30-06 bullet choices

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I have a remington 7400 in 30-06 and am currently shooting 165 gr hornady sst.I am wanting to scale down to 150 gr leads and was hopeing for some advice on what to try.I am wanting to stay with IMR 4350 but any advice on bullets or powders would be great.I like the way the sst bullet works but they dont group the greatest out of my rifle and I am looking for some better accuracy out of it.
 
Why not just try the 150gr SST?

I use IMR 4895 with both my 150 and 165gr loads in my 30-06. 4350 I use for heavy bullets in the 30-06.

BTW, you may find that going to a heaver/longer bullet will give you better accuracy, as opposed to going lighter, but this it's not guaranteed.
 
I am shooting 30-06 and 150 gr using IMR 4350 but I am using Hornady SST for practice only and NO LEAD Barnes 150 gr TTSX for hunting.
 
I have been shooting the regular hornady 150 flat base with 57 grains of 4350 for many years in my rifle. It has always been an extremely accurate load for me and has ended the careers of many a deer. It is 2 grains below listed max in the Hornady manual but it is much more accurate in my rifle.
 
My model 70 '06 likes 165 hornady GMX and regular 165 flat base hornady's with H4350, W-W brass and fed 210GM. Both bullets give 2850 fps with accuracy under an inch. Hopes that gives you a starting point.
 
If you are shooting a 742, chances are it's not long range hunting you are doing.

Why not Hornady Spirepoints, great bullets, very accurate, good on game.
 
Northman999 said:
BTW, you may find that going to a heaver/longer bullet will give you better accuracy, as opposed to going lighter, but this it's not guaranteed.
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I would almost guarantee that!
Every 30-06 I ever heard of shot their best with a good charge of H4831 behind a 220 grain bullet.
I hate to go back to what Jack O'Connor said, but he once wrote that he got a box of 220 grain round nose bullets to use for some type of hunting with his 30-06. He said when he was sighting in the rifle he got so fascinated with their accuracy, that he used up his whole box of bullets just shooting at the range.
That was when I tried it and sure enough, same thing!
 
If you are looking for decent accuracy and flexibility, the rifle should be tested with 180 gr and 200 gr Round Nose bullets. Your 4350 would be perfect for those bullets.

Start each at the start load, and test up in 0.5 gr increments. You will find a load that works better.
 
My 7400 carbine had some significant diet problems which I was able to solve using 180 grain Nosler ballistic Silvertips and 45 grains of IMR4895 and CCI primers. The ballistic tips solved the feed/jamming problems (soft-tip bullets would hang up on the feed to the chamber creating deformities which would subsequently create accuracy problems downrange beyond 200m). Once I got some consistency in my loads I was able to punch clover leafs onto my paper at 100m.
 
There is also the Hornady Amax 155gr.
It says on the box designed for 1:12 or faster twist.
I've loaded up some for my Husky but haven't shot any yet.
 
If you do decide to go with a 150 gr bullet, look at IMR4064 as a powder. It is good with lightish bullets in the 30-06.

Personally i like the 180 gr bullet in 30-06.
 
150 gr.in the 30-06 has been my choice for my type of shooting for the last 30 years. A couple of years ago I decided to try Hornady sst instead of the Sierra gk.that I had been using.
The results were very impressive ( best 5 shot group during testing 1 5/8 @ 200 yds.)
I also like IMR 4350 and use it almost exclusively in the 06. My rifle is a mod 70 Win.Sportster with a 24 in bbl.
Because it is over the high end in most of my manuals I can not list the charge weight here,it is safe and shows no pressure signs in my rifle.(the load was shown as a recommended accuracy load in an old Lyman manual)
In passing this is not a slur on Sierra, with the success of the 06 experiment I decided to go the same route with my .270 Win.FWT. Changing from Sierra to Hornady (130 gr.) changed the 100 yd groups from <1 in. to over 4.5 in.
Proving only that each rifle is a game of its own.
TGR
 
TGReaper said:
150 gr.in the 30-06 has been my choice for my type of shooting for the last 30 years. A couple of years ago I decided to try Hornady sst instead of the Sierra gk.that I had been using.
The results were very impressive ( best 5 shot group during testing 1 5/8 @ 200 yds.)
I also like IMR 4350 and use it almost exclusively in the 06. My rifle is a mod 70 Win.Sportster with a 24 in bbl.
Because it is over the high end in most of my manuals I can not list the charge weight here,it is safe and shows no pressure signs in my rifle.(the load was shown as a recommended accuracy load in an old Lyman manual)
In passing this is not a slur on Sierra, with the success of the 06 experiment I decided to go the same route with my .270 Win.FWT. Changing from Sierra to Hornady (130 gr.) changed the 100 yd groups from <1 in. to over 4.5 in.
Proving only that each rifle is a game of its own.
TGR
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It would actually be hard to get a couple more grains of IMR4350 than listed in the Lyman manuals into a 30-06 case, because these loads are already compressed. They ran out of capacity before they reached max pressure when using IMR4350 / 150 gr bullets in a 30-06.
 
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