can ultra/handi handle new "magnum" type loads?

[Jeff-B]

i've noticed a few reloaders on here saying that hindi/ultra like low pressure loads .does that mean that i shouldn't use the new "magnum" type loads from federal ,hornady and such? im thinking of getting the 30-06 ultra and i thought the extra kick from the "mags" would be nice if i ever run up on one of the elk straying into va from west va ,or extra confidence if i went for bear.  
   love this site and forum inparticular...thanks greybeard

[R.W.Dale]

Any animal you shoot with a 30-06 will never be able to tell weither or not you were using light mag ammo or el cheap-o winchester.

[cwlongshot]

Current production H&R/ NEF firearms are safe to fire, with any commercially available load. Having said that, I have seen some open upon firing those particular loads.
  My personal 30-06 Ultra was bought used. They guy who owned it before, shot it ONCE and it opened upon firing. So he brought it right back to the store for a refund. The store would not give him his money back, they only offered to return it to the factory. I happened to be there, so we struck a deal, and I bought it for a good price!
 I, returned it to the factory. When it returned, they said what I told you in my opening sentence.    
It has never done this to me. BUT I don't fire over the counter loadings, I load my own. I shoot 55 grs of IMR4350 behind a Speer 165 RN. I haven't chronographed that load in that rifle.
That exact load has been my fathers recipe  for the 30/06 for as long as I can remember. It has never failed to bring home the venison.

CW

[EVOC ONE]

Well said, Krochus!

EVOC ONE

[bajabill]

I have never heard or read that the hot load factory ammo exceed SAAMI pressures for a 30-06.  Technically, it could be done (but dont do it) because the 30-06 is limited in the specification world to lower pressures than the 270 or 25-06.  But, it think the ammo makers are using powders or combinations of powders that are formulated to keep the pressure near max for a longer time period, compared to the powders used in typical factory loads or available to reloaders.  This technique can be applied to all cartrides, look up and down the reloading tables and see how velocity is not directly related to peak pressure for variuos powders.  All powders have a sweet spot in application (expansion ratio, bullet wieght, etc) that will produce max velocity for all other things being equal.  Most important is how accuracy is affected considering normal variances in the ammo production, or temperature, or your guns barrel harmonics and most importantly the flinch  :lol: