Here is my Globe 555, once an SVT 40 sniper rifle. The only redeeming thing is it is the only 303 SLR out there.
The stock sure looks good, did you give it a few coats of BLO, a interesting rifle
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The stock sure looks good, did you give it a few coats of BLO, a interesting rifle
Whoa! I'm not a sporter guy but that is a "spiffy" stock!
Til I knew better...I thought this was a pretty spiffy .303
How does it handle and shoot?
As much as some folk might dislike 'em, they're part of Canadian firearms history...
Wouldn't mind know a bit more if someone has the knowledge.
Shot OK I suppose, it got captured by the next generation ( son and nephews ) pretty quickly.
A-bit like the Jungle Carbine though; loud and stout recoil.
Nicely finished though.
After the fact, I'd heard of some of Globe's travesties and wondered if they changed hands between this rifles modification and some of the reported trainwreck Bubba jobs
A-bit like the Jungle Carbine though; loud and stout recoil.
Nicely finished though.
After the fact, I'd heard of some of Globe's travesties and wondered if they changed hands between this rifles modification and some of the reported trainwreck Bubba jobs
No. Strangely enough I don't think I've ever shot a deer with a .303 br. Coyotes; yes...deer no.
Pretty much everything else but .303 br has gotten deer
8 X 57; check
7.62 X 39 and 7.62 X 54R; check
38-55; check
This fall my .303 Ross and 30-40 Krag are getting blooded for sure.
Not sure how I'm going to work my M-96 swede in there though...
I wouldn't call a 555 a "trainwreck" by any means.
They were a neat rifle, well balanced, not bad looking and they were a pretty good idea. The .303 at that time was one of the MOST used hunting cartridges in Canada. It would be still, if practicality had anything to do with it; it will anchor anything in North America with 1 round if you can place that round correctly.
The problem vis-a-vis the .303 is simple: once the older generation of writers (Julian Hatcher, George Nonte and a few others) began retiring, new writers took over...... and the OWNERS of the gun magazines discovered that they could make a helluvva lot more money by prising up in heaps whoever's latest rifle bought the biggest 4-colour ad. I cannot even THINK of how many "new" cartridges, each and every one better than sliced bread, have been introduced since I started collecting. The fact is that not ONE of them will kill a Deer or a Moose ANY deader than you can kill it with a .303. And fashion enters into it, too. Right now, you are ZERO if your rifle isn't covered with plastic crap or sporting a barrel made by someone with an unpronounceable name. Ammunition has been invented and re-invented and obsoleted and everything else, but there have been few REAL improvements. The .244 Remington became the 6mm Remington and it STILL looks like a 6x57 Mauser. The 51mm case has been "invented" and everyone has forgotten hat it was pioneered by Paul Mauser in the K action rifles..... and the short action also has been re-invented.
But a critter killed by ANY one of them is no deader than one killed by the .303, which will STILL do the job with 1 round. After all, the .303 is ONLY 124 years old this year; it's still modern as far as PRACTICALITY goes. And that is what the 555 ate.
In the recent crop of gun writers, there has been precisely ONE who has had the guts to be photographed, smiling, while holding a .303. That writer is Garry James, who now is an Old Fart, being the same age as Thy Humble Scribe, who generally is recognised as one of the oldest Old Farts still allowed out without a walker or a sign around his neck to tell him hat his name is and where he lives. So the dear old .303 has not received very much decent press in the last 40-odd years. People have forgotten it, even though it still chugs along and brings home the freezer-filling stuff.
PROBLEMS with the 555, basically, are only two:
1. there were no gas-adjustment tools available at that time, and
2. outside of the military, very few people understood the reason for, or even the idea of, adjusting the gas system. If the thing threw the cases out, it was obviously a good rifle. If it threw them halfway to Regina, well, that was the way these here new automagical guns work.
The rifles generally were put away and forgotten when something newer and spiffier came along...... or when they started kicking a mite too damned hard. Thus most owners missed out on the final mad out-of-battery volley of rounds as the poor 555, its gas port eaten out by rust and Cordite ammo, took itself a step closer to self-destruction.
Today, the gas adjustment tools are available.
And more people than ever before understand gas adjustment, port pressures and the like.
And the .303 is still a dandy cartridge.
NO reason, therefore, that a 555 should not continue to bring home the venison for another half a century.
Hope this helps.
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They were a neat rifle, well balanced, not bad looking and they were a pretty good idea. The .303 at that time was one of the MOST used hunting cartridges in Canada. It would be still, if practicality had anything to do with it; it will anchor anything in North America with 1 round if you can place that round correctly.
The problem vis-a-vis the .303 is simple: once the older generation of writers (Julian Hatcher, George Nonte and a few others) began retiring, new writers took over...... and the OWNERS of the gun magazines discovered that they could make a helluvva lot more money by prising up in heaps whoever's latest rifle bought the biggest 4-colour ad. I cannot even THINK of how many "new" cartridges, each and every one better than sliced bread, have been introduced since I started collecting. The fact is that not ONE of them will kill a Deer or a Moose ANY deader than you can kill it with a .303. And fashion enters into it, too. Right now, you are ZERO if your rifle isn't covered with plastic crap or sporting a barrel made by someone with an unpronounceable name. Ammunition has been invented and re-invented and obsoleted and everything else, but there have been few REAL improvements. The .244 Remington became the 6mm Remington and it STILL looks like a 6x57 Mauser. The 51mm case has been "invented" and everyone has forgotten hat it was pioneered by Paul Mauser in the K action rifles..... and the short action also has been re-invented.
But a critter killed by ANY one of them is no deader than one killed by the .303, which will STILL do the job with 1 round. After all, the .303 is ONLY 124 years old this year; it's still modern as far as PRACTICALITY goes. And that is what the 555 ate.
In the recent crop of gun writers, there has been precisely ONE who has had the guts to be photographed, smiling, while holding a .303. That writer is Garry James, who now is an Old Fart, being the same age as Thy Humble Scribe, who generally is recognised as one of the oldest Old Farts still allowed out without a walker or a sign around his neck to tell him hat his name is and where he lives. So the dear old .303 has not received very much decent press in the last 40-odd years. People have forgotten it, even though it still chugs along and brings home the freezer-filling stuff.
PROBLEMS with the 555, basically, are only two:
1. there were no gas-adjustment tools available at that time, and
2. outside of the military, very few people understood the reason for, or even the idea of, adjusting the gas system. If the thing threw the cases out, it was obviously a good rifle. If it threw them halfway to Regina, well, that was the way these here new automagical guns work.
The rifles generally were put away and forgotten when something newer and spiffier came along...... or when they started kicking a mite too damned hard. Thus most owners missed out on the final mad out-of-battery volley of rounds as the poor 555, its gas port eaten out by rust and Cordite ammo, took itself a step closer to self-destruction.
Today, the gas adjustment tools are available.
And more people than ever before understand gas adjustment, port pressures and the like.
And the .303 is still a dandy cartridge.
NO reason, therefore, that a 555 should not continue to bring home the venison for another half a century.
Hope this helps.
.
I've a shot-out, corroded bbl 94 carbine that still puts-em-down dandy and a 94 round bbl rifle with a newly installed Tang sight.
I'm tempted to trade off the carbine as I'll get badly lowballed on a sell because of the Bore.
Sorry there OP, got distracted.
Begging your pardon.
This was on CGN recently, can't remember who posted it.
This looks like a ad from a SIR catalouge from the early 70's, they always had neat stuff to make me drool..LOL
