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mehulkamdar
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Rare 303 Magnum Rifle
      #87690 - 24/10/07 12:32 PM

The member who sent me these pictures prefers to remain anonymous. I must thank him for his generosity in sharing these pictures of his very rare 303 Magnum rifle built by BSA on a Dutch Mannlicher action:

























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watto
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Re: Rare 303 Magnum Rifle [Re: mehulkamdar]
      #87701 - 24/10/07 04:25 PM

G'day Mehul,

can you tell me anything about the .303 Magnum round, as I haven't come accross it before. Does it's case differ very much from the standard SMLE round?

With thanks and good shooting, Ian.

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500Nitro
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Re: Rare 303 Magnum Rifle [Re: watto]
      #87703 - 24/10/07 05:25 PM



Watto

It's written up in COTW + other older english texts
on guns.

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Re: Rare 303 Magnum Rifle [Re: watto]
      #87706 - 24/10/07 06:56 PM

I think it was a .280 Ross necked up to .303 (.312") about the same as 30/06

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Marrakai
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Re: Rare 303 Magnum Rifle [Re: 308]
      #87712 - 24/10/07 08:35 PM

Geez, the lock-time must be about half-an-hour with all that heavy hardware on the cocking-piece.

What a marvel!

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Re: Rare 303 Magnum Rifle [Re: mehulkamdar]
      #87714 - 24/10/07 09:44 PM

Beautiful and rare sporter. A joy to see.

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Stuart
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Re: 303 Magnum Rifle round [Re: watto]
      #89210 - 18/11/07 09:04 AM

According to COTW, " Introduced by Jeffrey in 1919 and subsequently adopted by the British Match Rifle Committee.... only listed by Kynoch untl 1930... case is the same as the experimental 276 military round, capacity the same as the 30-06. Ballistics: 174FMJ @ 2850, 3050 ft.-lbs."

CH4D (www.ch4d.com) lists dies for about $75.00.

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