I just ordered a winchester model 70 super grade 30/06. I am wanting to shoot the barnes tsx through this rig.

What grain bullet?


I shoot a 168gr SMK with 48gr IMR4895, it's a light load, but accurate for my '06's
J

168 TSX, 60 gr RL19, F210 primer shoots lights out in mine.

LWD

Try 150gr Accubonds with 58gr of IMR-4350.

My "pet load".
48.5 grains of black cocker spaniel with
180 grain bulldog hollow point.
Sure makes the fur fly!


Sorry I just couldn't restrain any longer.

muck

Work up TTSX 130 grain bullets to the 53 grains of Varget range. It should produce somewhere close on 3150 when you get good accuracy and pressure should be reasonably low. They whack the snot out of Bambi. They shoot very flat and into <1 inch without a lot of trouble. I have run them up to 3250 and started to get flattened primers there

I am not so sure I'd be OK with shooting Mbogo with them like Saeed, or the big North American bears for that matter, but anything short of that and I'm OK with the deal. They're a hell of a bullet.

My go to powder for 150gr bullets in the '06 used to be IMR 4350 but I have been having such consistant results with RL19 recommended by the Nosler reloading manual that I am thinking about changing over. RL19 maxes out at around 101% load density with a 150gr. bullet. Max load for IMR 4350 with a 150gr. bullet is also a slightly compressed load using the IMR/Hodgdon data. Can't complain about either one!!!

I'm using 58.5gr/H-4350 165gr TSX.

61 grains R22 behind 180 grain bullets works!

My TSX 30/06 load uses the 165 gr. TSX over Varget and Federal 210M primers for 3 shot groups in the 1 inch or a little less range at 100 yards.

I use the same load with Barnes Banded Solids and they shoot to the same place as the TSXs. I also use the same load with other 165 and 168 gr. bullets and though they don't shoot to the same place as the Barnes bullets, the load is quite accurate with them as well.

For a hunting load, I'm using 55gr H4350 pushing 180gr Swift A Frames, great results, Waidmannsheil, Dom.

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Work up TTSX 130 grain bullets

Like miles58 we are beginning to develop loads for the 130 gr Barnes TTSX. Appear very promising; fast, flat shooting, mimimum recoil and the terminal effects very positive with little carcas damage as compared to 150 gr. conventional bullets at this velocity. Since these are monometal bullet the shape is similar to vanila-flavored Cup & Core 150's. This bullet can easily walk into the one-step quicker powder range than the standard 4350's in the .30/06 Sprg.

We've tried H-4895 & VVN140 with good results. I'm sure there's others that work as well.

Like Dom states above; the all time standard classic for the .30/06 Sprg. load is 55.0 grs. H or IMR-4350 with a 180 gr. - I use the Hornady 180 gr. RN. May not be the speediest but you'll certainly impress yourself with the One Ragged Hole Syndrome - Plunks 'em.

The 180 grain Nosler Parition with 55 grains of IMR 4350 powder worked like a charm for me in Namibia - every shot dropped the creature, whether it was a Springbok or a Zebra, very quickly. The video proof of this is in my hunt report - the Kudu and Oryx went down like someone had flipped a switch.

thank you all for the info! I cant wait to get my hands on the new supergrade!!!!! I hope she will shoot.

My pet load is the Federal Premium 180 grain Nosler Partition. It's so good I only handload my practice ammo.

I'm using the 180 grain TSX and TTSX as well as the 168 grain TTSX. I use the same charge that I worked up to using the 180 grain bullets of 57.8 grains of IMR-4831.

Ken....