Get well soon, John.
I have an 1899A TD barrel in .303 whose bore looks like the south end of a bear heading north in huckleberry season. I was thinking of sometime having it re-bored and making it a .303-35. All this talk of .38-55's has me thinking....
I gotta check and see if a .38-55 reamer will will clean up a .303 chamber. My gut feeling is it won't though. Maybe a .303-375 wildcat.
Oh dear god, someone shoot me!