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Thanks WCH. It's for sale ------------- if you like such classics.
Hey, how's the new 223 barrel working out?
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The .223 is excellent.. Only got 500 rds loaded for my trip, but it just drills one hole at 100 yards.. Will have some photos when we get to do some shooting.. Already shot a hundred or so near here.. Great.. Thanks..
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That's what i was hoping to hear. A prairie dog's worst nightmare.
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Have enjoyed following rifles progress.
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I got the 100 and 200 yard blades zeroed today. Tomorrow I'll do the 300 yard blade and then I am ready for bluing. So it will start to come together pretty fast now. Stand by.........
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A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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Thanks Jorge.
It will be ready to sell in about 2 weeks if I don't get the checkering done. If I do, then I will have to get it done sometime in the next 4-6 weeks. Too many things on my plate right now to get on it and stay on it. But it's coming along. Some men like them slick, but they look correct when they are checkered .
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I have three Irish Contract #4's, one 1953 and two 1954. Still in the wrapper. I only shoot one and kept the others in the wrapper. One I fire form the cases I put a penny between the shell holder and the bottom of the die as to short size it. With a load of IMR 4320 and sierra 180 grain bullets it will shoot 1-3/8 inch with many coming in under an inch. Unlike many of the war time rifles these are chambered dead straight. They also seem to lack the slop of a war time production.
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Made a deal on the SMLE "Speed". It's off the market now.
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I'm loading the Hornady 174gn RN in my Ruger No.1 .303. I load it to 2450 fps and used the round nose because I'd never loaded a cartridge this slow before. It performs very well at this speed, as I guess it is designed to do. It seems to expand and exit each and every time on pigs and a fallow buck.
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Great work there. Very inspiring.
James Pepper: There's no law west of Dodge and no God west of the Pecos. Right, Mr. Chisum? John Chisum: Wrong, Mr. Pepper. Because no matter where people go, sooner or later there's the law. And sooner or later they find God's already been there.
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Very nice Steve!!!!! Very nice!!!
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W O W !!
This is my first time to SEE this thread. Don't know how I missed it. My loss.
I read ALL of it. Thanks for posting the progress. F A N T A S T I C !*!*!*!*
Gorgeous Rifles.
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Feh...no propre quarter rib AND scratches all over the bottom metal?!?! What kind of sillyness to inflict upon a fine Wisconsin developed rifle as this?!?!
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Never even owned a .303!!
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Well maybe you need to get one WyoCoyoteHunter. They are in the same league as many many other shells. All of the following are ballisticly almost exactly the same. 303 Brit 7.7 Jap. 300 Savage 30-40 Krag 7.5 Swiss 7.5 French 307 Winchester 7.65 Belgian. Or even a carbine length 308 Winchester. and a few others too. Very classic set of ballistics that have served hunters (and soldiers) for over 100 years. Those ballistics work as well today as it ever did. 30-31 cal bullet, 180 grains at 2350 to 2400 FPS. If you ever shot any game with any of those above you already have a good idea of what to expect.
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