WTB ........ 303 bullets

$30 for 100 Rem core-lok's is a good price for a great bullet!! I hunted with those a lot when I was younger. And my father and most of my uncles kept the freezer full with 303's and rem core-loks!
 
LUTNIT said:
....Another option is to try .308" bullets of any weight. They don't work in all .303's because of the varying bores but they do work well sometimes. I'd say about half the .303's I've loaded for have worked with .308" bullets quite well. Usually need to swap your expander ball for one meant for a .308" bullet though; they tend to just fall into the neck if you use an expander meant for .311-.312" bullets.
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That's been my experience as well. My No4 Mk1 shoots just fine with .308 bullets. What I do is to run the .303 case through the resizing die to resize the case and decap the primer. Then remove the expander ball and decapping rod from the die and run the case through again. This will reduce the case neck sufficiently to firmly grasp the bullet. By all means use a .308 expander ball and rod if you have one available for your die make, but if you don't, the aforementioned method works just fine.
 
Supercub, if you can't get .311-.312 bullets the size and shape you like, you may want to try plain old .308 bullets that otherwise fit your likings.

I tried plain 180 grain Winchester PP's in two separate LE's and out to 200 meters (as far as I shot), I could not tell the difference between them and "real" .311 diameter Sierra ProHunter bullets. Groups were about 1.5" at 100 and around 3.5" at 200 meters, which were totally normal for those two rifles.

I used Lee 7.62 x 54R dies to neck size the necks to .308 without touching the shoulder or body of the brass. There are surely lots of other dies that would do the same thing...
 
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