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The 8x68mm S was chosen as parent case, since it offers enough case capacity and a competent gunsmith can relatively easy rechamber a standard Mauser 98 rifle to accept 8x68mm S based cartridges. To keep costs down and promote an acceptable recoil level blowing out the parent case was renounced.

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This is exactly as I did, 20 years ago. Excellent round. Seems to me, Keith was getting about 3,100fps with 235's, along iwht 2,900fps with those 270gr.

The .338 necked up to .375 was the .375 Chatfield Taylor in the States, seems to me, where it had some following in the 60's through 80's.

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Daryl


"a gun without hammers is like a Spaniel without ears" King George V

Edited by Daryl_S (25/05/12 09:53 AM)

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