30-06 bullet mold

[lotech]

After doing a bit of work along these lines in an old Model 70 .30-06 with 180-200 grain bullets, I'd try SR4759, 5744, Reloder 7, and H4895, approximately in that order.

[ukrifleman]

I am very partial to the Lee 312-185 sized .311 for my 03-A3.

Ken

+1 for the Lee 185-312 in 30-06.

I load it for my all original Remington Model of 1917, gas checked to .311 and get good results.

ukrifleman.

[MaxJon]

I'm itching to try the Rcbs 180FP (82014) in my p06 M98 1/12T, 26inch heavy tube!

[Martin Luber]

No one using 311291?

[Butler Ford]

Yup! Another vote for the 284!

[Larry Gibson]

No one using 311291?

I use the 311291 a lot in my '06s for practice and use the 311041 for hunting. Both weigh in, fully dressed, within a gr or so of 180 so I guess that's close enough to the OPs request. They both shoot equally great loaded over 28 - 30 gr 4895 with a Dacron filler in my 30-06s. Here is a 'yote target I shot yesterday using that load with the 311041 in my M70 Classic Sporter. Twenty shots for score. Range was 200 yards. Position was sitting with a Primus trigger stick bipod. This was for a CBA postal match. It was one of those "diamond" days btw........

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[Elkins45]

Unless you know you want to begin with a four or five cavity mold I would start with the Lee 200 grain bullet. My experience has been that it is just as accurate as the 311299, and at least with the two molds I have the nose isn’t too fat. I have a four cavity NOE version and the nose is too fat to chamber at ‘normal’ seating depth in some rifles.

I have two of the Lee molds and I switch out and get a pretty good cast rate.

[kokomokid]

I use the 311291 a lot in my '06s for practice and use the 311041 for hunting. Both weigh in, fully dressed, within a gr or so of 180 so I guess that's close enough to the OPs request. They both shoot equally great loaded over 28 - 30 gr 4895 with a Dacron filler in my 30-06s. Here is a 'yote target I shot yesterday using that load with the 311041 in my M70 Classic Sporter. Twenty shots for score. Range was 200 yards. Position was sitting with a Primus trigger stick bipod. This was for a CBA postal match. It was one of those "diamond" days btw........

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Larry, was these shot in a slower twist barrel? Want something that will shoot high velocity for wild pigs at 250yds +/- .

[NC_JEFF]

I have experience with the Saeco #315, it's the first 180gr bullet I tried in my model 70 (5 digit serial #)
30-06. I liked it so much I almost didn't try any others, very accurate bullet. I still shoot it but I've added a 311299 to the load list as well. Both good shooters.

[jrmartin1964]

My first choice: Lyman No.311284. My second choice: Lyman No.311299. No.311284 (originally 308284) was designed for .30-40 Krag and .30-'03 (predecessor to .30-06), and No.311299 was originally intended for .303 British, but I have found them both to be an excellent choice for .30-'06. When first produced in 1906 (by John Barlow's Ideal Manufacturing Co.), No.308284... or "the Barlow bullet", as it was referred... was tested by the U.S. Ordnance Department for use by the Army for target practice, and was found superior to all other bullets tested.

In case you didn't already know, Lyman's No.308284 was the first gas-check design to be cataloged by Ideal (now Lyman).

Jim

[LAH]

Lots of good bullets for the '06 in that weight range. I'll be different & suggest the RCBS 30-180-FN. Mine is an NOE clone. I've never shot it in an inch but it has done 1 1/4" at a 100. It also kills stuff very well using 20 grains of 2400.