Need load info for 30-30

notnow

March 23, 2020 22:00

I bought some cast 135 gr 30 cal flat nose bullets at a gun show. The seller had no load data. I bought them anyway. 4 yrs. ago. Loading for 30-30 in a mod 94. Lots of 150 gr data. None for 135 gr. Just high and low parameters would help. I'm looking for manageable pressures and velocity. I have RE7 and IMR3031 and likely others. thanks.

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  charliemeyer007

  March 23, 2020 22:38

  Lead bullet data for 150 gr will work fine for 135 gr.  You can only push the bullets so hard, they will both top out in velocity before you reach max pressure level.  I'll drag out my Lyman books and look later today.
  
  added Still looking for the cast bullet data book.

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  notnow

  March 23, 2020 23:52

  Thanks. I hadn't considered that.
  

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  navc130

  March 24, 2020 12:59

  This is what I found in old 1960 and 1064 Lyman Reloading manuals, cast lead bullets:  no specific loads for 135 gr.
  125 gr  2400  16.0  1765 fps
  125 gr  Unique 13.0  1350 fps
  150 gr  2400  18.0  2100 fps
  150 gr Unique 9.0  1300 fps
  150 gr  3031  18.0  1565 fps
  

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  mrmike08075

  March 24, 2020 13:09

  
  

  130 gr (8 g) FP2,496 ft/s (761 m/s)1,799 ft⋅lbf (2,439 J)

  It's a hodgdon load...

  Mike

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  NeoBlackdog

  March 24, 2020 16:08

  Hodgdon site has lots of loads. 

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  mrmike08075

  March 24, 2020 19:03

  I want to say that back n the day Norma had an Oryx load that used this weight bullet in the .30-30 wcf

  Mike

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  notnow

  March 25, 2020 22:20

  Thank-you very much, gentlemen.
  

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