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9.3X57 Nice trophy and your No5 looks to be in good condition.

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It was basically perfect when I got it for $100 except the striker was bent. I replaced that and it became one of the guns I regret selling after I sold it some years later! HA!!

I just remembered that wasn't my first bear, but rather my first in Idaho.

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I have always wondered about "The Ban", too, as it included .450 and .303 calibers and as you know, spawned the .470, etc. It is very confusing. Hopefully someone here has more info on the interesting subject.

John Taylor mentions it in African Rifles and Cartridges and it appears elsewhere in hunting literature. My understanding {not from any specific citation, just from tidbits picked up here and there} is that it involved civilian use and thus we see military and police officer use pop up frequently where it does not seem to have been applied, or at least enforced, and it was only enforced {or legally applied} in India and in African countries, not of course in Australia and NZ and Canada and also excepting South Africa where it does not seem to have been enforced at all {if it applied there?}, the .303 being quite common there among locals going back to the capture of many British service Lees in the Boer War.

As for a caliber ban generally, it's pretty common actually, with the French and Italians and many Latin American countries banning current military calibers. Technically, we have a caliber ban here in the USA, that being nothing over .50 in bottleneck smokeless rounds. Or some such, as I'm not sure of the details!

I wonder if there is anyone who can scout out the specific law itself. I'd be interested in reading the actual code and see what it says and also, its date of introduction and date of abrogation/alteration, etc.

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