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OK...I guess I gotta do this for you Jericho... ![[Linked Image]](http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss45/thmsbrownlee/017_17-2.jpg) Pretty fancy lipstick on that pig.  Dat was mean.... Couple more shots .... ![[Linked Image]](http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss45/thmsbrownlee/022_22-1.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i560.photobucket.com/albums/ss45/thmsbrownlee/027_27-1.jpg) Nice rifle and animals Ingwe. Do you still have that rifle? Nope....sold it to a pard.
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I have done a few and while they are not top flight customs are more than enough for me. This is my personal 303 and it will be a keeper. This was the first one I did where I made the grip cap and the forend tip out of buff horn and was rather pleased with how it finished up. ![[Linked Image]](http://i667.photobucket.com/albums/vv39/VonGruff/303%20Lee%20Enfield%20sporting%20rifle/LS%203_zpstpb1vxug.png) von gruff: a 5 shot mag would really make that a sleek little shooter! Of course, if you are culling, the ten shotter sure comes in handy I have SCOURED the earth for a five shot mag that would fit that NoI MKIII!
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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I love Lee Enfield sporters. Great thread.
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Where can a guy get a decent one to build up? Wasn't some of them converted to 35-303 for rifles in Canada and the NW? POWDR
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OK...I guess I gotta do this for you Jericho... Nice white-tail!
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Where can a guy get a decent one to build up? Wasn't some of them converted to 35-303 for rifles in Canada and the NW? POWDR Good luck with that. In my gun-smithing years I had maybe 2 dozen come into the shop before I started refusing to work on them. The first thing to check is headspace. Only one of those rifles had proper head-space. This is adjusted by changing the bolt-heads, #1 to #5 IIRC. And it's damned hard to come by some of those. Took me 5 years on one, before I'd let it out of my shop. Fugger had a # 1, needed a #5.... It's a functional rifle and durable, and not something I would own because it is otherwise a cheap piece of crap (ask all the Germans it killed.... but I digress.....  ), but if you go for it- make sure it has proper head spacing BEFORE purchase or it will be the major PITA of your gun-owning career.
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Given I know very little about actual gunsmithing, I'm curious why you wouldn't just set the barrel back a turn, cut a deeper extractor groove, and run a reamer in after the headspace exceeded a #5? I can't imagine the bolt-heads were anything but a quick fix for wartime expediency. The barrels are still threaded like a normal action.
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Yes, nothing wrong with these rifles. Reminds of some things I've heard in life.
"Make do, do without;
Use it up, wear it out"
But there is always the opportunity to do it with a little style. I've always liked that quote myself (although I don't always live by it!). But I heard it backwards from the quote you have: "Use it up, wear it out, make it do, or do without!" Thanks.
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Given I know very little about actual gunsmithing, I'm curious why you wouldn't just set the barrel back a turn, cut a deeper extractor groove, and run a reamer in after the headspace exceeded a #5? I can't imagine the bolt-heads were anything but a quick fix for wartime expediency. The barrels are still threaded like a normal action. djp; Top of the morning to you sir, hopefully this finds your part of our province as still and sunny as it is here. So to you or anyone who's interested in getting acceptable case life out of these old war horses, I'll share what's been our solution for SOP on all LE actions. I start with virgin brass and open the neck up to .338" using a .338 Win Mag sizing die. Then the case is run into a standard .303 British full length die - but just far enough to create a false shoulder on the case. One wants the bolt to just so close on the case and we still should be able to see the secondary shoulder we've created. Load and fire with normal loads and just treat the cases like a rimless from then on and don't resize so the shoulder is moved back down ever. We've had this method work on a few rifles now - one in particular that would wreck cases so bad with the initial firing that two reloads were all we were getting afterward. Now using the method described above we're at 5 and counting - and the cases look fine. Hopefully that made sense and was useful information to you or someone out there shooting a Lee Enfield. Dwayne
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Jorge You can not work up a load with the 150 SST she likes?
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Fotis: It LOVES the 150SST but I think Hornady stopped making it. It also shoots the regular 150 Hornadys well (about 1.5" which is really pretty good!) and it also shoots the 174 Woodleighs at 1" so I suppose I'm ok. I have about 300 150 SSTs left. J
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so you're only looking for the bullets?
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Hornady® .30-Caliber, .308" Diameter Rifle Bullets
Item number: IK - 213177
BULLET TYPE:.30CAL .308 150GRSST
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Fotis, I believe Jorge is looking for the HORNADY 303/7.7MM(.312) 150gr SST
Every place I have looked they seem to be out of stock.
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Correct, DH, 312s. They are no longer being made, Woody did find some for me in New Zealand!
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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One day I would like to get some sort of Enfield and put it in a new fancy dress, something along the lines of what the poobah did.
I think that would be a hell of a neat project.
Glad to see you found some of the SSTs you were looking for Jorge. I'm not big on their performance, but one can't argue with their accuracy.
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