Originally Posted by 338Rules
...Op - sorry for the 303B hijacque

SteveR - Thanks for filling in some details for me. I’ve seen/heard of some smle’s converted to 308Win, but they always had a different box magazine. Not sure if barrels were changed too. ;-)

Still for nostalgia, my Jungle Carbine tops the list. Vicious kicker that one.
Folding buttstock with an appropriate height cheekpiece couldn’t hurt.
Not worth the heartache of improving the chambering, or playing with taper.
Tough to improve on practical perfection of a packaged design.

Any improvement in that regard would have to be verified by maintaining the legendary rate of aimed fire against case stretch and extraction issues.

Win ‘94 and .30-30 , another classic 30

Super 30 Practical ? Maybe in the right package. 26” Ruger #1, Yes definitely. Pre ‘64 Sure
H&H or Rigby ? Out of my league, but not out of place.



It was my pleasure. The magazine had to be changed because the 7.62x51mm cartridge had different dimensions than the 303 British. The barrels were also changed to .308 diameter.

The reason why the No 5, commonly referred to as the Jungle Carbine, was uncomfortable for some people to fire was because of the stock pad. The cartridge is a pussy cat unless the buttplate is removed and a shorter, narrower, hard rubber pad was substituted. It's like the designers didn't test it before giving the go ahead for production.

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