Might purchase a Harris/Lee CTL 312-160-2R for use in overbored .30 cal rifles, including a couple of tube-mag lever actions.
This is a pointed bullet, and I understand it will not feed from tube magazines, at least not in some rifles. For softcast, I can easily put a 1/10 - 1/8" meplat on the bullet nose by running it through my Lyman 45 size/lube machine, set up with a flat-top punch. Been doing this with other bullets and and it works nicely.
Question: will the Lee bullet thus modified feed and chamber out of tubular magazines, specifically the Marlin 336 and Win 94? Or would I be better off looking for an oversize version of the more traditional flat-nose design such as Lyman 311041?
Thanks.