Cat sneeze 30-06 loads

[CEDaytonaRydr]

I also thought I'd mention that they do make 32 ACP inserts for some 30 caliber rifles. (definitely make them for 30-06)

It's not as time-consuming as making your own but not as fun either. Just thought I'd mention it...

[brettkeating]

Ballistics/caliber/chambering etc. for 30-06 are pretty similar to my Arisaka 7.7x58mm Type 99's, I should think about trying something along these lines myself. I don't have trail boss, but I have the next best thing, which is VV N32C Tin Star. I've never let my kids shoot these because they can be brutal on the shoulder with regular loads.

[CGT80]

13 grains of red dot in a 30-06 with a 150 jword gave me 1400 fps. Trail boss and 150 jwords gave me 1200 fps. I now only shoot my own cast 180 fp plain base in the 30-06 and 30-30. I am using 9.6 grains of herco shotgun powder for both rifles. Boolits are lubed with Cred to 0.311". I get 1300 fps from the 30-30 in my early 70's win 94 lever gun. It has the short barrel. I used this load in the 30-30 to tie for fist place in a local silhouette match out to 100 yards, last month. I pegged 5 out of 10 chickens at 100, 8 chickens at 50, 8 pigs at 85, and 8 turkeys at 100 yards. It is a light recoiling load with much less noise than a full power load.

Red dot works well, also. I used 6.0 grains of red dot under a 150 plain base round nose cast boolit in 30-30 and I ran the same boolit in the 30-06. I shoot out to 165 yards with these light to mid loads. Many people will go even lighter on the boolit, even below 100 grains.

There is a wealth of info on these types of loads over on the castboolits forum. We just kind of scratch the surface here on calguns.

Tonight I powder coated some of the 30 cal boolits and others to see how they perform.