plinking load 30 30

[hatcreek]

I read somewhere that a guy loaded 9gr of herco, in a 30 30 round, is this doable, I cast 170gr fn lead .309 gas check, and fire them in a Marlin 30a 30 30, do i need to put a gas check on the bullet since this would appear to be a pretty mild round? any help or advise would be great. Thanks HC

[jcwit]

I load a 113 grain cast bullet from a Lee mould #90362 in front of 12 grains of Trail Boss. Makes a fine plinking round with little change in the sights.

[btroj]

A 165 bullet with 16 gr of 2400 is my plinking load. It works, why mess with it?

[quilbilly]

I load a 113 grain cast bullet from a Lee mould #90362 in front of 12 grains of Trail Boss. Makes a fine plinking round with little change in the sights.

Same plinking load as mine. MV is around 1100 fps.

[hatcreek]

Hey guy's thanks for your input I'm going to give it a shot, no pun intended. HC



Better to fight for something than live for nothing.
George S. Patton

[RickinTN]

The Herco load should work well. Around 6 grains of Red Dot, or around 8 grains of Unique, or about 9 grains of Trail Boss will do about the same thing. I would use the gas check. I've not used the Herco load, but the others have worked well for me and others.
Good Luck,
Rick

[Jack Stanley]

Lots of ways to skin that "cat" , I've been known to use 700-X sometimes .

Jack

[Lonegun1894]

I use either 5.0grs Unique or 11.0grs Unique for plinking, just depends on what I am trying to accomplish. I have even been known to use 2.7grs of Unique for mouse fart loads with a 150-170gr boolit, but I usually go ahead and use the GCs and always size to .311" for my Marlin.

[kbstenberg]

I like bullsey 3gr (superlight) 800ish fps or 4gr lite load at 1000ish fps with a 3118 mold (PB) in soft lead. In the 30/30 Kevin

[TXGunNut]

My plinker is 8.5 Universal under a RD boolit, hits quite a bit lower than my Rx7 load but it's an easy adjustment. I don't have a PB mould so I'll keep on using GC's on my GC boolits.

[uscra112]

Substitute Blue Dot for 2400 - you'll find it is even more consistent.

[sargenv]

I like a 165 gr Flat base lead bullet with 8 gr of Trail Boss. No worry about double charging since 16 gr would overflow the case.. This one out of my 30-30 is just subsonic.. feels like a 22..

[flint_knapper]

I use hornady 308 100gr half jacket or speer 308 100gr plinker
over 8gr. of unique, a very polite load in winchester 94's

[Ruber]

I use a 170 gr gc design for silhouettes over some Win 748 with gas checks. I'll use some over 8 gr Blue Dot for a plinking load. I'll get about a two inch group at 50m on paper (the load with GCs and 748 will be under an inch comparably), so not the best to say the least, but for a plinking load it does what it's intended for...

Ps. I do leave them sized as dropped for the plinkers.

[mj2evans]

6.0g Unique and Lee 120g RN orginally from a 30M1 carbine mold group buy.

[Salmoneye]

.310"-311" round ball over 2gr of Red Dot...

Works well for me...

[helice]

with the light weight booltis 5 grains of just about any fast burning pistol powder will work well; PB, Red Dot, Green Dot, 700X, 231Winchester, Bullseye, These all work with the little 32 H&R Mag boolits. Should give 32-20 like velocities. They are lots of fun.

[Loudenboomer]

7 gr AA#5 and tumble lube a lyman 122 gr. More than a cat sneeze but less than a horse fart. loads of fun

[hatcreek]

Very interesting can't wait to load up some cat sneeze, shy of a horse fart, and maybe a mouse fart, thanks all. HC


No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
George S. Patton

[hatcreek]

Thats interesting would like to try this one, got my eye out on a .311 round ball mold from Lee, this sure is addicting. Thanks HC