Hornady Interlock .308 170-grain JFP
Today I ran up to my local pusher's shop with a few bucks burning a hole in my pocket. I had in mind to get a box of Hornady Interlock 180-grain JSPs for reloading .30-06, but they didn't have any of those.
They did have, on the other hand, a box of 100 jacketed flat-point 170-grainers. "Well, I load for .30-30 too," I told myself, and got those. For $47.00. This is the garden-variety cup-and-core jacketed 170-grainer that .30-30s that have been loaded with for time out of mind, for almost half a Benjamin.
I'm in the wrong business. I should be swaging bullets.
-AaronB
Hornady Interlock .308 170-grain JFP
by Hoot 
, Diversityville, Liberal-sota, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 13:48 (6 hours, 28 minutes ago) @ AaronB
Yep. It's getting to the point where (at least mentally) I reserve the jacketed bullets for "Special Occasions". I will gladly use them for hunting and grudgingly use then for sight-in for said hunting as well as 'things you just don't load cast for'. I mean, why go all high speed/low drag with the cartridge and then limit yourself to a couple thousand fps's with the bullet? All of this is quite silly of course as I must have something approaching 50k bullets squirreled away down in The Dungeon. 
Something I hadn't thought of.
I have quite a few good .30-cal cast bullets on hand.
I might even break out my Heavy Thirty mold and some gas checks.
-AaronB
Something I hadn't thought of.
by Paul 
, Tuesday, March 31, 2026, 19:28 (48 minutes ago) @ AaronB
You've got gas checks?
I'm seriously low on same, and only have .30 and .22. Not that I get many chances to use them. Was looking for 45 and 30 a while back, but nothing was available. Need to poke around and see what's available I guess. It's good to see powder and primers back, but STICKER SHOCK on the availability tax... long gone are the penny per primer days.