I've been thinking about picking up a Contender carbine barrel in .30-30 to load the Barnes 120gr TAC-TX bullet. It was originally designed for .300 BLK, but takes up enough space in the case that the 110gr actually works better. In a much larger volume case like the .30-30, that's not an issue. The maximum recommended impact velocity is around 2500 fps, but Barnes says even if it sheds a petal or four, the base will carry on penetrating. It expands down to ~1300 fps. Seems like it would be an almost ideal bullet for whitetail size animals if loaded in a .30-30 single shot (or AI version) with 19-23 inch barrel at somewhere in the 2500-2600 fps range. I don't own any other guns in .30-30, so I'm not worried about the tube mag thing.
Anyone around here done this?
