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I found this case at an area popular with locals to shoot. What happened to this 30/30 case. It looks to me it went off out of battery! :shock: Is it posable for a lever to fire out of battery?

The case is shown next to a regular 30/30 case for reference
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Looks like it was fired in a 30-06 chamber or something. Deffinately not fired out of battery in a 30-30. It would have blown if it were out of battery that far.
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Looks like it was fired in an 06 chamber and got fireformed.
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Could have been fired out of battery, but my guess is someone fired a .30-30 in a rifle chambered for something else. Had the action been that far open it should have ruptured the side of the case too. Maybe they fired it in a .30-06.
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That's funny guys! We all posted at the same time, with the same answer! :D
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Post by lever-4-life »

Come to think of it there were a few .303 british cases near it...
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mm93, that is funny, 'cause as I went to answer I found all your answers already there.

It might take two steps to resize that back to .30-30.
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That will do it.
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It had to have been fired in a gun chambered for a rimmed cartridge as the rim of the 30-30 would not fit under the extractor or boltface of a gun made for a rimless cartridge like the '06, etc. My guess is that the dope fired it in a 30-40 Krag or maybe a 303 British. Either way, we have some real dummies out there. (i do recall I may have been guilty of that) :D ------------Sixgun
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I was thinking .303 or .30-40 but the same thing. Not much of a mystery...
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Post by J Miller »

Look close at the shoulder, it was fired in a 303 Brit chamber.

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My dime is on it being fired in Mosin-Nagant, 7.62x54R.
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Many summers ago a friend of mine was teaching hunter and gun safety classes in AZ. One of the class segments was to always use the correct ammo for the gun.

To illustrate what would happen if the wrong ammo was used we went out to the desert and made some boo boos. We shot .22 LR in .22 Mag chambers, and 30-30 in 303 British. Both of us were pretty conservative in our guns so these were about the only thing we had to switch out.

That is why I said that case was fired in a 303 Brit chamber. Been there, done that. Besides if you stood a 303 case up besides a 30-30 case it would be obvious.

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Post by Ray Newman »

As J Miller alluded to, "operator error" which when dealing w/ firearms can be dangerous....
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Post by JReed »

Yep .303Brit. OOps.
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Once fired 7.62X54R on the right with .303brit for ref.
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Most definately 30-30 fired out of a .303
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JReed wrote:Once fired 7.62X54R on the right with .303brit for ref.
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You used that designation jus to confuse us, huh? :lol: :lol:
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Post by H_Talon »

I have a contender re-chambered in 30 GNR and gary reeder
wildcat ... it's a blown out case with just enough neck to hold a bullet ...

it might be one of those ... looks like it ...

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Post by RSY »

Sixgun wrote:It had to have been fired in a gun chambered for a rimmed cartridge as the rim of the 30-30 would not fit under the extractor or boltface of a gun made for a rimless cartridge like the '06, etc.
Phewww! Thank goodness for a logical, thought-out answer! You other guys talking about the '06 were starting to worry me. :lol:

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