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Brian Pfleuger · October 30, 2012, 04:04 PM

I can't add much except to say that a Hornady rep gave me a similar warning about shooting their 90gr .308 handgun bullets in a .30-06. He didn't say it would damage anything, just that I would effectively have bird shot rather than a bullet.

October 30, 2012, 04:04 PM	#2
Brian Pfleuger Moderator Emeritus Join Date: June 25, 2008 Location: Austin, CO Posts: 19,578	I can't add much except to say that a Hornady rep gave me a similar warning about shooting their 90gr .308 handgun bullets in a .30-06. He didn't say it would damage anything, just that I would effectively have bird shot rather than a bullet. __________________ Nobody plans to screw up their lives... ...they just don't plan not to. -Andy Stanley