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They weren't really in a position to do anything else. Early Springfield and 1895 conversions would have been in the back of their minds. Mine is an M17 Eddystone with rebored barrel done in 1978 and marked as a 35-06 Whelen. Remington did it no favour when they used the 1:16" and removed the component 250gr projectiles from the market.
Cheers...
Con

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I understand and appreciate your input, Con. I had forgotten about all those wildcats in the .35 Whelen. The trouble with wildcats are there are no firm standardization and chamber dimensions do wander around a bit.

As to the Eddystone, a buddy of mine uses the P-14's and P-17's for a manner of his rifles, from 9.5x68, several 6.5x68S's and 8x68S's. He has at least one Eddystone in 8x68S - not noted for being soft on pressure.