The .30-30, my all-time favorite rifle caliber, has limited factory loads available because the vast majority of the rifles out there have tubular magazines and are lever guns, with relatively weak actions. The 150 and 170 grain loads will handle 99% of what the .30-30 is used for - short range deer shooting. I've taken larger with it, bear and once a caribou in Labrador, but it is a deer rifle for the most part.
If you handload, you can use spitzer bullets, one in the chamber and one in the magazine. Someone, Speer I think, makes a flat point 130 grain bullet for the .30-30. I've played with a lot of different loads, but nothing is going to make the .30-30 into a long range cartridge. One load with Reloader 15 loads I've worked with stretches a 170 grain bullet's effective range to MAYBE 200 yards on a real good day, and that's about the absolute maximum. Lever guns aren't noted for their inherent accuracy, so a high velocity 110 grain load won't make the gun into a long range varmint gun.
My $.02.
DC
If you handload, you can use spitzer bullets, one in the chamber and one in the magazine. Someone, Speer I think, makes a flat point 130 grain bullet for the .30-30. I've played with a lot of different loads, but nothing is going to make the .30-30 into a long range cartridge. One load with Reloader 15 loads I've worked with stretches a 170 grain bullet's effective range to MAYBE 200 yards on a real good day, and that's about the absolute maximum. Lever guns aren't noted for their inherent accuracy, so a high velocity 110 grain load won't make the gun into a long range varmint gun.
My $.02.
DC