330 grain 308 diameter bullet

[RCS]

I found this 330 gr 30 cal bullet in a box of old cartridges some years ago. The bullet is soft point and I sectioned a 30-06 case to show this bullet. Could it have been a custon hunting bullet or a factory bullet to test heavy recoil ? It would be interesting to find out ?

[joem]

Headstamp?? I've not seen anything like that. What's the overall length?

[RCS]

joem, I found the "bullet" not the whole cartridge, I just took a 30-06 case and cut it open to show how the bullet looked

[raymeketa]

Back in the 1960s, Remington loaded some 280 grain SP loads for the Army to be used in recoil tests. They look like ordinary hunting loads until you pull a bullet. The headstamp is REM-UMC 30-06 SPRG. I've never seen any with a 330 grain bullet but maybe they made them too?

Ray

[Tuna]

Wow for a bullet that long it sure would require a faster rate of twist in the barrel it was fired in then the standard 1 in 10 just to stabilize it.

[raymeketa]

The Remington cartridges were intended only for recoil tests of some sort, so they wouldn't care about the accuracy and/or twist rate. The bullet that RCS has could have been used for hunting but I doubt if it would have been loaded in a 30-06. Some of the wildcat cartridges of the 1960s, such as the Condor, used very heavy bullets for their caliber. The .257 Condor, for example, used a 5 1/2 twist rate.

[Don in SC]

Could be for one of the early magnum loads, There were some very heavy loads used to hunt Dangerous Game in Africa turn of the century up thru the 60'/70's.

[RCS]

A few years ago, I posted these photos of the 330 gr 30 caliber bullet on another website/forum. I was told that in one of Ernest Hemingway's books, they talked about hunting big cats with a 30-06 loaded with 320 gr bullets !

[madsenshooter]

How long is the 330? It'd be interesting to calculate the twist that would be needed to stabilize it. The 280 might be ok in a 1/10, I have some load data for 250s.

[RCS]

This 330 gr bullet is 1 13/16 inches long, if you subtract the round nose area it is 1 1/2 inches long