Hornady Interlock .308 170-grain JFP

by AaronB, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 13:10 (2 hours, 56 minutes ago)

Today I ran up to my local pusher's shop with a few bucks burning a hole in my pocket. I had in mind to get a box of Hornady Interlock 180-grain JSPs for reloading .30-06, but they didn't have any of those.

They did have, on the other hand, a box of 100 jacketed flat-point 170-grainers. "Well, I load for .30-30 too," I told myself, and got those. For $47.00. This is the garden-variety cup-and-core jacketed 170-grainer that .30-30s that have been loaded with for time out of mind, for almost half a Benjamin.

I'm in the wrong business. I should be swaging bullets.

-AaronB

Hornady Interlock .308 170-grain JFP

by Hoot @, Diversityville, Liberal-sota, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 13:48 (2 hours, 17 minutes ago) @ AaronB

Yep. It's getting to the point where (at least mentally) I reserve the jacketed bullets for "Special Occasions". I will gladly use them for hunting and grudgingly use then for sight-in for said hunting as well as 'things you just don't load cast for'. I mean, why go all high speed/low drag with the cartridge and then limit yourself to a couple thousand fps's with the bullet? All of this is quite silly of course as I must have something approaching 50k bullets squirreled away down in The Dungeon. :-P

Something I hadn't thought of.

by AaronB, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 15:23 (43 minutes ago) @ Hoot

I have quite a few good .30-cal cast bullets on hand.

I might even break out my Heavy Thirty mold and some gas checks.

-AaronB

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