Interesting thread here. Up until about 6 years ago my favorite 30-30 load was a 170 gr. Speer FN with 29 gr. of 3031 getting a little over 2000 FPS with great accuracy. Then I discovered 35.8 gr. of Leverevolution with a 170 gr. Hornady FP was even better with more velocity to boot, ( avg. 2260 FPS) and it's now my go-to load. 150 gr. load was a 150 gr. Sierra RN over 36.4 gr. of BL-C2 for about 2210 FPS which was about the best 150 gr. load in my Marlin 30-AS (economy model 336) but I don't even use that load anymore. My 30-30 only hunts the woods where I can rarely even see a deer past 100 yards. For more open areas I have suitably chambered bolt guns.. Although I did play around with the 160 gr. Hornady FTX's which were OK but not quite as accurate as I wanted and then figured why bother for the ranges I use a 30-30 at. The old school FP's and RN's work just fine up in the woods.
Last edited by 22250rem; 01/03/23.
