Would you use these? Purchased wrong bullets-UDATED , they don't feed.

Kelly Timoffee

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Well, made a slight error.

Ordered some Swift A-Frames in .308 150gr. Thought I was ordering standard A-Frames. I swore I saw them listed on Swifts site before, but looking now, maybe not.

When they arrived I looked at box and said they sure are blunt , then, found out why.

Thems are for 30-30 levers.

I know they will work but I don't really want to load them down to 30-30 level for a 308 Win.
 
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The Swift website states these bullets are good up to 2700 fps.

I used Hornady interlock 30-30 170 grain flat point bullets for deer hunting in my 03-A3 30-06 at 2600 fps.
 
Kelly, I don't know what distances you plan to shoot but out to 300+ yards there will likely be little if any difference in trajectory to a spire point. The main difference is what you intend to use those bullets for and what velocities you want them to go. I have used the same bullets in a 30-06 at close to maximum 06 velocities and they did a great job on White Tails and Bears. Even at those velocities the base of the bullets held together well and I never recovered a bullet. Little bits of jacket and lead in the wound channel but that was about all. One Bear was shot through both shoulders at less than 20 yards with similar results. There was a bit more damaged/bloodshot meat but that was to be expected.
 
Kelly, load those 30-30 bullets up to 308 velocity and watch northerly Sask whitetail deer hit the ground faster than you ever saw before!
Bruce
 
I will go hard , I have used lots of Swift products before as I know their quality , I however didn't know if these actually were to designed and operated at lower velocities in the real world or not. A bonded A-Frame bullet is going to be tough.

As for distances, yes bearhunter, it will be used in a M88 and likely not have to exceed the 300 yd barrier. If yourself and H4831 says go for it, I does.

Now if you can believe this, with my stockpile of powder I don't have anything suitable for this application?! :redface:
 
I assume the 30-30 bullets are designed to expand at a lower velocity than a 308 round.

But you are in Sask. 30-30 deer are shot at 25 to 50 yards. A Sask 308 deer is shot at 100 to 200 yards. Velocity won't be too high, so I would expect good performance.
 
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Yes, the box says up to 2600 ft/sec and online says 2700 ft/sec , if I settle on a load that is faster than that I will back up until I am at a suitable range. :)

1.5 MOA will be more than plenty for what this rifle will be chasing as well.

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I assume the 30-30 bullets are designed to expand at a lower velocity than a 308 round.

Bust you are in Sask. 30-30 deer are shot at 25 to 50 yards. A Sask 308 deer is shot at 100 to 200 yards. Velocity won't be too high, so I would expect good performance.
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This one is a bit special and I am going to load for it and use it on occasion in remembrance of its previous owner.

I will keep things within reasonable limits. :)

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If you do manage to drive it so hard that it sheds the bonded front core it wouldn't be any worse than a Nosler partition.

I always wanted a M88.
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