.30-06 copper recipes - favourite home loads

[Jagged77]

Post your favourite loads and recipes for .30-06 using copper / non - lead. Interesting to see what combinations are being used given how versatile the cartridge is.

Slow and heavy, fast and light?

I’ll start, usual caveats apply on using someone else’s data…

RP Brass (new) CCI 200, 57gr Elcho 17 with Fox 165gr classic hunter seated to 59.7mm
2900fps with Std dev 12

Trying some 148 yew tree and 150 Barnes TTSX next.

 

[Jagged77]

Results for Elcho 17 (RS60 / RE17) with 148gr Yew Tree. This load in .30-06 pretty much performed as well as it does in my .300WM.

Fantastic accuracy and speeds right up there. Also produced the cleanest cases after firing I’ve ever seen! Zero’d 1” high at 100 this will be flat out to 250.

 

[bullet chucker]

Will follow this thread with interest, have not used copper yet, and as they say' got all the gear and no idea'

BC.

 

[RH Somerset]

180gr TTSX at 2,750 using RS60.

Works well on everything from muntjac to wilderbeast.

I can look up the charge weight if anyone is interested.

 

[Brighty3006]

130 grain ttsx homeloads brilliant

 

[Jagged77]

130 grain ttsx homeloads brilliant

What powder are you using? Brilliant performing bullet, I use it in my .308

 

[User00057]

130 Gr TTSX N550 giving me 3090fps and group well. Very pleased with them

 

[Brighty3006]

Vihtavuori n140. 50 grains

 

[Nkawu]

175 grain Barnes LRX using 53.0 grains of N550 for 2750 fps. I haven’t had the opportunity to use them on game, but I have read good reports about terminal performance.

 

[Jagged77]

180gr TTSX at 2,750 using RS60.

Works well on everything from muntjac to wilderbeast.

I can look up the charge weight if anyone is interested.

Sounds a really effective load. Yes a charge weight would be interesting - RS60 seems to be an excellent choice for .30-06

 

[Matastrophe]

54.5grns of Ramshot Hunter, CCI BR2 primers, 165grn Hornady CX, seated 0.09, I'm going to try seating slightly deeper as so far it has tightened the groups significantly and I think the 0.115 might be the sweet spot to close up that horizontal spread

 

[User00057]

130 Gr TTSX N550 giving me 3090fps and group well. Very pleased with them

Just add I’m using 59 gr with this load and COL of 83.7 worked so didn’t chase more

 

[Matastrophe]

54.5grns of Ramshot Hunter, CCI BR2 primers, 165grn Hornady CX, seated 0.09, I'm going to try seating slightly deeper as so far it has tightened the groups significantly and I think the 0.115 might be the sweet spot to close up that horizontal spread

Just as a follow up to this, I shot a fallow buck with this, it was pretty effective but ploughed straight through. I also ended up putting a bullet into an 18 inch wide alder tree, it was pretty effective there as well, straight through. So not sure on the expansion of these at this point

 

[t10]

119gr Yewtree TLR
55gr n140
Hornady case
CCI lr primer
65thou jump
22” barrel

3075fps