30-30 ftx and lvr

[kielbasavw]

Doing my first loads of 30-30 with these 160gr ftx bullets. Ill be going to burro canyon tomorrow to shoot em up.
i currently started from 34 to 35.5 which is hogdon max. I thought i read hornady has 36gr max? I dont have a book with ftx bullets, and cant find any other data online.

What do you guys load em at with this combo?

[kielbasavw]

I read some posts on other forums, 37 is max from hornady.

What loads you guys shoot? I may go up to 36. For now

[50 Shooter]

Always safest to start out with the min loading and working up from there. Look for pressure signs as you go up, if you see flattend primers, have hard extractions... stop and back off. Back your load off a grain or two to be on the safe side.

[kielbasavw]

Yes, thats obvious. I just wanted to know if what i remember reading a while back is true. And what others use as their load..

[50 Shooter]

Hornady doesn't list them on their website? Try www.loadswap.com they have thousands of loads for different bullets.

[50 Shooter]

LS shows 28.5grs of 4895 for 2050 fps, fed 210 primer.

[50 Shooter]

From Google-fu.

These are MAX loads.
Lever Revolution 35.5 grs.
4895 28.9grs
TAC 29.7 grs.
H335 29.2 grs.
RL-15 29.8 grs.
AAC 2520 31.7 grs
W748 31.5 grs
BLC2 33.3 grs.

[Bastard]

the 8th edition Hornady book shows starting at 27.7 & max at 37.0

[kielbasavw]

Wow that low huh. Thanks.

[kielbasavw]

34.8grs of lvr was the #.
4 shots @ 50yrds

[bigbossman]

[kielbasavw]

35gr and up, the groups started to spread, and quite a bit. Havent seen changes so drastic before.

[kielbasavw]

This was the load i came up with last year. 37gr Lvr, 150gr Flat nose sierra