Tubby’s Canteen
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Quality over quantity.
for me personally It works best with two , currently a .270 and a .375 it makes it easy to chose if I’m not comfortable with the .270 then it gets .375
Quality over quantity.
That covers a broad range of game.for me personally It works best with two , currently a .270 and a .375 it makes it easy to chose if I’m not comfortable with the .270 then it gets .375
On a very old rifle you need to do a chamber cast as well. Contrary to the nonsense reiterated by too many gun writers, the change to the deeper ‘Z’ rifling (in military rifles) occurred in 1896. Rifles fitted with the ‘Z’ barrels received a Z mark on the receiver. This was due to pressure and jacket separation issues with the 7.92x57 I ammunition. The bullet jacket proved to be too thin and was substantially thickened for the 7.92x57 IS bullets. When the new cartridge was introduced there was a programme to rechamber the barrels in issued rifles, provided that they had been originally rifled to Z specification. Those rifles were then marked with the letter ‘S’, i.e. the same as new production rifles.Slug the barrel is the only certain way, though sometimes one will find “S / IS“ for.323 clearly marked.
US manufacturers loaded 8mm Mauser ammo (all of it .323) at very low pressure because of the age and condition of many Mausers, sporters and military, brought home from the wars, and because few on this side of the Atlantic knew the difference between a J or S bore. Modern European loads are built to higher pressures. I would never shove a .323 down a .318 if hoping to achieve full potential from a 8mm Mauser.
.318‘s we’re not often built after about 1933. It is, however, why one has to be careful with the lovely old pre-war German sporters one sees for sale in this country.
Exactly! Take me and the 7x57. I love the round but frankly have not had the best luck finding one that shoots as I want it to, meaning at least MOA and preferably under that, with consistency. Been thru several Rugers, Mausers, Winchesters and others. Then a few months ago I picked up a Nosler M48 so chambered, feeling this would be the one. Long story short, I believe it is "the one", but it took some doing at the loading bench. Now I look forward to each range trip because it shoots better every time almost. Only thing I did to the rifle was open up the barrel channel after having many uncalled flyers, which have now largely vanished thankfully. It was floated from build but clearance was not generous.Tend to agree with that gentleman, find the handful of rifles that truly fit you and you shoot the best, then call it a day. Sometimes, fortunately or unfortunately depending on how you look at it, it takes going through quite a few rifles to find that handful