A question about Marlin express bullets

[sure as shootin]

Had a guy give me four dozen .308 reloads since he had no use for them. I wasn't going to use them in my rifle because I had no idea of how they were worked up but I thought I pull them, resize the brass with a FL die, and reload them again with my powder and primers. When I first saw them I assumed the bullets were 150 gr. Hornady SST. As it turned out after weighing them (160 Gr.) I realized they couldn't be the SSTs and after going through my Hornady manual that they were the FTX Marlin Express .308 bullets.

My question is,,,,,could these bullets be used in a .308 Win rifle for plinking or because they're for a Marlin Express .308 would they even chamber?

 

[GMC403]

They will work, and likely work great!

There's two variants. The 30-30 model and the 308mx model, both are 160gr but they have different cannelures, and apperantly different jacket thickness.

I've loaded the .308 FTX bullets in the 30-30, 308MX, 308, 30/06 and the .35 FTX bullets in the 357, 35 Rem, 35 Whelen.

I've found them to be quite accurate.

 

[sure as shootin]

They will work, and likely work great!

There's two variants. The 30-30 model and the 308mx model, both are 160gr but they have different cannelures, and apperantly different jacket thickness.

I've loaded the .308 FTX bullets in the 30-30, 308MX, 308, 30/06 and the .35 FTX bullets in the 357, 35 Rem, 35 Whelen.

I've found them to be quite accurate.

Good to know! I'll only be using them on paper since I use copper pills for all my hunting but 4 dozen extra free bullets is good for a couple of days of playing at the range but I'll wait until the spring before I use them since I'm dialed in at the moment with the TTSX for hunting this fall.

 

[stevo911_]

They will work, and likely work great!

There's two variants. The 30-30 model and the 308mx model, both are 160gr but they have different cannelures, and apperantly different jacket thickness.

I've loaded the .308 FTX bullets in the 30-30, 308MX, 308, 30/06 and the .35 FTX bullets in the 357, 35 Rem, 35 Whelen.

I've found them to be quite accurate.

Have you used the 308MX bullets in 30-30 by any chance? (been trying to figure out if it's doable to have a projectile that holds together better than the 30-30 version), I know you'd have to seat the bullet past the cannelure, but that's all i've got...