The .30 Remington cartridge was created in 1906 by Remington Arms. It was Remington's rimless answer to the popular .30-30 Winchester cartridge. Factory ammunition was produced until the late 1980s, but now it is a prospect for handloaders. Load data for the .30-30 Winchester can be used safely for the .30 Remington.

Background

Although the cartridge has dwindled into obscurity it lives on by being the parent case of the

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the 6.8mm Remington SPC and .224 Valkyrie cartridges. Unlike the .30-30, the .30 Remington can utilize standard pointed bullets rather than round nosed ones when used in rifles with box magazines ( Remington Model 8) and ones with special tubular magazines ( Remington Model 14). This gives it a possible advantage over the .30-30 cartridge which is most often chambered in

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rifles with standard tubular magazines (in which a conventional pointed bullet could lead to cartridges being ignited in the magazine tube by recoiling into a primer).

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Brief history of the .30 Remington

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Background

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