Some of you are familiar with how easy it is to get good groups from the old Remington 788 in any chambering . This one though is for the odd ball 30-30 Winchester round . Before I got the rifle someone thoughtfully put a Williams receiver sight on it . What is nice about this rifle is I have a nice hundred fifty grain jacketed bullet load for it and a light weight lead bullet that hits at the same sight setting .
What I'm into now is trying to at add the Lyman 311466 bullet into the same sight setting clan if I can . Current loading is twenty-two grains of Reloder seven , large rifle primer and the bullets sized at .309" with the bottom four groove filled with LBT blue lube . Overall length is long enough it isn't likely to run through a lever gun no leading is present with the load . The downside is even as nice as it shoots it's still several inches below the impact of the jacketed bullets .
My current Lyman manuals don't show this bullet listed in the 30WCF so I'm going slowly and watching close . Since the same manuals show Reloder seven in the same cartridge with a heavier bullet I can't help but wonder how much heavier of a charge I could get away with and raise the point of impact .
A question for you guys that have been on this road . Will increasing the powder charge a bit more raise the point of impact ? I don't much care if the lead bullet is faster or slower than the jacketed counterpart . Just as long as the load is safe and groups reasonably well I'm going to be happy . Any ideas ?
Thanks , Jack