The 30BR–Now King of the Hill in Score Shooting
by Joe Entrekin
The 30BR is not without its faults, but there are compelling reasons why it has quickly moved to the front of the field in Benchrest Score Shooting. First, the 30BR is very consistent and easy to tune. You don’t have to load at the range or constantly mess with seating depths or charge weights. Find a good load and run with it. Second, I am firmly convinced that the 30BR equals the 6PPC in inherent accuracy. It just plain shoots. Combine that with the potential scoring advantage you get with a bigger bullet hole, and you’ve got a winner. What’s the downside? Well, the extra recoil makes a 30BR gun harder to control than a 6PPC. But we’ve found that once people work out the right technique, they can master the recoil and eventually shoot better scores than they could with their PPCs.
Hey Al, isn’t a 100 yard score target exactly .25 inches from the center of the X dot to the outer line of the 10 ring? That’s greater than .243 but less than .308 so mathematically if a 6 hits the 10 ring .14 inches from the X it doesn’t break the X dot, if the 308 hits .14 inches from the X it still breaks the X. Advantage bigger bullet hole.
But in reality if the 30 had all of those disadvantages, why shoot the dang thing. Why because the bigger hole advantage over comes the disadvantages as from the article above.
