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I've posted this image before:


but I need some help from members to locate some 150r Hornady SST ammo, BECAUSE it shoots like this:



And I get the feeling, Hornady no linger manufactures it. It also likes the regular 150s as well as the 174 Woodleighs, but man, what can I say about that 5 shot group!

A Blind man built like a giraffe would love it!

Not a fan of the SMLE myself, but lots of Canadians seem to have a bond with them, eah?

Jorge,

Not bad for $250 if you are happy with it. Certainly shoots that ammo rather well...

Yeah, but somebody FIND me some 150r SSTs!

You might try 3Lees in Grand Island, NE, as they seem to have a connection with Hornady.

info3Lees.net

Their website, www.3Lees.net is nearly worthless, but you can email them at info3Lees.net with your wants and they are pretty good about responding in a timely manner.

That is a nice custom stock on your rifle, most 303 customs that i see have ugly stocks. Had a LEO friend several years ago who had a friend repay him a $40 debt with an original Jungle Carbine that was missing the safety.

OK...I guess I gotta do this for you Jericho...

Sweet!

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.


Nearly finished this one I have as a 400 with a slightly shortened 405 Win cartridge. Ebony rather than buff horn but it will take 5 down with the 320gn cast bullet at about 2300fps, so going to be a bit of fun to play with.



This was a 375-303 that I stocked for a friend



Have done another couple of 303's but the 303 dosent have to be a clunker.

Pretty fancy lipstick on that pig.

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

Dat was mean....


Couple more shots ....

Maybe he was shooting it from the hip...

jorgeI, I swear I wish you hadn't posted this. I've always liked the looks of a Lee Enfield sporter that is well done. I've got one with a tupperware stock stuck in the back of my safe somewhere. Seeing the pictures posted in this thread, by you, ingwe, and VonGruff, makes me want to dig it out and get to work on it. I hope to make mine an iron sight rifle, with some straight grain walnut in a classic style and maybe some checkering on the grip.

I was hoping to make it through 2015 with out another project, but I don't guess I made it…

That is one good looking rifle!

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.

Nice rifle and animals Ingwe.

Do you still have that rifle?

Trying to find a 5 shot mag, but they are rare and expensive. I asked a GS I know has made them and he said $250 and over a year to get it and I wanted three of them as I have stocked a couple of these for friends. I missed out on one the other day (didn't see the auction) that went for $160 and that would have been a good buy.
That is what I am looking for as it will make this a really good carrying rifle. Let me know if you have access to one.

Very nice rig Ingwe

Nope....sold it to a pard.

I have SCOURED the earth for a five shot mag that would fit that NoI MKIII!

I love Lee Enfield sporters. Great thread.

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

Nice white-tail!

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.

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.

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.

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

Jorge You can not work up a load with the 150 SST she likes?

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

so you're only looking for the bullets?

correct!

cabelas has them in stock....


http://www.cabelas.com/product/Hornady-reg-Caliber-Diameter-Rifle-Bullets/731803.uts

Hornady® .30-Caliber, .308" Diameter Rifle Bullets
Item number: IK - 213177
BULLET TYPE:.30CAL .308 150GRSST

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.

Correct, DH, 312s. They are no longer being made, Woody did find some for me in New Zealand!

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.

ah yes!

DH: Completely agree with you on the SSTs, sir. fortunately, they seem to do ok on hogs and deer around here (so far).

Yep, that's even better. That sequence makes better sense.