Originally Posted by
Roskoe
Obviously, the original load for this caliber was 30 grains (by volume) of black powder. I'm not sure if I would load black powder here, unless for some nostalgic reason, over smokeless. Create yourself a cleanup issue. There is abundant loading data for a wide variety of smokeless powders - including somereduced loads made for cast bullets.
The 30-30 was never loaded with anything other than smokeless. The 30-30 has a 1-12 twist where the .32 Special has 1-16 envisioned as a smokeless/BP rd less BP fouling with the 1-16"