30-30 Win – 150 gr HP – Winchester (X30301) – 200 Rounds

Winchester introduced the 30-30 in 1895, and its Super-X line still carries the classic loads lever action hunters grew up with. This listing is Winchester Super-X 30-30 Win 150 grain hollow point ammo, MPN X30301, sold as a 200 round case. It suits deer and hog hunters who carry a lever gun in the timber, and camps where several rifles share the same cartridge.

Winchester rates this load at 2,390 fps with 1,902 ft-lbs of muzzle energy. The 150 grain jacketed hollow point opens quickly on impact, which suits deer and hogs at the close ranges where most 30-30 hunting happens. The lighter 150 grain weight gives a little more speed and a flatter trajectory than 170 grain loads, and its flat nose profile is the right shape for tubular magazines. This is hunting ammunition, not a practice or target round.

This ammunition fits rifles chambered in 30-30 Winchester, including the Winchester Model 94, Marlin 336, Henry Side Gate and Big Boy Steel, Mossberg 464, Savage 340, and single shot rifles such as the Thompson Center Encore. A common question is why lever action ammo uses flat or hollow nose bullets. In a tube magazine each bullet rests against the primer of the round ahead, so pointed tips are avoided unless they are soft polymer. Another common question is how to sight in a 30-30. Many hunters zero about 2 to 3 inches high at 100 yards so the bullet stays close to the aiming point out to around 150 yards.

Winchester X30301 is new production ammunition, not reloads, made in the USA. It uses reloadable brass cases with boxer primers and non-corrosive components. The case holds 10 boxes of 20 rounds for 200 total from one lot, which keeps every rifle in deer camp shooting the same load. It also gives you enough rounds to practice offhand and from shooting sticks, the way most woods shots are taken.