Originally Posted by
sona
respectively out at 200 yards and with 0 at 100 yards those loads will be slowing down so badly that they will be anywhere from 4.8 to 7.5 inches low at 200 yards. This is with handloads and it would be impossible to buy any factory loads that would replicate close to those levels.
***Don't know where you got those figures, but they are not accurate and at 200 yards the 30-30 still has close to 1000 ft/lbs of energy, which is more than enough to humanely take any deer with a hit in the boiler room!