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Good luck!
Why lose leave? You earned it, so you should use it.
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I am sure neck sizing would work tell it wont sometime that is not to your liking, I like your idea of just bumping the shoulder back A bit, I FL size everything shot in lever guns. It wears out brass faster but it always works, 30-30 brass is all over the place. I have had good luck with CFE223 and Leverevolution in the 30-30 both meter well,I would like to hear how they do in the IMP.
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I almost bought some Leverevolution to try and may still.
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After doing the math I found there was no sight of the correct height to get me where I needed to be for proper zero while keeping the receiver sight sitting low. I ordered a Skinner Partridge that was .500" tall and will file it down to correct height once I get load development done with this rifle. I had to take .013 off the dovetail with a triangular file to get it to fit: Old sight punched out with Skinner punch (well made if you need a sight punch that is brass): My range is shut down for maintenance today so I hope to get a chance to shoot it tomorrow or this weekend because I will be gone for another week starting Monday.
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I went out to work down the sight and fire-form another 50 rounds for the gun. I still have another 15 to fire-form because I quit when a thunderstorm rolled in. Nothing as spectacular as last outing but I got the sight centered up. Top group is 2.2", center group is 1.8", and bottom group is 2.1": I took it out to 300yds just for gigs. I marked off all the existing holes on the target backer with a sharpie marker. I shot two sighters and was about 2 minutes low so I dialed up and let five loose. From the round at 11 o'clock to the round at 7 o'clock is 13.5" but the three just left of center are 1.3". I would like to say it was the 6# trigger but since it is all elevation I'm guessing it was an error in my hold. I needed a little bigger target since this one just looked like a small dot on top of my post:
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After fire-forming 100 Federal factory rounds I gave the bore a good cleaning. I removed a ton of carbon fouling but there was very little copper coming out the barrel. This is a 1953 gun with 4-groove rifling and it appears to be quite good. I loaded 5 rounds each of BL-(C)2 at 37 to 39 grains in .5gn increments under a Hornady 150gn RN Interlock bullet with a Fed GM210M primer. This is the first five rounds out of the clean barel with 37gn of powder and measures 1.402" center to center: The rest of the groups were about double that size so I loaded up another 25 rounds at 37gn for testing and probably a little hunting. I need to order a Wolf reduced power hammer spring because at 6-7# I go through at least two breathing cycles to break the trigger and it is starting to really irritate me. Half the time I end up glancing down at the hammer to see if it is actually cocked even though I know it is.
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One thing I forgot to add in the event any of you ever try a .30-30 Improved (or any improved for that matter). Sizing sharp shouldered cases can be an issue and with a sizing die you can can give the shoulder a slight bulge that prevents chambering. I figured that out when I started with the .280 Improved when I was about 18. So, I just barely bump them and measure shoulder junction diameter as I make each die adjustment. The issue that was new for me was collapsing shoulders when seating bullets. The .30-30 brass is very thin and when I was setting up my dies and making a dummy or three I started collapsing shoulders which caused the shoulder/body junction to bulge up to .025" or so.
If you ever run into this get either a Lyman M die or Lee Expander and just bell about 1/16" of the neck. You will likely only get .001" of constriction/tension after you do this so you will need some sort of crimp die. I am using a Lee Factory Crimp to just barely touch the portion of the neck that got expanded by the M die.
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I have the gunsmith section a read then took my trigger assembly apart. The sear retains its original angle so I'm not sure how much trigger work I actually got. I decided to bend the return spring before cutting the sear. That alone cut 25% off the weight and it feels much better. I'm going to hit the range this morning and see if it needs more work.
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It's threads like this that really get me into trouble. I'am thinking I really NEED a 30/30
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It's threads like this that really get me into trouble. I'am thinking I really NEED a 30/30 EVERY AMERCIAN hunter/shooter NEEDS to own a lever action 30-30!
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