[William T. Watts]

I would like to use a 30/30 this fall hunting deer with my son if we draw a permit for the White River game refuge. I have a Marlin/Remington lever gun I've never used, I think factory ammunition is loaded down for the older rifles still in use, if I load above the factory 36,000 cup max I feel I still have a good margin of safety. I would be using Virgin W-W cases 170gr Partitions IMR4064, I feel the new rifle would probably be stronger than the Winchester rifle I had years ago.. I do have some Federal factory ammo to check velocities that I can use to try to say when its time to stop. I like to use a starret mic to measure the expansion over the web for factory ammunition and duplicate it with my handloads. I would like to achieve at least 2100FPS with a 20" barrel.. What do you think, is it Doable?? William

My wording was a bit awkward, I hope I smoothed it out!