Fireball2, You like the idea of converting the 1903 to the norma mag? I have looked and scrounged and yes asked and will ask a million questions, so hopefully you all do not mind, in trying to figure out just what .35 caliber I want to do in this rifle. And every time I keep coming back to the same one. I guess it is the looks of alot of the old custom rifles I seen built in this caliber. The whelen or any of its "off spring" have been thought about, and still considered. But mostly for the fact of a .35 to try til I am able to do the norma mag in it,