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Re: Converting an old Ruger #3 to something neat
      30/12/05 07:02 AM

I have a #3 originally chambered for .375 Win.

To make things interesting it is drilled out to 9.5x57R. I neck down .444 Marlin brass in one pass through the sizing die. But being a Ruger, it will also extract rimless brass. I have made rimless cartridges out of .270 Win. and .30/06. You have to cut off the brass, run it through the sizer, and do a fire-form with cream of wheat.

By the way, my conversion was made to headspace on the shoulder, so the presence or absence of a rim is basically irrelevant in this rifle.

It's a great shooter. I load it with 250 gr. Sierras. They really arrive with authority. Quite a few deer can testify to this.

The same cartridge, in rimless form, would just be dandy in a custom Mauser 98.

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* Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat BlainSmipy 28/12/05 05:04 PM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat 550Magnum   16/01/06 04:29 PM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat BwanaBob   12/01/06 11:09 PM
. * * Re: Converting an old Ruger #3 to something neat CptCurlAdministrator   30/12/05 07:02 AM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat DarylS   29/12/05 04:00 AM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat mickey   29/12/05 07:22 AM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat BlainSmipy   29/12/05 09:55 AM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat mickey   29/12/05 01:41 PM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat BlainSmipy   29/12/05 09:31 AM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat DarylS   30/12/05 03:01 AM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat Otto   28/12/05 11:03 PM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat BlainSmipy   01/01/06 07:53 PM
. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat banzaibird   02/01/06 02:24 AM
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. * * Re: Converting a old Runger #3 to something neat BlainSmipy   11/01/06 11:25 AM
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