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02-24-2012, 08:19 AM
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I personally don't use premium ammo (unless you count handloads) for hunting. But if I WAS going to look into it I would look at Hornady. They have a very good rep. I do agree that premium ammo has it's place, but since I rarely hunt anything besides squirrel, rabbit, and whitetail I don't have a need for it.
GoodOlBoy
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(Moderator - Gear & Gadgets, Cowboy Action, SouthWest Regional, Small Game) GoodOlBoy@huntchat.com For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. - John 3:16 KJV Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry: for that shall abide with him of his labour the days of his life, which God giveth him under the sun. - Ecclesiastes 8:15 KJV "The gun has been called the great equalizer, meaning that a small person with a gun is equal to a large person, but it is a great equalizer in another way, too. It insures that the people are the equal of their government whenever that government forgets that it is servant and not master of the governed." - 40th President of the United States Ronald Reagan 1911-2004 
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03-03-2012, 10:16 AM
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"A single shot with a scope can put a 30-30 into another level and a premium bullet could well be an asset."
Only up to a point. You're limited by the strength of the brass. I have a Winchester M54, the bolt action rifle that finally morphed into the vaunted pre-64 Winchester M70. very accuracte and very strong. I figured i cuod soup up the old "Dirty Thirty" and have something a bit different. Didn't work out that way. get much over current max loading data and primer pocket get too loose, partial case head separations and other signs of way too high pressure. Come to thnk of it, I don't think I've shot a jacketed bullet of any type in any of my 30-30 rifles in probably 25 years. I shoot strictly cast bullets in my 30-30's. I can load the Lyman #311291 to 2000 FPS with good accuracy and they've downed 15 deer over the years. I took two other deer with the RCBS #30-180-FN, a 190 gr. bullet in my alloy. That one did some serious smack down. Bullets were made from Wheel weights with a bit of tin added to make mold fill out easier. Frankly, unless I was after a really big elk or a moose, I wouldn't even bother with a jacketed bullet but would consider a jacjeted or (GASP!) a premium if nasty critters also lived where I was hunting. If it makes you happy, have at it. Every man should be allowed to scratch his fleas in whatever manner he chooses. (I stole that line from Elmer eith BTW.) Paul B.
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#3
03-04-2012, 12:27 PM
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I don't know about .30-30 premium ammo but I had extremely good results with Federal's premium .223 Rem. 55-gr. soft points loaded with Sierra's GAMEKING bullets. I have yet to be able to work up a handload that provides significantly tighter groups or more consistent kills (on groundhogs). On the other hand, when my son got his CZ 550 .22-250, he got a couple of boxes of Winchester's "white box" 45-gr. factory rounds and they too gave exceptional accuracy. I have always understood that Winchester's "white box" ammo is their economy line. So, based on our very limited recent experience, I couldn't see that Federal's premium .223's gave any tighter or more consistent groups than Winchester "white box" .22-250's.
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