Does anyone have experience shooting light bullets in their 30-30? I shoot light bullets in my Marlin .22 magnum for the chickens and pigs and the heaverier slugs for turkeys and rams. I get lost in complicated sight adjustments , so the different impact of the light slugs allows me a 6 O'clock hold close and dead on, on rams. Has anyone tried this with the 30-30? I was thinking 125grain slugs for the close targets and 170s for the rams.

Hello glen ring, I shoot 110 round nose carbine bullets at chickens and pigs with almost no change in elevation (maybe a couple of clicks on the Marble tang sight) then for the turkeys and rams I use a 150 gr Speer bullets.

I do not have to make any sight changes to shoot turkeys from pigs and it only takes a total of eight clicks (one full turn on the Marble's sight) from chickens to rams.

I will tell you that since the 110 bullets do not have canelures none of my loads are crimped and I load them through the magazine one at a time. I do advice not crimping your loads unless you load them through the magazine like I do one at a time.

After I use up my large supply of 110 carbine bullets I will either be using 125 for the first two or three distances or I may use 150's for all four.

I do not like to give loads over the Internet so if you want to know the powder load I use send me a PM. To qualify my experience I will tell you I share the Cowboy LA NRA Open record with 76X80

Thank you sir, as always your advice on this post is most welcome by me and I'm sure the majority of users. PM is on the way.