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Load for 30-30
lcflcf
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Hello, I have some 170 gr. silver tip bullets I bought from Midway, Anyone have a load for them, Thanks, Les
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Other great loads are 32.0 of RL-15, 35.0 of W748 or 28.5 grains of IMR4895. Those are at or near max, so reduce to start. Seat right to the cannelure and crimp lightly. All use standard LR primers.
I agree with Rocky, medium burning rate rifle powders work best in the .30-30, but I would be careful with "light" crimps. It is recommended to crimp reloads that will be used in rifles with tubular magazines. Sometimes I do, and sometimes I don't--perhaps because I full length resize my .30-30 cases. The neck tension has always been sufficient to keep the bullets in place without a crimp in my Mod. 94 "tubular" rifle. Certainly crimping does no harm as long as the bullet has a crimping cannelure. I would stack 6 bullets, shoot a couple, then measure the rest; Just my 2 cents...