Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact
NitroExpress.com: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA

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


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

Shooting & Reloading - Mausers, Big Bores and others >> Lee Speed Forum & Archive

CharlesHunter
.224 member


Reged: 20/09/21
Posts: 46
Loc: South Australia
Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA
      21/02/22 09:42 PM

Been a while since I have posted anything in regard to this fine rifle.

Firstly, it shoots well, if I do my part it will shoot under an inch at 50yrd using Speer 87gr, S&B cases, Win LR primers and AR2206H. Down side is that it shoots quite high, but this makes sense when you think about it. The barrel size, shape etc matches the original .303 Brit. and it has the original sights, probably set for heavy .303 pills. So I will be making up a new front sight to suit the 303/25s higher velocity and lighter bullet.

Secondly, I managed to find an original mid 1910's Winchester leather sling in the collection which has the appropriate sling hooks and is somewhat contemporary with the rifle and looks correct.

Did take it on a deer hunt late last year and managed to carry it for miles, never got a shot off as the deer were just to clever and stayed well out of range.

I have recently tried some lead bullets ( from one of my Stevens single shot rifles) 87gr and AP70N - which is similar to Unique. Initial load testing showed some promise but then I got kicked in the teeth by Covid and have only been able to get back to the range this last week where I shot my Model 71 Mauser single shot in 9.5x47R in our local Ring Target 100M offhand competition.

Every thing about this Lee Speed BSA just feels right so might look to build one in the near future in .375 or even 8 x 57R and have started to accumulate parts..lol

Cheers
Steve

Post Extras Print Post   Remind Me!     Notify Moderator


Entire topic
Subject Posted by Posted on
* New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA CharlesHunter 23/09/21 05:09 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA NitroXAdministrator   23/09/21 11:18 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA CharlesHunter   24/09/21 10:29 AM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA CharlesHunter   24/09/21 10:44 AM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA 93x64mm   25/09/21 06:15 AM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA Hunter4752001   25/09/21 05:51 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA lancaster   26/09/21 03:44 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA CharlesHunter   27/09/21 08:41 AM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA 2152hq   01/10/21 10:07 AM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA CharlesHunter   01/10/21 01:48 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA CharlesHunter   26/10/21 05:16 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA bwanabobftw   01/11/21 12:53 AM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA CharlesHunter   21/02/22 09:42 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA Hunter4752001   01/10/21 12:53 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA lancaster   24/09/21 02:16 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA degoins   23/09/21 11:46 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA DarylS   24/09/21 02:11 AM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA lancaster   24/09/21 03:55 AM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA 264   23/09/21 09:07 PM
. * * Re: New member and a new to me Lee Speed BSA 93x64mm   23/09/21 07:59 PM

Extra information
1 registered and 19 anonymous users are browsing this forum.

Moderator:  NitroX 



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

Rating:
Thread views: 7335

Rate this thread

Jump to

Contact Us NitroExpress.com

Powered by UBB.threads™ 6.5.5


Home | Ezine | Forums | Links | Contact


Copyright 2003 to 2011 - all rights reserved