I'm looking for a good flat or round nose bullet, 150 or 170 grain weight area, with cannelure. What are you guys using?

I am about out of Nosler Solid base bullets and they don't make them anymore so I need to find a new pill to poke holes in deer with.

I like the hornady interbond in 150 or 170. I use them in the 30-30, 307 and 308 marlin express.

Any brand name bullet would be worth trying.
They are labeled 30-30 and therefore have the blunt nose and crimp ring. 'Cept for hornady's plastic point which I don't think we can buy yet. I'm using Sierra seconds at the moment, and when they get the crimp ring in the wrong place, well they crimp up OK without it.

I always liked the Speers because they have the best ballistic coefficients of the .308 FNs. Hornady's Web site says the gummy-tip bullets are avaiable to reloaders, but I haven't seen any yet.

I like the Speer Hot-Cor 150 gr Flat Soft Point. They shoot really good in my Marlin.

Just because it makes me think of days gone by I like the Rem/Pete's 150's and my Model 94. Buy bulk from Midway and use either IMR 3031, or H335, the ball is better.

I use either Speer 170's, Nosler Part. 170's and Montana bullets-180grn Hardcast.

Thanks all, I will look them up and try them. Hey Grizz, The Montana hardcast, are they lead without a copper jacket?

Berrey makes a 150gr Flat Nose copper plated bullet That when shot around 1800fps has proven accurate in a number of 30 Cal. rifles including the 30-30. They are a low cost, accurate bullet that yields low recoil and is just fun to shoot.It may not be prudent today to use such a bullet at this velocity for deer, but over 100 years ago lead bullets traveling at this speed were doing it with a lot of success. roger

The most accurate bullet in my son's 30-30 is the Nosler 170 grain Partition.
I just bought an older Marlin 336 Carbine in 30-30, and I'm using the same bullet.
30.5 grains of IMR-4895 is the powder charge, for both rifles.

Don

I use 150 gr speers in mine in front of 4198.

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Thanks all, I will look them up and try them. Hey Grizz, The Montana hardcast, are they lead without a copper jacket?

pure "hard-cast", brn around 22-no copper jacket. www.montanabulletworks.com

I've used 150 grn. hardcast on moose and penetrates as well but I like the heavier...just in case.

i but the bulk Rems from midway they work

Rem 170 grain?

I emailed nosler the other day about their 30-30 partition bullets and they returned my emai and in the letter they told me they are coming out with a 150 grain ballistic silvertip next year.

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Originally posted by 33806whelen:
I emailed nosler the other day about their 30-30 partition bullets and they returned my emai and in the letter they told me they are coming out with a 150 grain ballistic silvertip next year.

That's good info!

Thank you for the posting.

Don

That nosler balistic tip can you use it in a 30-30 win's tube magazine???

supposedly designed for the 30-30 I imagine it has a soft point so its safe in the tube feeds.

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Originally posted by 33806whelen:
I'm looking for a good flat or round nose bullet, 150 or 170 grain weight area, with cannelure. What are you guys using?

I am about out of Nosler Solid base bullets and they don't make them anymore so I need to find a new pill to poke holes in deer with.

I Still have a couple hundred Nosler flatbase
170gr bullets and when I finally use them up
I'll switch to the Nosler 170gr partition.

It's not like you really spend all that much on the projectiles relative to the other costs of hunting.

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