Ok

How would this work in a 30 30 single shot .

https://www.midsouthshooterssupply....oint308-diameter-125-grain-sst-100-count

Work sure,work well I'd want a bigger bullet. Not to go all Magnumitis Goatkiller on ya Frankie but a SD of only 185 on a 125 grain match jacketed bullet over 2500 fps sounds Grenadish. Reading the comments it's made for .300 Blk so I know if you pushed it bad things would happen.

Was just a thought . With a 3030 imo best to just sticks with flat point bullets . Get a different gun for longer range. Lol

Try the 130 gr ballistic tips or the Barnes 110 gr TTSX if you want to hot rod your 30 30. But like Dave said, the very low SD of lightweight bullets may mean you won't get an exit.

I don't reload , I just never read any thing about 3030 and pointed bullets .

Be honest , my self I don't wanna shoot
a 3030 past 150. To easy to just pick up a better gun and go.

Try the Hornady 160 Ftx in that 30/30 spendy but a legit 250 yard deer killer.

Have thought about the 140s. Also

Also thought trying the ones for 357 in my rifle

Well, it's a Hornady so it'd work one way sometimes and then another other times. Ha.

The pointy bullets are popular for single shot 30/30 pistol loaders. I have some here that came with a 30/30 Contender pistol. Only plinked with them so far. I do load an 130gr Speer flat point for 30/30. It is impressive like no other 30/30 load I've ever tried.

I think thats a good choice, I use the (no longer available) 125 gr Sierra hp in my mod 94. I believe the higher velocity that you can get with that bullet adds to the expansion. At any rate I have killed a few with that gun and they mostly dropped there, I sometimes would recover the bullet just under the skin on the opposite side and it mushroomed well. I dont like a hunting bullet to just zip thru without using its energy

Also, you could use that in a lever if you just had one round in the chamber and one in the tube

It would work great! The SST isn't a varmint bullet. a 30-30 isn't going to push it past 2500 fps enough to make a difference if at all depending on load.

I have a Thompson Center 30-30 bull barrel single shot that i load 125 gr Nozler Ballistic Tips, using Lever Evolution powder and a mag primer. Killed several hogs and deer with it. Shot paper out past 300 yds, just for fun. I have shot 125 gr SST out of a 300 blk pistol I bought from Trailertrash. Very accurate, but did not connect with a deer this year. I say try it, I think you will really like it.

My boy and I shoot 125 gr BTs in 308s.. using its starting velocity charges. Never a problem killing deer. I think SSTs are similar pills.

These are straight up deer slayers. If you shoot a deer with one and can't find a blood trail, call Stevie Wonder to find it.

I bet a pointed bullet in a 357max would work good.

My old 1967 JM Marlin 30-30 LOVES 150gr Barnes wide hollow points on top of Leverevolution powder. . Very near a clover-leaf printer…not everytime, but easily MOA.
I try to outfit my leverguns with the best scope I can afford, with most having Kahles scopes on them. But the old 30-30 shoots so stinking well with a cheap as crap Simmon’s scope…if it ain’t broke don’t fix it!

Also, several of my 30-30’s like the 170grn flat point Boolits I cast, powder coat, & size.
If any of y’all want to try some out, I’ll make you up a test batch from wheelweight lead (better penetration) or very soft lead that mushrooms well.

Butch

The 130 grain is a good bullet too. Little better S.D. numbers.

A Barnes 125 hot-rodded in a single shot 30-30 would be nasty.
On the gel-block tests I’ve done with the Barnes 125’s turned up (or most copper solid type bullets), instead of mushrooming…the front detaches and throws fliying saw blades while the remaining rearward section punches on through.

If you want to heat some up and see what they do on gel blocks, hit me up and we’ll try to get together and see what they do. I’ll learned a crapload about bullets impacts, expansion rates, bullets that totally disintegrate (blow up about 4-6” in). I won’t go into it too much, but see is believing. The “accepted” mushroom rates and bullet performances aren’t all correct, and I’ll leave it at that.
I’d dig seeing what your souped up 30-30 loads would do if you want to try them on some reusable gel blocks.
(I don’t have the crazy expensive one time use pig-fat blocks as us by most manufacturers…just some reusable ones that work pretty darn good)

-Butch

A sierra 125 grain prohunter out of a single shot 3030 would be interesting.

Ain't never played with a 30-30 single shot. But 120's are hell out of a 7-30 waters