30 GNR load info

My son got a .30 GNR barrel at HHC and we made him a fine hunting handgun. It's totally his rig and he took a nice Hawaiian Ram with it using a 150 gr. Nosler Ballistic tip. It seems with our gun the velocity always hovers around 2400 fps no matter the powder, with a 150 gr. or so bullet. It's not really magic, it just works. The accuracy is so good I nee no reason to try to make it go faster and risk some loss. I think I just used Gary's manual loads with whatever powder we had around.

Roman's rig is a G2 with Pachmayr furniture and a sling. Burris 2-7X on a Weaver alloy base with Burris Zee rings. It shoots .30-30 Win. perfectly while making cases. The barrel has no brake or porting and really does not need any.

It’s all I really use, I’ve played with it exclusively . Speer 130 grain hollow point is a nice one, ftx 160’s both the .330 bc and the .395 bc versions have done well. Caution is best, I started with a calculated load of 39.5, and worked my way up from there. I measured the pressure ring area above the rim before and after shots, played with magnum and standard primers. I run them through a marlin 336. I have found shaken or longer drop tube allows the powder to naturally settle and helps reduce compression and gives more velocity. The exact same charge one drop tuned and not jut metered directly into the case. The same 150 grain ,in my case 150 grain Hornady sp interlock, loaded in 30-30 is 38.5 gr LVR. I will say that I have gone higher with the LVR load, but it works for me. 39.5 is a safe place to start, imho, I worked up in .2, .5 and so forth to find a great load.