Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Deer loads for .30-06 with Hornady 165 SST bullet..............

Print Thread

Hop To

Deer loads for .30-06 with Hornady 165 SST bullet.............. #11777796 01/28/17
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 17,770 G gunswizard OP Campfire Ranger
OP gunswizard Campfire Ranger G Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 17,770	I bought a box of Hornady 165gr. SST bullets and want to develop a deer load, powders I have on hand are IMR 4064, IMR 4350, RL-15 and Varget. Using those powders what load(s) would you suggest?

GB1

Re: Deer loads for .30-06 with Hornady 165 SST bullet.............. gunswizard #11777911 01/28/17
Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 4,399 Corpus Christi,Texas baldhunter Campfire Tracker
baldhunter Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2009 Posts: 4,399 Corpus Christi,Texas	I'd start at 57.0grs of IMR-4350 and work your way up.All my 30-06 rifles shoot 58.5grs of IMR-4350 quite well. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~ As Bob Hagel would say"You should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everything goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong."Good words of wisdom...............

Re: Deer loads for .30-06 with Hornady 165 SST bullet.............. gunswizard #11777915 01/28/17
Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,461 az R roninflag Campfire Regular
roninflag Campfire Regular R Joined: Jun 2009 Posts: 1,461 az	I have used I4064, varget, and I-4350 ( not re-15); of the ones you have. all great. what rifle??

Re: Deer loads for .30-06 with Hornady 165 SST bullet.............. gunswizard #11777918 01/28/17
Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,226 fremont Campfire Regular
fremont Campfire Regular Joined: Sep 2006 Posts: 2,226	I would stick with IMR4350. I've been using that bullet with H4350 for years and see no reason to experiment further. Murphy was a grunt.

Re: Deer loads for .30-06 with Hornady 165 SST bullet.............. gunswizard #11778146 01/28/17
Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 17,770 G gunswizard OP Campfire Ranger
OP gunswizard Campfire Ranger G Joined: Feb 2010 Posts: 17,770	Pre'64 M/70 Winchester Featherweight.

IC B2

Re: Deer loads for .30-06 with Hornady 165 SST bullet.............. gunswizard #11778230 01/28/17
Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 17,760 Wyoming W WyoCoyoteHunter Campfire Ranger
WyoCoyoteHunter Campfire Ranger W Joined: Feb 2011 Posts: 17,760 Wyoming	I like I4350 also for my 06 with 165's.. Molon Labe

Re: Deer loads for .30-06 with Hornady 165 SST bullet.............. gunswizard #11778368 01/28/17
Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 623 Gone D Deflagrate Campfire Regular
Deflagrate Campfire Regular D Joined: Oct 2011 Posts: 623 Gone	I'd look at the Hodgdon website or call Hornady. http://www.hodgdonreloading.com/data/rifle Last edited by Deflagrate; 01/28/17.

Re: Deer loads for .30-06 with Hornady 165 SST bullet.............. gunswizard #11778530 01/28/17
Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 3,592 Nonya Dre Campfire Tracker
Dre Campfire Tracker Joined: Mar 2013 Posts: 3,592 Nonya	I've heard those bullets do a lot of damage. Not in a good way All of them do something better than the 30-06, but none of them do everything as well.

Moderated by RickBin

Link Copied to Clipboard

AX24

638 members (1badf350, 12344mag, 06hunter59, 10gaugemag, 1beaver_shooter, 10gaugeman, 74 invisible), 2,551 guests, and 1,289 robots.

Key: Admin, Global Mod, Mod

April
S	M	T	W	T	F	S
	1	2	3	4	5	6
7	8	9	10	11	12	13
14	15	16	17	18	19	20
21	22	23	24	25	26	27
28	29	30

Forum Statistics

Forums81

Topics1,190,687

Posts18,456,421

Members73,909

Most Online11,491
Jul 7th, 2023

Responsive Width:

PHP: 7.3.33 Page Time: 0.093s Queries: 14 (0.003s) Memory: 0.8207 MB (Peak: 0.8758 MB) Data Comp: Zlib Server Time: 2024-04-20 00:06:06 UTC
Valid HTML 5 and Valid CSS