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Petunia Pig was done in with the following:

• Brass: 8x56R, formed from multiple firing, neck sized as described above with Lee and Lyman dies
• Primer: CCI 200
• Powder: A5744, 24.0 grains
• Bullet obtained from Montana Bullet Works: Cast gas-checked 170-grain, flat-nosed. RCBS 32-170-FN, sized 0.324". Lyman #2 alloy, heat-treated (for hunting), BHN 22. Lubed with LBT Blue. Seated with Lee 8mm Lebel seating die.
• COAL=2.665"

Chronograph velocity was about 1825 fps.

I slugged the bore at 0.3234", and ordered bullets accordingly. The load I took hunting was based on trials with five or six different commercially cast bullets and 3-4 powders. My rifle seems to be picky about bullet type and powder charge
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(The loading info above is coming via the internet and should be considered as myth pending your own investigations.)

There are warnings by "Dutchman" in various forums about using loading data for this cartridge as published in Cartridges of the World and in Shotgun News. These warnings should be heeded. (You probably already knew this.)

--Bob
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I'm now trying to determine if getting the .321 mould was an accident or providence.

I slugged the barrel and had a groove diameter of .323 but forgot what the bore is, likely the .321 may be the right way to go.

Problem is this damn "job" thingy.

Working with numbers all day long, and I can't keep anything straight without my notebook...

And that's on the end table next to my 38.

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The circular disk in the buttstock of the rifle is not an inlay. It's a medallion that's been tacked onto the stock. A closeup:
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The phrase across the bottom is translated as "20th National Shooting Matches", (or "Contests" or "Competitions" or "Games", etc.). The phrase across the top translates as "Stockholm Newspaper" (or "Times" or "Gazette", or "Journal", etc.)

The medallion made the rifle really attractive, because I thought that some Swedish sharpshooter had used the rifle to win the medal, which meant that the rifle was potentially quite accurate. Wrong. After checking some forums devoted to Swedish firearms, I found the following.

In 1942 the newspaper, the largest and most influential in Sweden, decided to sponsor some sort of athletic event, and polled its readership for the type of contest. A rifle shooting contest was favored by a large margin. (This is understandable given the situation of Sweden in 1942. The Nazis had taken over its neighbors Norway and Denmark, while Finland was having multiple military difficulties of its own. The officially neutral Swedes were really interested in armed defense.)

The newspaper decided to sponsor the annual match held among Swedish shooting clubs, in which the targets are shot on the home club grounds, with either the scores or the targets mailed in and compiled. There were multiple thousands of entrants in the match. The newspaper had a special medal struck for the match, and obtained about 1000 old military rifles to which the medals were attached. The rifles were not special selections; some were chambered for the old large-caliber BP cartridge, others were the 8x58RD conversions. The rifles were given as prizes to the winning shooters.

So, my rifle did not have an accuracy pedigree. It is however in very good shape with an excellent bore, and its capabilities exceed my abilities.

I think the medallion depicts Hercules/Heracles shooting the Stymphalian birds, one of his dozen labors.

(I dunno whether a naked guy shooting was appropriate symbolism to bring to the campfire hog slaying event or not. Maybe the arrows were 0.277" in diameter.)

I suspect you're sorry you asked.
--Bob

Certainly not with the wee digit on it.

I haven't had a chance to do a chamber cast, but I made some bullets Sunday, and dropped one in, and that long 215 grain bullet slid in the bore so that the base was nearly flush with the end of the chamber cut for the neck.

Oversized neck and a deep throat.

Sounds like a porn movie.