Forums.NitroExpress.com

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact NitroExpress.com: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "

View recent messages : 24 hours | 48 hours | 7 days | 14 days | 30 days | 60 days | More Smilies

*** Enjoy NitroExpress.com? Participate and join in. ***

You are not logged in. [Login]

Main Index · Search · Active Topics
New user · Who's Online · FAQ · Calendar

Double Rifles, Single Shots & Combinations >> Building Double Rifles & Gunsmithing

88MauSporter
.375 member

Reged: 06/06/07
Posts: 530
Loc: Alaska / Texas

Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "
19/08/08 01:46 PM

Ross Seyfried wrote of a .303 single shot that ended up using .323 bullets. It was just way oversize.
Back in 1971 in Alaska, a state trooper gave me an old 7.7 Japanese arisaka 99. The stock had been butchered back to a short forend. "sporter". Original sights, straight bolt, etc.
So, with a alot of work and a little bit of gun smithing, Fajan stock, Williams receiver sight and front ramp, blade, lots of polishing and cold blue, It was my "big" rifle. Factory Norma rounds shot like shotgun paterns and sometimes tumbled. So, slugged the bore. Not .311, not .312, not .315. No, it was .317+. I produced a lead lap on an old rod and brush, lapped it out some more. used a fired case and a drill and more lap on the neck of the case to open the neck of the chamber a bit. And, to my inexperienced self, I had an 8mm (.318) / 7.7. I purchased nice norma 200 grain .318 diameter "J" bore bullets. Worked loads from the 8mm Mauser data to about 2500 FPS. It shot nice sub=2 inch groups at 100 yards.
I proceeded to take my first bull moose that year with the rifle. OK, I was 18 years old. Didn't know this wasn't the right things to do, but it worked out great for me!!
Fell in love a few years later and sold it for date money. Don't have the rifle or the first wife. Boy, I wished I had kept the rifle!

--------------------
"A hunter should not use a rifle that will kill an animal when everthing goes right; you should use one that will do the job when everything goes wrong." 88MauSporter

Post Extras

Print Post

Remind Me!

Notify Moderator

Entire topic
Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	Sarg	16/08/08 01:02 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	JabaliHunter	16/08/08 08:32 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	Sarg	17/08/08 04:54 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	88MauSporter	18/08/08 02:49 AM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	Paul	18/08/08 05:53 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	Nakihunter	18/08/08 06:20 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	JabaliHunter	18/08/08 08:21 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	DarylS	19/08/08 02:00 AM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	Ron_Vella	19/08/08 10:17 AM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	88MauSporter	19/08/08 01:46 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	Sarg	19/08/08 03:52 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	88MauSporter	20/08/08 01:21 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	JabaliHunter	20/08/08 09:13 PM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	DarylS	21/08/08 02:28 AM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	Story	22/10/08 05:35 AM
Re: Hollis Cape Gun -303 X 12Ga " I need some advise "	88MauSporter	17/08/08 05:45 AM

Extra information

0 registered and 12 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator: CptCurl

Forum Permissions
      You cannot start new topics
      You cannot reply to topics
      HTML is disabled
      UBBCode is enabled

Rating:
Thread views: 1394

Jump to

NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5

Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact

Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved