.30/30 Subsonic jacketed levergun loads?

[Deavis]

Anyone here got a pet jacketed .30/30 load for can use?

Rifle is a 16" Winchester 94 knock off (Ted Williams model 100).

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[Deavis]

Anyone?

 

[osprey]

Start with 9gr of trail boss and a 170gr bullet. Shoot across chrono and adjust powder charge down untill you get subsonic speeds. You always want to start a bit higher and work down to subsonic so you don't stick a bullet. 9 grs of TB should get you about 1250 fps to start. Good luck

 

[RVTECH]

12 grains of Unique is a great load with either the Speer 100 grain 'Plinkers' or a 110 Gr JRN or plated bullet.
With the 100 grain plinker they chrono at about 1700 FPS and are very accurate.

 

[osprey]

Also some good data here for 170 cast bullet

Lever Gun Performance Studies

Reloading Data for cast bullets, result of lever gun accuracy studies on cartridges: 357 Magnum, 41 Rem Mag, 44 S&W, 44 Russian, 44 Magnum, 444 Marlin, 45-70 Goverment, Pistol Powders, Large Capacity Rifle Cases

www.gmdr.com

 

[Certaindeaf]

Look up "the load", uses red dot powder.. 30-30 might be too small a .30 cal to use though.

 

[Xaevian]

Isn't 30-30 already subsonic? Sorry, just kidding. I got nothing.

 

[gmerkt]

Google, "reduced loads in .30-30" and you'll find lots of information on the subject. Down to and including sub-sonic.

 

[Legion489]

I was thinking of "the load" too. You can always buy a cartridge adapter for the .30-30 to shoot .32 ACP, .and I think, .32 Federal. That way you won't get your ammo confused.

Can't think of the guy's name off hand, took over from Harry Owen, a friend of mine, when Harry died, lives in Alaska and has ads in Backwoodsman and other mags. Good guy, I have bought quite a few adapters from him and never had a problem.

 

[Deavis]

Looking for bigger bullets though.... 170s perhaps