Your planning to shoot elephant or Cape buffalo? Because with the possible exception of bison, nothing in North America is considered "thick skinned"
Lee - Enfield #4 mk1
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Your planning to shoot elephant or Cape buffalo? Because with the possible exception of bison, nothing in North America is considered "thick skinned"
- Location
- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
There's always walrus, they've got ivory too!
Pathfinder
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- Location
- Northeast Ontario
Ive got one in 45-70, feeds and shoots well. Not exactly the first rifle I think of picking up when I step out the door for most of the hunting I do but a good option for my "stop anything at close range" needs.
Bull####. the 35-303 was a very popular enfield conversion back in the day. I've read about 375-303's as well.
I agree with Ganderite.
A .308 bore, with a .303 case works fine!
I have another question for you guys.
The .303 brit case is famous for stretching bad.
Other than going to an improved chambering (which may cause feeding problems), how can you address/limit this?
The .303 is a great old cartridge, and just fun to shoot.
Give me your thoughts gunnutz.
A .308 bore, with a .303 case works fine!
I have another question for you guys.
The .303 brit case is famous for stretching bad.
Other than going to an improved chambering (which may cause feeding problems), how can you address/limit this?
The .303 is a great old cartridge, and just fun to shoot.
Give me your thoughts gunnutz.
The Tooner:
I agree with the head space thing, but I am reffering to the natural tendancy of brass flow on a highly tapered case.
Neck sizing works great to reduce the brass flow caused by full length sizing a highly tapered case. Keeps things aligned also.
Any other ideas on how to reduce case stretching guys?
I agree with the head space thing, but I am reffering to the natural tendancy of brass flow on a highly tapered case.
Neck sizing works great to reduce the brass flow caused by full length sizing a highly tapered case. Keeps things aligned also.
Any other ideas on how to reduce case stretching guys?
Mine LOVE this bullet. Very effective, good groups.
I agree neck sizing is the best answer, and the obvious choice for any wildcats (including the .308 technically).
It's a pretty cool round for sure, the key here would be to keep your load to reasonable levels. The Ross is a fantastic action for the 35-303 as you can load well beyond what you would ideally do in a Lee action as it has been proven even tougher than the Mausers. Regarding the improved chamberings, I have no problems with feeding issues in my .35 Epps, but then the Ross magazine is a single stack, not staggered like the LE, which I can see where they could prove problematic.
My Hornady manual gives 45-70 loads for the Marlin 1895 up to 44,000cup. The SAAMI .303 rating is 45,000cup so I would think that the Enfield action will stand the same 44,000cup loads as the 1895 action.
Mark
Pathfinder
CGN Ultra frequent flyer
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- Northeast Ontario
I load my own, I really havent' pushed the envelope since I get plenty of recoil before I get to max loads. 40gr. of 3031 behind a 500gr. Cast Bullet is plenty for me.
I would think It could take anything a Marlin 1895 can handle and the loading manuals are careful to outline what that is.
I have more fun at the range with Black Powder duplication loads, i think Ill pick up some trailboss sometime.
I don't own a 45-70 (yet), but have considered it many times and keep thinking of converting a No.4 Enfield action. Hence, the prior research on what the Enfield can take for loads.
Mark
There was a thread started a few weeks back, in the reloading section, (if I remember correctly) that had some excellent advice on this subject. The thread started out with someone needing to extract a broken case that was stuck in his LE.
I followed the advice given on using O-rings to fire form new cases. It's worth looking up.
