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Old 03-26-2024, 7:16pm   #12
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Originally Posted by Torqaholic View Post
The 30-30 can definitely be made to shoot well. It's what started me handloading. Advertised factory MOA is 4" (I think?) and mine wouldn't even do that. Was in college at the time in a statistics class for Manufacturing Engineering. Did a final paper presentation on improving the accuracy of that gun using handloads. Don't recall my grade for the paper but considering the lib teacher acted like he needed a bomb shelter as soon as I began talking about ballistics it probably could have been better Shrunk the group down to 1/4 the original size of the best factory load in the study
4MOA is still "minute of whitetail". Mine both shoot 2ish with preferred ammo... good enough for a 100+ year old design.
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