I'm getting ready to load some 125gr Sierra Spitzers for my NEF single shot 30/30 rifle.
I was wondering if anyone here might have any experience with that round.
I am interested with Accuracy not speed. Or both if fast is accurate.
Any suggestions?
41bob

Used to load 135 gr Hornady SP's for a Savage Mod 340. Never loaded the 125 gr SP's.

Lyman 48th edition has 41.0 gr of WW748 as the maximum and most accurate loading for the 125 gr Sierra bullet.

The best load I have come up with for the 125g bullet in a Savage bolt action is, 37.5g of H335 Winchester brass and LR primer. I have been using the Remington 125g PSP. Velosity is 2560 out of a 22" barrel.

This load will shoot less than 1" groups at 100 yards using a 1.5-4.5x32 Bushnell.

I often load 150gr spitzers in my marlin 336 with 35grs of Varget and a light crimp with outstanding results, good for about 2200+fps or so...DO NOT load more than one in the chamber and one in the magazine with spitzers and a tubular magazine or else your asking for a whole heap of trouble... but your shooting a single shot so you should be fine!

Loaded the 130 Speer H.P. for 340 Sav. a few years ago with 3031. Seems like I was running about 32-33 gr, and found it very accurate. Probably ran about 2400 or so but never tested it. Also shot well in a 94 shooting it as a single shot.
Good luck! Paul

A buddy of mine almost 30 years ago had a heavy varmint benchrest single shot that he had rebarreled in .30 cal and chose to get it chambered for .30-30 thinking the recoil would be much lighter off the bench, that the case volume would lead to more consistent loads at modest powder charges than .308 for modest ranges out to 200 yards. I only saw the initial firings and it seemed to work well but I had to move before he got things perfected so I never heard the final result. We most of us in the club loaded 30 calibers in Sierra match Spitzer or BT Spitzer in those days usually 165 grain. No reason why it shouldn't be capable of accuracy.

Not I told this already...so think of this as a re-run.

Friend of mine gave me a feed bag of .308 spitzers FMJ...several thousnad bullets, even after sorting out the nasty looking ones. Think there were swept up after a armory fire and were "pop offs". Same guy kept me alive for two months by leaving out of date "K-Rations" at my dorm room door until I got the $ togeter for a meal ticket.

Sorted out, they did pretty well. Only rifle at first was an old H&R "topper"...wacked the loads together with a Lee Loader on the dorm room floor (playing music loud, smacking the loader to the bass to keep neighbors from wondering what I was up to...Big Brother and the Holding Company was good for a couple of boxes of bullets easy).

Later on a Glenfeld 30-30 (believe it was a model 30...1/2 magazine, and a pretty ugly impressed checkering job on the stock...which included animal heads).

Same FMJ 147gr. bullets worked fine in it as well..as a 2-shooter, one in the chamber and one in the tube.


If I selected the bullets carefully visually...then took them to Chem. lab to weight check them...and to physics lab to measure their diameters...they shot surprisingly small groups.