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DUGABOY1
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Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??
17/06/06 06:54 AM

Morten , since the rifle has already been rebored, there is little collector value anyway, so why not re-barrel it to something like 375H&H flanged, or the old stand by 450/400NE 3". The chamber pressures in 308 Win (7.62 NATO) are far higher than either of the two alternitives. If the chambering will clean out the old chamber, the 300 flanged mag would be a choice as well, but pressures are getting high for such an old rifle, as it is with the 308.
I have an idea the reason this rifle was rebored, and re-chambered to 308 is, it was for a someone who had access to thousands of rounds of 308 military ammo,while stationed in a place, like in RSA,where there was good plains game hunting. May have been done durring the sanctions on RSA, when lots of ammo was hard to come by.

The 308 would be my last choice otherwise!

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Subject	Posted by	Posted on
Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	Morten	14/06/06 03:37 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	DUGABOY1	17/06/06 06:54 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	Yochanan	17/06/06 09:49 PM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	Morten	18/06/06 01:50 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	Yochanan	18/06/06 04:02 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	Ron_Vella	01/05/07 11:07 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	bulldog563	18/06/06 04:00 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	CptCurl	14/06/06 04:22 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	Morten	14/06/06 06:20 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	mickey	14/06/06 10:19 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	bulldog563	14/06/06 11:14 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	NitroX	14/06/06 01:45 PM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	vigillinus	16/06/06 04:39 PM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	500Nitro	16/06/06 05:03 PM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	Yochanan	14/06/06 07:43 AM
Re: Re' Rifling a Double rifle??	400NitroExpress	14/06/06 04:04 AM

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