Comparison test of two 30-30 Win loads

Ian

Notorious member
Use a Lyman lubesizer and gas check seater to seat and partially crimp your checks. Make certain your die and top punch align....a 45 is better than a 450 or 4500. Finish in a push-through and powder coat them. Size again after coating in a push-through.

The NOE unit is fine but you need to partly crimp before shoving them through a push-through or the checks will back off the base of the bullet and may not reseat squarely (=flyers).
 

Rally

NC Minnesota
one more thing about shooting powder coated plain base or checked designs without the check is that base band getting flame cut. Here's one I recovered from my bullet trap, load was Bullseye (whatever Ben recommended, I don't recall now). These neither touched the more with their noses nor got significantly flame-cut. They grouped about 1.5 MOA at 50 yards IIRC.

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Sorry Ian. I read that completely wrong! I somehow got that you were saying just the opposite of what you did, and the damage on the forward bands were gas cutting. :headscratch: Went back and reread your post and have no idea how I came up with that, I wasn't even drinking!!
 

Ian

Notorious member
I kinda did set it up like that in my first sentence...and then showed one that wasn't. I wanted to show one that was but in a moment of cleaning fit with brain off I melted that whole pile of recovered bullets.
 

Bret4207

At the casting bench in the sky. RIP Bret.
Thank you for the feedback, Bret.

1270 fps at the muzzle. I don't know what it would be at 100 yards.

These north Florida deer are definitely small.

Trajectory: I shoot from a shooting house and all of the deer I have killed there have been at a distance of 100 to 120 yards. Never closer.

All my kills have been "drop at the shot" because I shoot them in the neck. My tracking skills are nil. Shooting them in the neck is no great feat, I practice placing all my shots within a 3" target at the range I anticipate my game to be. If you can confidently do that you can shoot them in the neck.

I will be more comfortable with a flatter shooting, harder hitting load. I am going to follow the lead of Ian with his RX7 22.5 grains with a Lyman 31141 gas checked powder coated 10 BHN bullet and go from there.


I think you are on the right track then.