7-30 Waters by Federal, 120gr JSPBT, One Cartridge not a Box.

Description

One Cartridge, not a box: 7-30 Waters by Federal Cartridge Company, factory loaded using new Federal brass cases with “F C 7-30 WATERS” Head-Stamp and loaded with a 120 grain JSPBT (Jacketed Soft Point Boat-Tail) projectile.

History of the 7-30 Waters Cartridge:

The 7-30 Waters was designed by Ken Waters, who was a  writer of reloading articles for Shooting Times in the 1960s.

Ken designed the caliber in 1976 as a wildcat, reforming the 30-30 Winchester by extending the shoulder and necking down the mouth of the case to accept 7mm diameter projectiles.

This produced a faster velocity and fatter trajectory for the lever-action rifles of the day.U.S. Repeating Arms Company (the producers of Winchester rifles at the time) and Federal Cartridge Company experimented with the cartridge in 1982 by changing the shape of the case slightly and loading a 120 grain projectile.

The cartridge was introduced later that year.

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