Loading for a Savage 170 Pump 30/30

[Rocky Raab]

I doubt that you'll need small-base dies for your Savage. I've never seen a 30-30 chamber in any gun that wasn't...let's just say "generously proportioned" shall we?

As far as getting 2600 fps from a 30-30, I think that writer dangerously exaggerated his results. Unless he used very light bullets, that kind of speed just isn't in the cards.

I wouldn't hope for much more than the factory speeds with standard-weight bullets. That means 2200 with 150-gr and 2100 with 170s. At most, add another hundred feet per second.

Nor should you expect to get target accuracy. Neither the gun nor the brass is made to the standards of the benchrest crowd. Minute of deer, sure. Minute of groundhog, just maybe.

But that should be one fine little "triente triente" you have there!