Thread: reloading the 30-30 winchester
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Old 06-12-2009, 08:49 AM
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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.
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