I also have a .303 and I think it is a very nice little rifle. It's an old carbine that someone refinished and reblued so it's just a shooter. It's a handy little rifle and I would like to kill a deer with it. I have found that it's not as accurate as most of my 99's so maybe I need to work with it more. The blunt bullets seem to work a lot better than the spitzers. I normally use 180 gr. round nose type bullets or the 170 gr. 30-30s and the accuracy is fine for hunting. The spitzers usually give me a much larger group. I really need to work with this rifle more and tune it up. I bought it with an old Banner low power straight tube variable the looks neat but did not adjust properly. I use .30-30 data for mine and although I have not chronographed it, I suspect it gives me around 2000 fps with most of the loads. I don't think this is a rifle or load that needs to be hot rodded. BT
