Which calibers are Lee Enfields convertable to?

[mbogo3]

Lynyrd Skynyrd is very anti gun ie:" Mr Saturday Night Special" Who'd a thunk a Southern boy that don't like guns?? Harold

 

[mooncoon]

Seen a .303/.338 rebore on a shotout origonal Rigby mauser sporter in Rifle magazine.Harold * the 236 Lee navy can be made from 220 swift never heard off using .303?

I have a Winchester straight pull sporting rifle in .236 Lee navy and did not have a source of 220 swift shells. I made the .303 shells rimless, on the metal lathe, and reduced the base in diameter a trifle I think. If you have a metal lathe for rebarreling the action, you could leave the .303 as a rimmed shell and leave the base the same but from there on forward, duplicate the lee shell.

Maybe worth mentioning that I make my own chambering reamers in the form of D bits (spade bits) and use the same sort of bits to make my own loading dies. If you are stuck with buying commecial reamers and dies, you are looking at a lot more expense to follow my suggestion.

cheers mooncoon

 

[RR]

.410 SS were issued to jail guards in India and used 2.5" brass cases not 3".BTW you can make 2.5 " .410 out of .303brass with .444 Marlin dies and they last forever...........Harold

303 is not safe

 

[Pblatzz]

There's allot of choices.

(From Stephen Redgwell's site www3 .sympatico.ca/shooters/303Page.htm)

Meredith 303/22
22/303 Varmint-R (22 Varmint-R)
22 Wasp
22/303 Sprinter
22/303 (22 Rocket - 22-4000)
22/303 Epps --- almost doing 4000 fps
22/303 British Improved 40
220/303 British
243/303 (6mm/303 British)
6mm/303 Epps
25/303 British
25/303 Epps
6.5/303 Epps
270/303
270/303 Epps
7mm/303 British
7mm/303 Epps (7mm/303 British Improved)
7.7x54mm Rimmed
303 ICL Improved
303 Epps Improved (303 British Improved)
8mm/303 Epps
338/303 Epps
338 JDJ
35/303 Epps
375/303 Epps

**there's a word of caution about the 303 Epps, There are different loads for each type of Lee Enfield action. In fact the No1 it would be a waste of time doing a conversion, The 303 Epps is best done on a P-14, I would also think the same for some of these calibers as well. Don't forget to see if you could do a conversion on a Ross MkIII sporter, That receiver can take any caliber you want.

Pete