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I guess while we're sharing..this one came from Pappy after he passed so I don't know everything about it. The spitzer bullets in the third picture are accubonds that he had loaded up. I shot a few of them at first but kept rest whole. They fed fine and held about 1.5 moa. I did buy a box of loaded 140s at a gunshow that fed, but did not shoot well.

My loads are the Hornadys. They feed well crimped at the cannelure. Have not killed anything with them yet but an old Norma 156 worked well on an 8 point a few years back.

From what I can tell this one was a greek military rifle that Pappy semi-sporterized. It handles very well even with the 24" barrel. It has run through my mind to someday finish the sporterization with a new stock, metal finish, and turning down of the step in the barrel where the old rear sight was, but it's easier to carry it around this way...