Ahh, cast bullets are a whole nuther samovar of sardines.

With a plain-base 150/170, 7.0 of 700X gives 1200 fps.

Anything higher needs a gas check, and with those, my pet loads are 10 Unique, 16 2400 and 20 AA5744. I don't push them above 2000 fps.

Thanks Rocky, Firefox fixed the website problem. I can now read your stuff again. Re the 30cal plinker bullets: My mail order components supplier carries the Speer bullet but not the Hornady. Price (w/o S&H) is just over $14/100. Will be trying these shortly.

270man