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no you can't use .308
i see it available, a rather stupid expensive at $1.80pr but available.
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They are both 30 caliber but that’s about the only similarities. Even the 30 caliber bullets are very different. 308 is generally a pointed bullet and 30-30 is round. The cases are different in that 308 is rimless. The biggest difference is the pressure produced by 308 is at least 20,000 psi more than 30-30. The real answer to your question about shooting 308 through a 30-30 is, probably only once and very likely inclusive of an ER visit.
You spent all that time looking me up and throwing insults? I haven't spent 10 years studying guns and ammo. This is my first experience with this type of round, I'm learning and wanted to ask a question. If it upsets you so much, move on, others have replied politely to someone new to this type of gun/ammo.
There are probably 40 or more 30 caliber rifle cartridges. Rifle cartridges are pretty unique in the sense that they are similar and very different. Yes, I know a 10mm is 40 and a 9mm is 357 but even in those cases the names are very different and discernible. If you didn’t grow up around firearms and more narrowly rifles I could see how the dozens of 30 caliber rounds would be confusing. At least he had the sense to ask.
Without them there would no NES. Jack.
I understand the concept of "There's no stupid questions"......but there's a limit to that when someone who's been involved with guns for 10 years simply wouldn't pull up a picture of the two calibers and look at the striking differences between the two.
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Reading is much easier now than it was back when there was no internet, with 100,000 plus entries on any subject one might type in the search.......and there's pictures galore.@Uzi2, yeah i get short with people also. in my time here, i've read some seriously dumb shit ammo & reloading questions. some that challange all logic, make me laugh and shake my head. but at least they get asked and another fatality is avoided. when i started reloading, there was no internet to take the easy way out, you had to read...or talk with an old timer next time at the club. you had to seek out the guy who wouldn't laugh and shake his head, but give a good concise answer. but i still enjoy a chuckle now and then.
If you're gong to go apsh!t on a [admittedly basic] question, I'd use "Chamberings" instead of "calibers" as the book diameter of .30-30 bullets is .308.
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i never had a 30-30 rifle and never will - and also do not see what the fuss is about, it is just a question.If you're gong to go apsh!t on a [admittedly basic] question, I'd use "Chamberings" instead of "calibers" as the book diameter of .30-30 bullets is .308.
Yes, OP asked a basic question. But, better he ask, than have an oopsie.
I've been involved with guns for significantly more than 10 years. I still learn stuff. Hell, last summer I found a cartridge in a chambering I'd never heard of, .401 WCF in the mag of a Winchester .30-30 lever gun.
New-to-me cartridge...what's made YOU go, "Cool!"
Guy brought a 94 Winchester to me with "A bullet stuck in it," and asked me to help. Wrong cartridge had been stuffed into the loading gate, and was not in a mood to come out. Seems that .30-30 is not the same as .401 SLR This oldie was a new one on me. I don't count myself as an expert, but...
The .401 WCF did....
Congrats on the sweet score!
I guess I don't understand this. Is it that you don't hunt? Don't like lever action rifles?
