Hunting is what I am helping a friend reload for. I just met him at work and he wanted to know how to reload. I have been doing it for a little over 40 years. We have a bunch of range pickup brass. But so far I like the Federal cases, and the browning cases to reload. Interesting enough we did a ladder test on using a few ball powders, BLC-2 and Win 760. The 31.5 grains of Winchester 760 delivered some fabulous groups with 150 grain Winchester Power Points. We want to test some of the Hornady FTX bullets but ran out of time.
I have a pre 64 Win 3030. Great for close hunting in thick brush. Nice to see a video with modern components for an old gun. Another great video. Thankyou Gavin.
Well I have 2 presses, dies for 3 hand gun and a 30-30 die set. I have enough supplies for thousands of hand gun cartridges. Can't find anything for 30-30. Factory ammo, brass, projectile, etc. I'm just getting into reloading and love the content. I've only made 4 rounds so far but your channel has made me real comfortable about starting reloading. Thanks for the detailed content, suggestions and info.
Aw man...Love my Marlin 336...added the M-lok foregrip, trigger and new Boyd stock and it's become one of my favorite hog gun....it's become something that always gets picked up or commented on by friends or neighbors at the range...smooth and accurate...Love it...glad to see others are revisiting the old workhorse...
All my rifle is done on my Redding T7 all pistol is done on my Hornady AP. Just started reloading 30-30 about 6 months ago. Love your content. I use extreme bullets 150 gr. Haven’t seen any new Hornady brass in a long time.🇺🇸
When loading new brass I still use the resizing die. I run down just short of making contact with the case shoulder. With this the mouth expander will take care of any dinged cases and the decap pin will make sure the primer flash hole is clear. A I also recommend a firm crimp. I have had bullets pushed back into cases in a tubular magazine and powder comes out into the gun, it is not pretty.
Love the video! I used my Hornady AP reloading for across-the-course competition for both 200 yard and 300 yard stages for my AR Space gun. Worked amazingly well. Stuck with Forster single stage for 600 yard ammo. Love it!
I first started loading the 30-30 when that came out I loaded some of those I liked them but I've now went to the 140 monoflex bullet with that same exact powder loaded exactly to the specs I have a young son who use it for deer hunting and it works very well I've chronography all right at 2197!
Winchester brass, cci primers, lever Evo, and I'm mainly using the 160 ftx. The lightest load I tried gives me consistent 3/4 and less groups. Old marlin 336 does the job. Only thing I can suggest is a crimp. It'll prob help those numbers a little as well. Although you would think an already compressed load wouldn't move too much, and your velocities would have increased. I'd still use it when reducing the charges. I've been using the Hornady single stage, but I have transferred almost everything over to the Lee breechlock. Seems to load significantly more consistent, and I love the priming arm. My Lee turret press hasn't been introduced to the 30-30 yet.
I'm loading 150pcs of old brass over and over again for my 30-30. I'm loading old powder too come to think of it. I have been recently loading X-treme 150gr flat nose plated bullets over various IMR 4320 powder. Very Vintage 4320 powder. Three metal cans of it has been sitting in the corner of my powder file for maybe 3 or more decades. They have $8 price tags still on them! LOL I figure I'll use it up then move on to the next archived powder. My brass is various headstamps and has had hunting rounds, range rounds, cast linotype rounds, and even some 110 gr 30 carbine bullets loaded into it. I anneal my brass every 3rd or 4th firing to keep it from splitting. I do the same with 32 Winchester special and 32 Remington brass. I'm just cranking out range ammo on a Lee Loadmaster with an RCBS powder measure on a case operated rig. It works nice. Sometimes I load it on a single stage for short runs. I'm using just enough crimp to keep the bullets from setting back in the magazine. I love the loadmaster. Thirty years and hundreds of thousands of rounds and it still runs like new. I can pop off the turret and shell plate and everything in the set up is preserved. I'm set up for at least a dozen calibers with it.
Great video, can’t wait to see more. Just started reloading for 30/30 and 35 Remington on my T7 and can’t wait to shoot them. One thing with view I might change, the press light would be great and beneficial while loading but it put off one heck of a glare for video, my eyes adjusted and looked better when you switched it off for a second, could just be my old eyes though. Great videos, keep them up.
I'd like to see some accuracy loads being tested, I think 30-30 is underated for beginning (youth) and experienced hunters. I started out with the 30-30 and I've killed a ton of deer and thinking this season I'll be using the 30-30 just because I have one and it's been a good while since hunting with it. Also I'm wanting to reload for all my rifles but, one of my goals besides reloading for my expensive calibers (25-06 and 300sav) I want to improve the accuracy in the 30-30 and still be mag tube safe. I think it's totally possible to make a 200 yard round and be verry exceptionally tight grouping. My furthest white tail kill was about 300 yards with a marlin 336 shooting 150 grain corelokt.
Gavin, Ammunition for a tubular feed rifle should ALWAYS be crimped. Pressure from the tube spring and rifle recoil can move the bullets further into the cartridges, thus resulting in possible over pressure condition.
Even with polymer tip ,?but you bring up a good point i use 44.mag JHP and the bullet dose not touch the primer ,but never thought about them getting compresed
Got a cow elk this fall with my hand load this fall at 25yds and an antelope at a shade over 300yds. (Had to do some holdover). There was fair expansion on the elk, it was broadside and hit just behind the shoulder and struck no bones. She made it about 30 yards before dropping. The antelope was hit in the bottom of the heart and ran some distance before it fell. Expansion wasn’t that great, considering the distance was probably more than the cartridge and the projectile were designed for, is understandable. Definitely impressed with the performance
I love the 30-30 lever action it seems to be my favorite I recently purchased a bolt action 30-30 it seems the ammo that I had loaded for my lever action is not working the way that it should in my bolt action
One of my many gripes with progressive reloaders is the inability to make the crimp a separate step, unless you have a spare station in your press. I always read where the seating and crimping steps should not be combined as it affects accuracy. I have always wondered how true this is. Anyway, I went back to single stage reloading as my needs aren't all that great. But this is a good video, and I love the t-shirt!
I am hunting with 140° monoflex bullet from Hornady reloading either Remington brass once fired or federal and a 34.5 grain powder charge I've gone up to 34.8 velocities been 2197 with that same powder that you're using!!!
'Fun.tastic' video as usual GT!!.. Quite instructive indeed. I still keep my (20 - 25 yrs old) RCBS single stage presses, just for rifle ctg reloading + .45 LC first resizing step due to its (almost vestigial) rim. Mostly use my progressive presses for handgun / straight wall ctgs, LEE LM + Dillons, also over 20 yrs old. Not to give a bad rap to Hornady, BUT their handgun resizing dies' sizing ring (PVD TiN ??.. IDK), Ti Nitride coating (.357 & 9x19mm), worn out after just 20.000 rds. Replaced those w/ LEE's carbide ones in first position + Hdy's ones in 2nd position. Not a single issue after that. Many thanks & Blessings!!. 🤗🇺🇲🙏🙏🙏
Love your progressive, just wish I could afford it. I reload for plinking, hunting and varmint loads. Had used an old load for HP38 or HP380, cant remember. 130gr Speer hot core. My Hornady RN 150's are over IMR 3031. Recently bought some Leverlution powder which I can use for 30-30 Win and .308 Win apparently. Anxious to see what happens. Brass, usually range brass, but I got a hold of some Star Line.
34.8 grain is what I use, according to the Hornday book that’s 2200 fps. I use a lee single stage it takes forever to load with. 😂 Using corelock brass, CCI primers. 160 gr bullet. Shooting them out of a Marlin 336 so far so good. Deer rifle season starts in a week here in Oklahoma and I’m excited to try them out.
Im going to start relocating with the Lee also. Question, when you finish taping a new the bullet do you flip around the metal tub and hit the bullet down a little to crimp it? Sorry if I didn’t explain correctly, don’t know the names of the lee kit tools.
@ cool, i’d be more afraid to settling the primer off. Well now i know 😂. I know you mentioned it takes for ever but it’s a cool hobby at a low cost. thank you so much.
I'm a single stage guy, and I'm sure I'll stay that way for life. I have too many trust issues, and my needs for ammo are always personal and not for sale.
Was using 125gr flat nose hollow points using Viht N140 Now using 190gr SubX over Viht Tinstar on wild boar with sound mod and scoped 336. UK Just making a load for 160gr FTX over Hobson CFE223
Gavin great video. I would like to get back to some 30-30 round out of my lever action. Im down to my last 100 primers. Any advise to finding any. They seem harder to find than gold or diamonds. I find none available. Thanks
That half revolution on the Hornady presses bothers me, I get why they do it, but I like things lined up and having to cant the bullet and guide it would concern me, I don't like my fingers in the way when bringing the press up.
@Ultimatereloader I am new to rifle reloading. Using once fired brass and progressive press. Do I need to trim cases then resize? Trying to efficient and take advantage of my progressive press.
Gavin, you seem to be able to find reloading components as needed, how is that when I see a trickle here and a trickle there? Could you try some gas checked cast bullets the Henry?
Looks like a 20” barrel. With 37 gr and those velocities, I bet you are well over pressure. My 1973 M94 with a 20” bbl, exact same components except for WLR primers, came in at 2250 fps with 34.3 gr. Measured via a Magnetospeed. Per QL, that just below 42kpsi. Reading excess pressure signs on a 30-30 case/primer is very difficult.
Looks like fun for something like 3030 considering it's not really a long range round anyway so progressive would save a bunch of time! I don't think I'll be doing progressive loading with something like .243 considering accuracy may become an issue with that one, but it definitely opens up some new options I haven't really considered before!
I have Savage Axis II 308w, can I load the 30-30 bullets in the 308w Brass, the idea is to have fun in the range not hunting, as for hunting I am using Hornady A-Max 168 and BTHP 168? Thank you
shit Bro! you’re boogie as hell lol, i load 30.30 with one of those Lee out in the field kits. i got crazy in a week and loaded over 300 rounds with multiple powders. they all go bang, i haven’t really paid attention to its ballistics. i loaded them just just below max charge, on the load data. next loads will be 170 grs. great video, and cool set up. another great caliber that has killed so much game in this country. keep up the great content. 🇺🇸😎🤌🏽💪🏽🙏🏽
That's funny you must be low on large rifle primers as well.. Using WOLF. How compressed is that load? It does seem rather spicy for a 160gr 30-30.. any room for more in the way of powder and safe velocity?
The light on the press is very vright and makes the video hard to see. I could see better and it would be better if you turned it off when filming from a distance
Did you have issues with bulged case necks? I had several issues loading to max with 37.0. I had awesome results today with 33.3 gr in both a Marlin 336 and a 14” TC Contender pistol.
If you are using a roll crimp, it might be rolling too much, or you might have some cases that are trimmed too long. Under these conditions, the roll crimp goes beyond its normal depth into the cannelure creating a high force that causes the shell to collapse in length, thus bulging it. I have a friend who did this on both 300AAC and 5.56 x 45. My preference is a factory crimp (collet style) such as those manufactured by Lee Precision.
@@Engineman120 At what stage does the neck bulge? Does it happen with all cartridges? Are you using Lee dies for all stages or a mix of manufacturers? Does it bulge if you reduce the load? Have you verified the diameters of all the bullets in the lot (Had a friend who once had .243 bullets mixed in a box of .223 as it came from the manufacturer. He did not have any .243 guns or components.) Have you checked the ID's of the necks after sizing? Did you chamfer the neck ID's? My thoughts are if the bullet seating die does not have a roll crimp feature, then something is making a high bullet insertion force that is causing the bulge. I would not expect powder compression to have sufficient force to bulge the neck. You might want to check the dies for possible debris accumulation.
@@LL-pd9dg So I used Lee full length sizing (no bumping of the shoulder evident by shoulder measurement comparator), Lee bullet seating die, and the Lee factory crimp die. I honestly did not measure inner neck diameter. Even the last batch I had that did bulge necks was 36.4 gr with 5 or 6 of 50 rounds loaded having the issue. Seemed to have more of them with the max recommended of 37.0 gr. I made a few rounds recently that were not compressed and there were issues of bulged necks. I would have to do further testing to see and maybe further measurements.
Hunting is what I am helping a friend reload for. I just met him at work and he wanted to know how to reload. I have been doing it for a little over 40 years.
We have a bunch of range pickup brass. But so far I like the Federal cases, and the browning cases to reload.
Interesting enough we did a ladder test on using a few ball powders, BLC-2 and Win 760.
The 31.5 grains of Winchester 760 delivered some fabulous groups with 150 grain Winchester Power Points.
We want to test some of the Hornady FTX bullets but ran out of time.
I have a pre 64 Win 3030. Great for close hunting in thick brush. Nice to see a video with modern components for an old gun. Another great video. Thankyou Gavin.
Well I have 2 presses, dies for 3 hand gun and a 30-30 die set. I have enough supplies for thousands of hand gun cartridges. Can't find anything for 30-30. Factory ammo, brass, projectile, etc. I'm just getting into reloading and love the content. I've only made 4 rounds so far but your channel has made me real comfortable about starting reloading. Thanks for the detailed content, suggestions and info.
I love the 30-30 win. My favorite plinker. Marlin 336
Yeeeeah!
Aw man...Love my Marlin 336...added the M-lok foregrip, trigger and new Boyd stock and it's become one of my favorite hog gun....it's become something that always gets picked up or commented on by friends or neighbors at the range...smooth and accurate...Love it...glad to see others are revisiting the old workhorse...
You are Awesome! I've been watching you for a while now. Thank you!
All my rifle is done on my Redding T7 all pistol is done on my Hornady AP. Just started reloading 30-30 about 6 months ago. Love your content. I use extreme bullets 150 gr. Haven’t seen any new Hornady brass in a long time.🇺🇸
When loading new brass I still use the resizing die. I run down just short of making contact with the case shoulder. With this the mouth expander will take care of any dinged cases and the decap pin will make sure the primer flash hole is clear. A I also recommend a firm crimp. I have had bullets pushed back into cases in a tubular magazine and powder comes out into the gun, it is not pretty.
Love the video! I used my Hornady AP reloading for across-the-course competition for both 200 yard and 300 yard stages for my AR Space gun. Worked amazingly well. Stuck with Forster single stage for 600 yard ammo. Love it!
I first started loading the 30-30 when that came out I loaded some of those I liked them but I've now went to the 140 monoflex bullet with that same exact powder loaded exactly to the specs I have a young son who use it for deer hunting and it works very well I've chronography all right at 2197!
Winchester brass, cci primers, lever Evo, and I'm mainly using the 160 ftx. The lightest load I tried gives me consistent 3/4 and less groups. Old marlin 336 does the job. Only thing I can suggest is a crimp. It'll prob help those numbers a little as well. Although you would think an already compressed load wouldn't move too much, and your velocities would have increased. I'd still use it when reducing the charges. I've been using the Hornady single stage, but I have transferred almost everything over to the Lee breechlock. Seems to load significantly more consistent, and I love the priming arm. My Lee turret press hasn't been introduced to the 30-30 yet.
Love to see the 30/30 coming back
I'm loading 150pcs of old brass over and over again for my 30-30. I'm loading old powder too come to think of it. I have been recently loading X-treme 150gr flat nose plated bullets over various IMR 4320 powder. Very Vintage 4320 powder. Three metal cans of it has been sitting in the corner of my powder file for maybe 3 or more decades. They have $8 price tags still on them! LOL I figure I'll use it up then move on to the next archived powder. My brass is various headstamps and has had hunting rounds, range rounds, cast linotype rounds, and even some 110 gr 30 carbine bullets loaded into it. I anneal my brass every 3rd or 4th firing to keep it from splitting. I do the same with 32 Winchester special and 32 Remington brass. I'm just cranking out range ammo on a Lee Loadmaster with an RCBS powder measure on a case operated rig. It works nice. Sometimes I load it on a single stage for short runs. I'm using just enough crimp to keep the bullets from setting back in the magazine. I love the loadmaster. Thirty years and hundreds of thousands of rounds and it still runs like new. I can pop off the turret and shell plate and everything in the set up is preserved. I'm set up for at least a dozen calibers with it.
Great video, can’t wait to see more. Just started reloading for 30/30 and 35 Remington on my T7 and can’t wait to shoot them. One thing with view I might change, the press light would be great and beneficial while loading but it put off one heck of a glare for video, my eyes adjusted and looked better when you switched it off for a second, could just be my old eyes though. Great videos, keep them up.
I'd like to see some accuracy loads being tested, I think 30-30 is underated for beginning (youth) and experienced hunters. I started out with the 30-30 and I've killed a ton of deer and thinking this season I'll be using the 30-30 just because I have one and it's been a good while since hunting with it. Also I'm wanting to reload for all my rifles but, one of my goals besides reloading for my expensive calibers (25-06 and 300sav) I want to improve the accuracy in the 30-30 and still be mag tube safe. I think it's totally possible to make a 200 yard round and be verry exceptionally tight grouping. My furthest white tail kill was about 300 yards with a marlin 336 shooting 150 grain corelokt.
Really can’t wait to invest in reloading. 30-30 is such a cool round, hunting whitetail this coming fall!
The press light is killing it.
I love this series - keep em' coming!!!! I wanna see what kind of velocities you can get out of this gun.
Did you see the chronograph part knocking on the door of 2500 ft./s!
@@Ultimatereloader yes, that’s why I’m interested - I’ve shot sierra 110 grains but never chronographed them.
Gavin, Ammunition for a tubular feed rifle should ALWAYS be crimped. Pressure from the tube spring and rifle recoil can move the bullets further into the cartridges, thus resulting in possible over pressure condition.
Ya I caught that to lol,that velocity was all over the place to ,but that powder is not what I use it's not accurate for me.any powder but that.
Even with polymer tip ,?but you bring up a good point i use 44.mag JHP and the bullet dose not touch the primer ,but never thought about them getting compresed
well he did also not notice anything wrong when he was getting 22 hornet velocities from those 55 grain 223 a month or so ago too.
Got a cow elk this fall with my hand load this fall at 25yds and an antelope at a shade over 300yds. (Had to do some holdover). There was fair expansion on the elk, it was broadside and hit just behind the shoulder and struck no bones. She made it about 30 yards before dropping. The antelope was hit in the bottom of the heart and ran some distance before it fell. Expansion wasn’t that great, considering the distance was probably more than the cartridge and the projectile were designed for, is understandable. Definitely impressed with the performance
Any chance we can get some hornady subx content? I feel like 30/30 is having a big comeback yet again. Love the channel!
I love the 30-30 lever action it seems to be my favorite I recently purchased a bolt action 30-30 it seems the ammo that I had loaded for my lever action is not working the way that it should in my bolt action
You’ve answered my question about reloading the flex tip ammo.. if there was a special crimping set up
One of my many gripes with progressive reloaders is the inability to make the crimp a separate step, unless you have a spare station in your press. I always read where the seating and crimping steps should not be combined as it affects accuracy. I have always wondered how true this is. Anyway, I went back to single stage reloading as my needs aren't all that great. But this is a good video, and I love the t-shirt!
Great video. That would be a nice setup for 223 or any AR platform where you blow through a lot of ammo
Yep!
Great video what would you use for deer hunting load for 170 gr round nose single stage thanks
I am hunting with 140° monoflex bullet from Hornady reloading either Remington brass once fired or federal and a 34.5 grain powder charge I've gone up to 34.8 velocities been 2197 with that same powder that you're using!!!
A Lee collet sizer in the first station and a Lee factory crimp last... I'm guessing the ES/SD would plummet.
Interested in a comparison...
'Fun.tastic' video as usual GT!!..
Quite instructive indeed. I still keep my (20 - 25 yrs old) RCBS single stage presses, just for rifle ctg reloading + .45 LC first resizing step due to its (almost vestigial) rim. Mostly use my progressive presses for handgun / straight wall ctgs, LEE LM + Dillons, also over 20 yrs old. Not to give a bad rap to Hornady, BUT their handgun resizing dies' sizing ring (PVD TiN ??.. IDK), Ti Nitride coating (.357 & 9x19mm), worn out after just 20.000 rds. Replaced those w/ LEE's carbide ones in first position + Hdy's ones in 2nd position. Not a single issue after that.
Many thanks & Blessings!!.
🤗🇺🇲🙏🙏🙏
Love your progressive, just wish I could afford it.
I reload for plinking, hunting and varmint loads. Had used an old load for HP38 or HP380, cant remember. 130gr Speer hot core. My Hornady RN 150's are over IMR 3031. Recently bought some Leverlution powder which I can use for 30-30 Win and .308 Win apparently. Anxious to see what happens.
Brass, usually range brass, but I got a hold of some Star Line.
Just now loading some 110 gr ftx Hornady ballistics tip with 29.5 gr of IMR 3031 .
These will be for my daughter to hunt with.low recoil and accurate.
I like the model 336 Marlin.
Have mine on XL750 ,sierra 150 pro hunter, 37 grs leverevolution , don’t have any way to check ftp but good preformance, R95 Rossi
I load 150gr Sierra's with CFE223 to roughly 2300fps. Does fine for deer
34.8 grain is what I use, according to the Hornday book that’s 2200 fps. I use a lee single stage it takes forever to load with. 😂 Using corelock brass, CCI primers. 160 gr bullet. Shooting them out of a Marlin 336 so far so good. Deer rifle season starts in a week here in Oklahoma and I’m excited to try them out.
Im going to start relocating with the Lee also. Question, when you finish taping a new the bullet do you flip around the metal tub and hit the bullet down a little to crimp it? Sorry if I didn’t explain correctly, don’t know the names of the lee kit tools.
@ yes you do but do it lightly! It’s very easy to make the brass swell and not chamber. I made that mistake.
@ cool, i’d be more afraid to settling the primer off. Well now i know 😂.
I know you mentioned it takes for ever but it’s a cool hobby at a low cost. thank you so much.
Need a different seater stem for those ftx bullet heads.
I have an old crimping die by Lyman and always e do an extra step to crimp it would be great in a progressive press
Have you heard if anybody using the Hornady technology with the Ackley improved cases?
I'm a single stage guy, and I'm sure I'll stay that way for life. I have too many trust issues, and my needs for ammo are always personal and not for sale.
Would love to see a recipe for some subsonic 175gr sux x bullets!
Was using 125gr flat nose hollow points using Viht N140
Now using 190gr SubX over Viht Tinstar on wild boar with sound mod and scoped 336. UK
Just making a load for 160gr FTX over Hobson CFE223
Gavin great video. I would like to get back to some 30-30 round out of my lever action. Im down to my last 100 primers. Any advise to finding any. They seem harder to find than gold or diamonds. I find none available. Thanks
That half turn feature of that press is sorta a pain when loading longer rounds.
That half revolution on the Hornady presses bothers me, I get why they do it, but I like things lined up and having to cant the bullet and guide it would concern me, I don't like my fingers in the way when bringing the press up.
@Ultimatereloader I am new to rifle reloading. Using once fired brass and progressive press. Do I need to trim cases then resize? Trying to efficient and take advantage of my progressive press.
Gavin, you seem to be able to find reloading components as needed, how is that when I see a trickle here and a trickle there? Could you try some gas checked cast bullets the Henry?
I have a Question. Why does no one use a Speer 308 130 grain semi pointed bullet in the 30-30. Always heavy 150 or 170 gr. bullets.
Fun fun fun!!🤟🏽🤘🏼🤟🏽
Looks like a 20” barrel. With 37 gr and those velocities, I bet you are well over pressure.
My 1973 M94 with a 20” bbl, exact same components except for WLR primers, came in at 2250 fps with 34.3 gr. Measured via a Magnetospeed. Per QL, that just below 42kpsi.
Reading excess pressure signs on a 30-30 case/primer is very difficult.
Looks like fun for something like 3030 considering it's not really a long range round anyway so progressive would save a bunch of time! I don't think I'll be doing progressive loading with something like .243 considering accuracy may become an issue with that one, but it definitely opens up some new options I haven't really considered before!
I have Savage Axis II 308w, can I load the 30-30 bullets in the 308w Brass, the idea is to have fun in the range not hunting, as for hunting I am using Hornady A-Max 168 and BTHP 168?
Thank you
shit Bro! you’re boogie as hell lol, i load 30.30 with one of those Lee out in the field kits. i got crazy in a week and loaded over 300 rounds with multiple powders. they all go bang, i haven’t really paid attention to its ballistics. i loaded them just just below max charge, on the load data. next loads will be 170 grs. great video, and cool set up. another great caliber that has killed so much game in this country. keep up the great content. 🇺🇸😎🤌🏽💪🏽🙏🏽
Can you turn off the press light when filming the intro? Seen this a lot on this channel lately.
That's funny you must be low on large rifle primers as well.. Using WOLF. How compressed is that load? It does seem rather spicy for a 160gr 30-30.. any room for more in the way of powder and safe velocity?
Save your leverevolution for 6arc. Nevermind, Gavin never runs out of powder
6 ARC- good idea!
Can I use cfe223 powser with the hornady 150 grain interlock RN for my 30-30?
Is this brass shorter tha normal for the flex tip bullet?
No, the Hornady brass is the same length as standard 30-30 brass. It works fine with this bullet or with other traditional 30-30 bullets.
I know the 44 magnum brass that is flex tip is shorter.
I haven’t seen a new box of factory 30-30 here in over a year.
Yikes, that's too bad :(
The light on the press is very vright and makes the video hard to see. I could see better and it would be better if you turned it off when filming from a distance
Did you have issues with bulged case necks? I had several issues loading to max with 37.0. I had awesome results today with 33.3 gr in both a Marlin 336 and a 14” TC Contender pistol.
If you are using a roll crimp, it might be rolling too much, or you might have some cases that are trimmed too long. Under these conditions, the roll crimp goes beyond its normal depth into the cannelure creating a high force that causes the shell to collapse in length, thus bulging it. I have a friend who did this on both 300AAC and 5.56 x 45. My preference is a factory crimp (collet style) such as those manufactured by Lee Precision.
@@LL-pd9dg VERY wise / comprehensive comment!!..🥇
@@LL-pd9dg I actually did use the Lee Factory Crimp die. Was using Hornady brass also, once fired leverevolution rounds actually.
@@Engineman120 At what stage does the neck bulge? Does it happen with all cartridges? Are you using Lee dies for all stages or a mix of manufacturers? Does it bulge if you reduce the load? Have you verified the diameters of all the bullets in the lot (Had a friend who once had .243 bullets mixed in a box of .223 as it came from the manufacturer. He did not have any .243 guns or components.) Have you checked the ID's of the necks after sizing? Did you chamfer the neck ID's? My thoughts are if the bullet seating die does not have a roll crimp feature, then something is making a high bullet insertion force that is causing the bulge. I would not expect powder compression to have sufficient force to bulge the neck. You might want to check the dies for possible debris accumulation.
@@LL-pd9dg So I used Lee full length sizing (no bumping of the shoulder evident by shoulder measurement comparator), Lee bullet seating die, and the Lee factory crimp die. I honestly did not measure inner neck diameter. Even the last batch I had that did bulge necks was 36.4 gr with 5 or 6 of 50 rounds loaded having the issue. Seemed to have more of them with the max recommended of 37.0 gr. I made a few rounds recently that were not compressed and there were issues of bulged necks. I would have to do further testing to see and maybe further measurements.
I'd love to see a Browning BLR (223) rebarreled or rebored to 300 Blackout.
"Suppressed Weapons Systems" makes one that is integrally suppressed.
Is 37gr of leverevolution safe for my older 1964 model 95? I noticed it was max in hornaday loading data.
I would work your way up just to be sure!
Thank you
Dude, where r u finding all of these components??
I have a original 1964 winchester model 95 30-30 . What is the max load for this gun?
Oh my goodness
How accurate can you expect this powder charger to be?
Usually +/- 0.1 grain, DEPENDING on the powder
Gavin, can you turn off the press light when you aren't actually loading? It's distracting, and washes out the press.
that can will be quieter if you switch it to a flat cap. The anchor end caps are pretty much a net negative.
Good grief, look at all that flex.
to bad that the light is overexposing the press.
I still shoot 30-30
NEF Handy Rifle, 150gr Remington Bronze Point, IMR 4320, and a CCI 200. Devastating on deer. Do not use in lever action/tube magazines.
Please group these at 100 meters and report back.
1:58 Hodgdon says max load is 35.5 gr. You say 37. What's happening here?
Don't quite get the tee shirt. Sorry
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