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07 April 2006, 20:44

poletax

Any Of You Guys Heard Of?........

.30 Cody Express.
Vinton W. Knechtges made one up and named it after his granpa,Mike Cody. Mike was one of the top salesman for Federal Cartridge.
I love .30's and am interested in the Cody.

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07 April 2006, 21:49

ramrod340

Don't have a clue what it is built on. Loadtech lists the case. 123.2grs water capacity. case is 2.86" and COL is 3.67. The show a max pressure af 47125.

Take all of that with a large grain of salt.

Midway lists the die. Calls it a 30-416 Rigby

As usual just my $.02
Paul K

07 April 2006, 22:12

Fjold

From the Reload Bench
http://www.reloadbench.com/cartridges/w30cody.html
30 Cody Express Reloading Data
Bullet (grs.)____Powder / (grs.)_MV
110 HP ________H4831 / 95.0__4050
125 SP ________H4831 / 92.0__4000
150 SP ________H4831 / 85.0__3900
168 HP ________H4831 / 82.0__3850

Frank

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07 April 2006, 22:20

JLarsson

And, if you didn't click on Frank's excellent link, it is based on the .416 Rigby. Cool.

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07 April 2006, 22:53

ramrod340

While his link is good it looses a lot of credibility when it's main reference is to a super high energy that is over stated by over 3000lbft. The 168@3850 actually has more energy.

As usual just my $.02
Paul K

08 April 2006, 00:14

poletax

Zippy cartridge.
I found a 250 grain load at 3900 fps/8445 me.

Do you guys think this would handle Groundhawgs okay?

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08 April 2006, 09:15

Norman Conquest

Sounds like it has some similarities to Ross Seyfreid's 30-416 Ackley Imp.40Deg.I toyed with that idea a few years ago but put on the back burner due to the cost of the case form dies.It may still happen but if so I intend to see if one could use 338 Lapua brass + possibly neck down in one stage.Any ideas on this?

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