30-30 subsonic info

[bladeracer]

For what it's worth, Rose was at the other block, 1500m down the valley with the cows, she heard nothing of the 30 rounds I fired. I was shooting SSW and she was SSE of me.

[in2anity]

For what it's worth, Rose was at the other block, 1500m down the valley with the cows, she heard nothing of the 30 rounds I fired. I was shooting SSW and she was SSE of me.

Rose being your better half?

[bladeracer]

[quote="bladeracer"For what it's worth, Rose was at the other block, 1500m down the valley with the cows, she heard nothing of the 30 rounds I fired. I was shooting SSW and she was SSE of me.[/quote

Rose being your better half?

Much more than half

[Gamerancher]

Thanks for going to the trouble of doing all of that work Blade, just to show that the load I suggested, ( 10gr ), worked. ( which I already knew from firing thousands of rounds of it )

[bladeracer]

Thanks for going to the trouble of doing all of that work Blade, just to show that the load I suggested, ( 10gr ), worked. ( which I already knew from firing thousands of rounds of it )

Thanks GR
You suggested 10gn behind "cast bullets" though, I haven't tried with cast yet, and you didn't specify a bullet weight. As I said, I didn't do any load development yet. My goal was not for something that simply "works", as any bullet on almost any charge will work. I was trying to find the charge weight that would stay subsonic, as that is what the OP needed, and also what I wanted. Both of these loads are subsonic, in my rifle, but the lighter bullet has less "boom" to it due to the much lower powder volume. You did pop back in later to mention that the load you suggested would certainly not be subsonic.

I stuck with jacketed bullets as I can't see any value for the OP messing about with commercial cast bullets, or casting his own, just to deal with one fox. Cast is my own preference though, so further testing will be with cast pure lead in both a very light 90gn bullet, and a heavy one for pounding steel, both still subsonic. Does your Win94 handle 200gn or 220gn cast bullets okay? I also want to see what the rifle can do with target bullets for outright accuracy as it shows some potential I think, and what sort of velocities can be made with light varmint bullets as well. But I'll be using the scope for further testing.

I think anybody now searching for ".30-30 subsonic info" should be confident of finding some useful starting data.