I can understand your itch for a No.3, I've been scratching that itch for about 30 years. Mine have all been varmint calibers but I did shoot a buddy's 45-70 with 405's at 1850 a couple of times. That was over thirty years ago and I can still remember that hard buttplate pounding my shoulder. I had a No.3 in .22 K-Hornet for a couple of years and traded it off before I bought this one. I think I paid $175 for it in 1991. It was originally a .22 Hornet but had been rechambered to .221 Fireball. I shot it that way for a couple of years before having it rebarreled to .219 Wasp. I put some inexpensive wood on it and shot it 6000 times at paper and PD's.
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I added a Keplinger set trigger and French Gray finish on the action about 2004. I had it rebarelled to my wildcat .204 Wasp in 2010 with a Pac-Nor 11" twist. It now has a 6-24x42 Sightron SII Big Sky instead of the Redfield 6400 16x.
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The No.3 on the left was a .22 K-Hornet when I bought it from a buddy 20 years ago. It now has a Shilen 8" twist barrel in my .219DW PDK chambering. It's a 30-30 case 1.900 long with 35* shoulder. I shoot the 75 grain A-Max at 3200 fps for long range Pd's. Built it to try for a 1000 yd PD, but 915 is the longest hit so far.
The No.3 in the center is an example of buying someone else's custom. I was looking for a No.3 .22 Hornet when I found this one at a gun show three years ago. It was a .223 but I couldn't pass it up for $525 since it had a Keplinger set trigger and some custom work on the wood. I've since rebarreled it to .22/38-55 with a Shilen barrel.
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This is what my No3's are built for, Pd's in Montana and coyotes in Indiana.
Dave