Hornady's LEVERevolution .30-30 Winchester Ammo

The other day while in Albuquerque, I picked up some ammunition for my Winchester 94 .30-30 rifle at Omni Arms.

The ammo is Hornady's LEVERevolution ammo with a pointed flex-tip. It is not the traditional flat-nosed .30-30 ammo normally used in lever-action rifles to prevent "chain-fire" accidents in the tubular magazine as the nose rests against the back end of the cartridge in front. 

The reason being (according to ChuckHawks.com):

The key to the LEVERevolution ammunition, two years in development, is a new Evolution spitzer (pointed) bullet with a red elastomer Flex Tip. This tip flattens enough to cushion the primer of the cartridge in front of it in the magazine during the acceleration of recoil, yet returns to its original shape instantly thereafter. The Flex Tip has been tested at temperatures from -40 to +130 degrees F, and also passed 15' drop tests in full magazine tubes and many rounds of proof loads. The Flex Tip eliminates the possibility of a magazine chain-fire, the bugaboo that has prevented the use of pointed bullets in rifles with tubular magazines.

 I decided to give a box of the LEVERevolution rounds a try.

Here's a comparison of the Hornady LEVERevolution .30-30 Winchester cartridge (left) and a flat-nosed Hornady .30-30 Winchester cartridge.