30-30 load

[Captain Capsize]

I have a thousand Berry's copper plated 30 cal 110 grain bullets. I bought them to develop a cheap plinking and coyote load. Berry's recommends to not drive this bullet passed 1600 fps. I emailed them to ask why and did not get a reply so I am asking here. Does anyone have an answer?

I have tried 10 gr. of Unique and 20 gr. of 4198 both show pretty good groups at 100 yds. but with some fliers that are too far out to hunt with. The 4198 loads clock about 2,000 fps and I think the Unique loads were about 1,600-1800 fps.

[w30wcf]

Captain,
Try 8grs. of Unique. That will do around 1,450 f.p.s.

Good luck,
w30wcf

[runfiverun]

cause you'll strip off the thin layer of copper.
i just use that boolit in the 30 carbine and regular real cast boolits in the 30-30.

[jimkim]

8gr of Unique sounds about right. 6.0-7.0gr of Red Dot might do the trick too.

[NickSS]

Plated bullets have a very thin plating and are not real jacketed bullets. They are also swagged from soft lead. The plating will fail if driven too fast and result in poor accuracy and leading of your bore. Drop your charge some and you will probably get better accuracy

[WyrTwister]

I have a thousand Berry's copper plated 30 cal 110 grain bullets. I bought them to develop a cheap plinking and coyote load. Berry's recommends to not drive this bullet passed 1600 fps. I emailed them to ask why and did not get a reply so I am asking here. Does anyone have an answer?

I have tried 10 gr. of Unique and 20 gr. of 4198 both show pretty good groups at 100 yds. but with some fliers that are too far out to hunt with. The 4198 loads clock about 2,000 fps and I think the Unique loads were about 1,600-1800 fps.

I agree with the other posts , Drop the velocity until the fliers disappear .

God bless
Wyr

[Doc Highwall]

They are like Remington Golden 22's and should not be shot faster then the 22lr.

[dualsport]

Would that be like shooting a coyote with a fmj? Never done it, does a fmj drop a 'yote?

[Tony65x55]

Try 6 or 7 gr of Bullseye. I've been using it for many years in low power practice loads and it works very well. Did I mention it's cheap?

[O.S.O.K.]

I've used 10 Grains of Unique with good accuracy with cast boolits in the 30-30. Red Dot is another one to try - 8 grains.

[Slow Elk 45/70]

Yup, it is plated, not jacketed......keep them slow-1600fps...most folks use a hotter round for Yotes...I like RD's 165 at 1800fps for most of my shooting in my 30/30s kills pests to deer very well... if you want a lite boolit, try Lee's soup can at about 113gr for plinking and varmints 2 cavity mold is CHEAP.........JMHO

[jlchucker]

Yup. Keep them slow, shoot them all up, and don't buy any more. A good Lyman 311008 cast boolet, or the Lee soupcan at around 115 grains can be made to do the same thing and most likely even better. You'll lose nothing by keeping them slow and developing an accurate load for what you want to use them for. Slow and accurate boolets rarely bounce off the game they are intended for.

[Archer]

I've been using 6 gr's of Unique with a 110gr. JB
and getting good accuracy.

[Archer]

OOPS!
Mine are loaded with 6gr's of Bullseye, not Unique.

[Kaumheimer]

If you want to try a plated bullet go for the 150 gr Rainier over 16 gr 2400. Very accurate.