FINALLY! 30-30 trailboss reloads

[GoodOlBoy]

So I finally get my stuff from midway Tuesday. Wednesday was my 12th wedding Anniversary so it was late in the day Wed when my wife had had enough of shopping with me, eating with me, etc and said I could go play. I loaded up 5 rounds of 170 grain laser cast with 2.2cc of trailboss in my lee classic loaders, and 5 rounds of 170 grain laser cast with 2.5cc of trailboss.

One big issue I had was static seemed to be a problem while I was loading. not enough that I was sparking but enough that those little smokeless powder doughnuts were jumpin like mexican jumping beans. I washed my hands, ran cold water and dried everything that was plastic that was being used and still. . . . . sheesh. The other issue was that the lees classic loaders do NOT like lead (particularly if it doesnt have a beveled base). It shaved a sliver of lead of of each bullet I loaded. I will be buying a lee universal expanding die, and probably a crimp die (since the classic loader doesn't crimp AT ALL), but other than that I am happy as a lark with performance.

see the pictures attached. The first should be the 2.2cc load on a 1x4 target out back of my house. Had about a 3 inch overall group from 25 yards or so, and had two almost touching (I blew chunks of wood off of this one). The second was 2.5cc of trailboss and shrunk considerably to about an inch and a quarter wide and 2 and a half or so tall. One pair touching, one pair almost touching.

This was shot from a old marlin 336 30-30 with microgroove rifling. I was standing without the gun braced on anything but me and with factory iron sights. all rounds were loaded with cci large rifle primers, remington peters brass, and 170grain lasercast lead bulelts (no gas checks)

GoodOlBoy