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Re: Bolt action rimmed case
[Re: BigPig]
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01/31/20 12:21 PM
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I also have a Savage 340 chambered in 30-30 Win. A lot of guys call me a "Lever-Nut," but with the truth being told, I'm very taken with an old beater, truck-gun I found for a couple of bills. It was a wasted '45 SMLE No 4. After several weeks of bore cleaning, I shot it for a week and discovered I had a hard-core sub-MOA rifle out through 300-yards. I immediately sent it out to be professionally turned into a modern scout rifle. Oh, for the purists, the rifle had been brutally chopped and hacked with no way to keep it a dignified SMLE. I've come to understand the 303 British cartridge. I shoot a 180-grain PPU SPBT that hammers hogs, but if you want a real hammer, the Woodleigh #68 215-grain round nose will fill the bill. These bullets are made for the toughest critters on this earth, and the rifle/bullet combo has taken everything. I bought some of the Australian offerings just to try and was very impressed, the most impressive performance I've seen on game. I shot a 225 ~ 250 lbs boar at my house feeder one night, and it just dropped. Okay, cool. The next morning the buzzards arrived, so I went out to see what happened. Thirty-five yards back in the brush the "spent" bullet had gone through the rib cage of a second boar, cut down a 4" mesquite 10-yards behind it, and then the clawed out bullet pushed that cutout section of mesquite through the guts and out of a third boar. All three boars were 225 ~ 250 lbs, DRT. I documented it for Woodleigh, but don't think they were impressed as the bullet/cartridge has killed everything. I kill a heck of a lot of hogs on my place, probably could kill one every day, but try to kill a couple a week. This cartridge dumps them. I was out there last night. It does the same thing every three to four nights. I don't consider a rimmed cartridge in a bolt action a weird thing.
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Re: Bolt action rimmed case
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01/31/20 12:32 PM
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SMLE guys might notice the five round magazine the rifle. I prefer it over the ten-round for my hunting needs. There is an outfit in the UK that has them made on custom, sessional runs. I bought three as they are impossible to find. They aren't cheap, about $65 when the dust settles. They work with the cartridge chargers, a cool feature of the SMLE. Zip... Five cartridges loaded in two seconds.
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Re: Bolt action rimmed case
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01/31/20 02:23 PM
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Didn’t Puma make the model 92 in 454?
Edit: they still make em $5-600. Of course that’s not a bolt. I’d take a lever gun in 460,,, but it’s hard to justify $3500 for one. I have Rossi 92s in 454 Casull and 480 Ruger, they only made 100 of the latter. I also have a Rossi Rio Grande chambered in 45-70. I sold my Marlin 1895G (45-70 Govt Guide Gun) and Marlin 1895MR (450 Marlin rifle) after I had been shooting the Rossi for six months or so. The Rossi Rio Grande was based on the lighter/smaller 336 frame rather than 1895. Had Marlin ever been able to figure that out, we would have never had the 444 Marlin introduced nor 1895 reintroduced.
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