Home Forums Hunting & Shooting General Big Game How good of a big game bullet is the 30/125?

Keith, what is interesting is that 30/125's have been the most accurate weight I have shot in all my 30 cals.

300 WSM punches small bug holes.

one a 30/30.. one in the chamber and one in the mag.. works pretty darn good...

even tho you only get 2 shots before having to single feed it...

I didn't find them good enough to hold up to 06 full velocity...

Downloaded in an 06 for kids ( say 30 grains of 4198), then they work real good...

even had a couple of boys who I loaded for, take cow elk with them... while out hunting with Dad...

I've got some while perhaps not unique, definitely different sort of experience with 125 NBTs. We've been using them as a dispatch load on snared bears. Range is whatever we want it to be (but usually measured in feet), placement is whatever we want it to be, but never a head-shot because that's a skinning nightmare and necks aren't much better. Impact velocites are right at 3500 fps. Targets are abundant.

Results are consistent. There is seldom an exit; and not a single bear asked to be shot again. Its pretty much just over so fast that many don't even give a death bawl.

Sounds good to me.

We're winding them up to 3500 fps and using them on pest/bounty/bait beavers. Since that's what my partner typically has in his pocket they get used for dispatching the bears too.

Bud, if I had a bullet question I'd be asking you.

a 3500 fps 125 would be upsetting!

Interesting thread, caused me to think about loading up some 125 Hornady SST bullets I have laying around for my 30-06s which was one of the only kind I could find during the Obama ammo panic about the time I decided to start reloading. Never even opened the box so far.

I'm thinking I could use a starting load of 48 grains of H4895 that should give me somewhere around 2900 fps in a 22 inch barrel. Playing around with online recoil calculators, this should give you something like a 25 to 30% reduction in recoil instead of the 40 or 50% reduction in an all out youth load when compared to a normal 150 grain factory round. Should be enough powder to cycle my BAR autoloader and be very sweet shooting. I'm thinking it should exit behind the shoulder shots on little Carolina deer at 50 to 100 yards but will have to shoot one to see.

Mathman & Mule Deer,
Appreciate the input. I had not considered the time frame difference. The incident happened in 1998. However, I may have purchased those 180 BT’s many years prior.

That would be a great pig bullet in a 308.