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I hunt with a 1899 B in .303 all the time. It's rigged with a Lyman tang sight set to a 150 yard zero using 170 grain Speer flat Points. 200 yards is a long dam shot with a .303. I replaced the original rear sight with a Lyman folding sight. I can shoot better in low light with the leaf sight than the peep sight. I have by far had my best luck accuracy wise using IMR 4320. My 1899 C .303 shoots about the same as the B. I use brass sheeting cut into thin strips about the size of a paper match as shims under one side or the other of the tang sights base for windage adjustment. Pre-hunting season 100 yard sight-in. Top 3 hole group results after final sight adjustment. It'll shoot groups like that every time. ![[Linked Image]](http://i584.photobucket.com/albums/ss283/mw406/DSCN0676.jpg) Nice job Matt! That's what I'm hoping for someday. For what its worth those are 170 grain Speer pills pushed with 30 grains of IMR 3031. My group was nice and tight at 50 butt I think I muffed it at 100. I ran out of time. More experimenting to follow. Thanks for all your input folks....
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i had a barrel band carbine in 303, it was a ack driver with 150 sierra fp and blc2
I have never harvested a animal but I have killed quite a few,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
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i had a barrel band carbine in 303, it was a ack driver with 150 sierra fp and blc2 I've had my best luck so far, accuracy wise, with BL-C(2) in .303 SAV and .30-30. In the 1899B .303 I have I like the Sierra 170 grain #2010. I've been fooling with some other powders and bullets, but I keep coming back to the BL-C(2) loads. I should try 4320 some day and also haven't tried the Speer bullet yet. The rifle also shoots 190 grain Silvertip factory ammo pretty good. This is about the best I can do with my 1899B with a tang sight. 100 yards prone with the rifle on a bag last Sunday. BL-C(2) and the Sierra 170 grain bullet. I just shimmed the tang sight over a little and haven't shot since the adjustment, as to the original topic. I use paper. I seem to find a lot of older guns with paper shims of some kind and it seems to work OK. ![[Linked Image]](http://i1226.photobucket.com/albums/ee419/hurint/DSC02862_zpse9824b9e.jpg)
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