr of Trail Boss. Nice load.

Attachment 260691 Attachment 260692

[Cosmic_Charlie]

7.5 gr. of Unique under a 165 gr. boolit gave good accuracy. Plain based bullet cast of 20/1 sized to .310 and tumble lubed.

[webfoot10]

Noe 313-150 ranchdog bullet gaschecked sized .311. over 26 grs aa2520, Nice load
with little recoil. 1800 fps very accurate.

[smkummer]

Lyman 311291 or 311041 with 10 grains unique. 170 grain bullet at about 1500 FPS. Approximate 357 rifle or 32-40 performance. Light recoil and will still drop a dear. Oh and so economical. Also, did I mention it was cheap?

Love my waffle top Marlin 35 Remington.

[smkummer]

I was water dropping WW alloy. Very hard. If I was going to hunt with it, I would see if air cooled gave me good accuracy because I may then get expansion. Still using gas checks.

[Greg]

my 30-30 is an 22" H&R with a 1¾-5x scope mounted as low as I could get it.

my first small game load was inspired by Larry Gibson’s article “The old Gentleman.” in
the past the article was on CastPics, I couldn’t find it there just now…

google-foo is your friend-- https://www.beartoothbullets.com/pri...e=Trail%20Talk

anyway I worked out a load for a Javelina hunt, but didn’t get a shot…

3118 in 50:50 (BHN 8) alloy, 120 grains; 7½ grains Unique, WLP primer, 2.375"oal
1480 fps. It will penetrate 3+ milk jugs of water at 50 yards.


I had picked up a mould on e-bay that I thought was a good deal…it turned out that sometime in the past it had been filed down to replicate the small game bullet of more than 100 years ago. it was well done, and still cast a usable boolit.

311241 in 20:1 alloy, 105 grains; 2½ grains Red Dot, WLP primer, at 2.395" oal,
this is an old mould that was altered into a small game bullet, this load just about duplicates the 32 rimfire - load / speed. it shoots about ¾" high at 25 yards into groups the size of a dime.

here are a few threads along this idea…

by John Kort - http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...-a-replication

by 35 Remington - http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...utter-in-a-308

by Ben - http://castboolits.gunloads.com/show...rsatile-pistol

[Cosmic_Charlie]

I shoot a NOE plan base 165 RD over 8.7 gr of unique out of my Sears / Chester for a lot of fun , they stay in a inch or so at 50 yards most of the time , and are not very loud at all .
Wanna try some ..........

I use a similar boolit by Accurate Molds. Just cast some at 12 bhn to try mild loads with. Going to see if that alloy will stand up to 10 grains of Unique. 20/1 worked well with 8 grains but leaded at 9.5.

[Cosmic_Charlie]

Noe 313-150 ranchdog bullet gaschecked sized .311. over 26 grs aa2520, Nice load
with little recoil. 1800 fps very accurate.

Interesting. I've got that powder and gas checked mold. The velocity is higher than what I get with 2400 powder. Should be a good load for deer.

[northmn]

I was water dropping WW alloy. Very hard. If I was going to hunt with it, I would see if air cooled gave me good accuracy because I may then get expansion. Still using gas checks.

I used that system but placed the hunting bullets in a pan of water to cover the bases and then took a torch and annealed the noses. They expanded very well. You can even add a little lead to the WW to get a softer nose and still have a hard base. Lead anneals when heated and not quenched. I did lose a few bullets to droop but you do not need to do that many for hunting and can use the un annealed ones for casual shooting.

DEP

[cosmoline one]

like shooting a 22 but hits much harder, one ragged hole at 50 yds
155gr. FBRN, .311", tumbled in Lee liquid alox,
5.0x700x=1020fps
5.3x700x=1060fps
6.3x700x=1185fps