30-30 Ackley Improved

Hey guys - Considering a new project this summer involving a lever, and was toying with getting it converted to ackley improved.

It's a pretty cheap mod at the gunsmiths, and by all accounts it seems to really pep up the 30-30. Anyone ever tried this cartridge, or heard anything? the good, the bad the ugly? Whatcha think?

out of curiosity, how much does improving a 30-30 case raise performance? i guess my main concern would be feeding issues.

have you considered doing a 7-30 waters?

DAMMIT TAS - now you got me thinking about the savage too - Everytime I ask about this someone else comes up with another great idea that sounds awesome. NO MORE PROJECTS! Actually that sounds pretty good - I'll put that down as project #5

The 307 is a nice round - it's another that i'm very interested in. But this project is focused around the lightest shortest carrying rifle I can make in a lever - the 307 requires the 'big bore' action and I can't get the 16 inch barrel in that. And due to our #$&^$# gun laws - I can BUY a 16 inch barrel if it comes from the original manufacturer that way - but i can't cut a barrel down below 18.5.

The AI improvement in the 30-30 gives about 300 fps increase dakota. A few i've talked to shooting out of condenders and other actions with more pressure tolerance have gotten it up higher than that - some claim 2700 fps or better with a 150 grain! I won't get that much - but my target is to get the barnes x 30-30 flat nose up to 2500. That would be a very effective little shooter. The fn X bullet is specifically designed for that speed - 6 petals instead of 4, bigger nose, it's supposedly a real killer. It would turn the gun into a comfortable moose gun out to about 150 yards, and a deer gun to 200 or better. Plus, it'd still be a good little animal defense gun against the black bears we have so many of around here (latest estimates suggest more than 300,000 in bc alone! and growing!).