My friends son uses a T/C Encore carbine in 30-30 and they load up 125gr. Sierra Pro Hunters. I’ll ask him specifics about the load and performance, but it seems like the perfect little tree-stand gun.
Not Sierra, or any HPBT, but a kid out of Little Rock has came to the family camp over in Arkansas with a Contender rifle in 30-30, he has shot a couple deer over the years with the 125gr Nosler ballistic tip, I recall no problems, just seeing dead deer with exits.
