30-06 ?

[Jager1]

The Federal 215M is a magnum primer and a 210 is all you should need for a 30-06 load from what I've found in my minimal reloading experience.

 

[SJB358]

Craig, I would run magnum primers with the 760, being a ball powder, but that is just me. I bet either would work fine, but I would prefer the magnum primers for hunting I think. Just to be totally sure of ignition. I have been running CCI250's in the 35 Whelen for years now and can't find any good reason they won't work for you.

I would bet after the barrel smooths out some, there won't be much that won't shoot well in your 30-06. Show us a picture when you get it up and running.

 

[Ryan46]

I will say this, since RL-17 came on the market and I tried it, I have never looked back in using anything else in my Win. M70 Featherweight .30-06. This is the true king of velocity powder with the 150gr Ballistic Tips or Accubonds. 60.0grs of this powder gives an average of 3080fps over my Chrony. It will shoot sub-one inch gps all day long so long as I give it a proper barrel cool down. Yeah, it is a little over book max and I get 4 or 5 reloads from Winchester brass. I use CCI BR II primers.

Happy Shooting
Ryan46

 

[trsmith1818]

I have been using H4350 57.5 grs with AB/BT for years. SUB MOA all day if I do my job. I have taken numerous game with these loads

 

[joelkdouglas]

I have a question. Picking up my new to me mod 70 ss fwt 30-06 tomorrow and was planning to try some 150 ttsx with h4350 or imr4350 which I have some of both with we cases. This thread has been very informative and I'm thinking of trying the ttsx with w760 instead based on some of the recommendations above. What primers do you all suggest with the 760? I have both fed 210m and 215m primers. With past 30-06 rifles I've always used 165 or 180 gr bullets, but I thought I would run some 150s in this one to see what it does. If the 760 doesn't work I also have a decent supply of

H and imr 4350
RL 17
RL 22
Varget

And about 500 165 gr hornady interlocks and a bunch of 165 accubonds and the original sciroccos.

Something is bound to work : )

Craig

This thread was originally about IMR4350, which my rifle likes fine.

Recently I stumbled across a good load of 59.8 grains H4350 with 150ABs. Didn't know if that might be a help. When my IMR4350 runs out I'll be replacing it with H4350.

 

[PJGunner]

Many years back when I got my first 30-06 (1956?) my pet load was 4895 and the 150 gr. Sierra spitzer flat base bullet. (They did not call them Pro-Hunters way back then.) The Lyman manual showed 51.0 gr. as the starting load. (Note that 51.0 gr. is now considered a maximum load in most, if not all manuals. Back then, the Lyman manual was about the only game in town. If there was another manual, I did not know about it.
I used to buy 4895 in a brown paper bag weighed out ny the gun shop whee I bought my powder. The gun shop would place a note in the bag saying, "Use data for 4320, or use data for 3031, Sometimes it was 4064 data. Probably was the reason for tht too high start load in that manual. When the milsurp version ran out DuPont made it so one set of data fit all. I settled with 49.0 gr. and the Sierra bullet. Dunno what the velocity was but it killed der very nicely and was decently accurate. One time a few years back I decided to trace down the history of 4895 but never found out all that much. IIRC, most of the IMR powders were developed around 1937. But no mention of 4895. I have copies of th American Rifleman from 1936 to the present day but only a few in the 1936/37 period which might have had the info on that powder.
Sometime around 1971, I decided that he 150 gr. Sierra was too destructive on meat and switched to the 180 gr. Sierra Pro-Hunters and never looked back. I used the 165 gr. Pro-Hunters in my .308. Fast forward to about 5 years ago now and I loaded up that pet load with the 150 gr. bullet in my 30-06 (Same J.C. Higgins M50 the load was originally work up in.) just to satisfy my curiosity as to what velocity was with that load and the load proved to be too hot. :shock: DuPont had stopped making the IMR powders and they're made by another company in Canada IIRC. Dunno what they're doing different but it does seem to me that current IMR 4895 is somewhat faster burning, at least in my rifle than when DuPont made it. As my load as two full grains below the current posted maximum, I didn't see the need to do a work up. Never did find out what that original load delevered in velocity.
I still use a lot of 4895, either IMR or H in my cast bullet shooting though. Great stuff for that type shooting.
Paul B.

 

[Capt Craig]

Thanks for the input guys and I defintely did not mean to hijack the thread here. Just had enough time this past weekend to mount the rings/scope and install an Ernie trigger spring, but no time to load anything. I was going through my ancient stash of .308 cal bullets and found 200 ct Horn 165 spbt bullets and have both 100 150 ttsx and AB, so I'm going to load some up and go shoot to see how it does. I'm defintely going to try either IMR or H4350 with the 165s and maybe will try it with the 150s to see how it does. I will let you guys know how it goes.

Craig

 

[Oldtrader3]

The ancient recipe for IMR 4350 is 57.5 grains of IMR 4350. 165 grain bullet and I use BR-2 primer. This recipe for the .30-06 has been around since I starting loading 50 years ago.