What projectiles does everyone use for 30-30 lever actions

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Hello all I have a Winchester model 94 in 30-30, I am looking for a projectile for it I'm thinking of the 180 grain bullets, either a flat nose or a hollow point, either solid copper or soft point, any advice or anyone have preference?

I'm looking for moose and black bear defence and maybe varmint knock downs
 
Cleftwynd said:
I just use 170 grain FNSP Hornady's. Interlok's I believe. Work well at 30-30 speeds and distances with open sights.
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I'll second your thoughts on this bullet as well, pretty hard to beat it for the 30-30 in my opinion. I've been loading these for many years now in many different rifles and they have always performed well.
 
Yup dad has taken moose here in Labrador, and I've taken moose, wolves, bears and caribou when we could, the bears, and wolves self defence in the woods, but there was not any punch to the bullets, they were 150 grains, I like the 180s in my 308 rifle, so I thought use the same incase I cast bullets for them
 
The 30-30 and a 170 grain bullet seems to be a perfect combination. I have always been rewarded with the best accuracy with 170 grainers.

I have two Marlins, both are micro-groove units. One has a 24" barrel [336A], the other a 20" tube.

My 20" M336 shoots the 170 Speer flatnose, chased by 3x grains of WC755 into moa or less regularly.

The longer barrelled rifle comes very close with the Nosler 170 grain Solid base FN bullet and 3x grains of Leverevolution, a powder I am liking in the 30-30
more and more as I use it. Even the 160 grain FTX seems to work well with it.....and velocities are good.

Regards, Dave.
 
I have Barnes TSX 150gr. loaded up for hogs and other big nasties. For whitetail, I would use Hornady 160gr. Leverevolution.
 
I am running 170g hornady sand levereveolution. Happy with accuracy. Have not put them in game yet. Didn't get my components in on time. But I can say Remington cor-lok and federal blue box. All 170g work great on deer and moose.

Honslty. It's a 30cal bullet. 170g. Put it in the right spot. At under 200yrds. It's going to go Down.
 
For deer I use mostly 150 Sierra FN chased by leverelution for a velocity of 2450 gpa out of my win 94. The Barnes 150 XFN should work well for moose n bears. I use the hornady 170 FN out of my 307 model 94 cause they are one of the tougher 30 cal FN. The sierras are probably the softest followed by the speers then the hornady's then the mono coppers being the toughest in either hornady monoflex and Barnes configurations
 
Nobody said it yet, I'll do: Don't use your 308's 180gr pointed nose bullets in your tubular mag rifle, unless you only put no more than 1 in the mag at any time.
 
I watched the videos on the monoflex Ir ftx with flex tips, I still find it wierd, the interlock fn I think I'll go for thanks for all the advice everyone
 
wcat said:
Nobody said it yet, I'll do: Don't use your 308's 180gr pointed nose bullets in your tubular mag rifle, unless you only put no more than 1 in the mag at any time.
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I've seen an old man take his eye out with them, poor old guy, he still hunts, makes me nervous, he tried to use his right eye, the damaged eye with the rifles
 
jmichelin84 said:
I watched the videos on the monoflex Ir ftx with flex tips, I still find it wierd, the interlock fn I think I'll go for thanks for all the advice everyone
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For the 30-30 you can't really go wrong with a decent FN 170 bullet such as the interlok. I myself have been using superformance with good results.


I'll have to get some more leverevolution soon to try again!
 
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