What Cartridge Does This Belong In?

[Bret4207]

PPU was making brass and ammo for it a few years ago when I got mine. I really need to lay in a supply of brass, it's likely to only get harder to find.

220 Swift brass will work as will 307 Winchester

 

[Missionary]

We have been shooting Krags a long time like many of you. Have seen only one with a .3085 groove (1902). Numerous 311-.313 (94-98). Less in the 314 groove. But we have one in .315 (1898) with a very good barrel. It shoots a .316 nicely.
We also segregate brass to rifles.
That old, odd Krag could use those on white tails or yotes.

 

[L Ross]

the 303's bullets were 311 the bore was 308.
it was one of the trick's Arthur used to get the 303 to look better than the 30-30, he knew even back then that 2400 looked a lot better than 2300.
case size killed him, so pressure was his friend.

And he knew 3,000 was cooler than 2,800. I wonder if he was related to George Herter?

 

[fiver]

maybe not related but they sure went to the same business school

 

[richhodg66]

I wouldn't melt those down. I'd find a Lee Enfield, Argentine Mauser, Arisaka, etc, to shoot them through.

 

[Bret4207]

I think George got the Masters course and Arthur took the Associates degree night school courses...

 

[358156 hp]

maybe not related but they sure went to the same business school

The Worlds Finest Business School.

 

[smokeywolf]

I wouldn't melt those down. I'd find a Lee Enfield, Argentine Mauser, Arisaka, etc, to shoot them through.

Rich, I'm a Winchester lever guy. Love my few milsurps, but if I had some extra discretionary money, I'd be looking for a nice Model '85 high wall, a Model '95 in 40-72 or a Model '94 with octagonal barrel in 38-55.

 

[Michael]

Spend several hundred bucks for a rifle and dies to shoot up fifty bucks in lead. Oh wait, never mind, forgot who the audience is.

 

[richhodg66]

When I absorbed my hoarder dad's stuff into my own hoarder stuff, I got, literally, a ton of cast bullets. Quite a few had been in a barn for decades and the various things they were in had deteriorated which, of course, got grit in the lube. I kind of made a vow to myself that Dad had gone to the work of casting and prepping them (I have often wondered if he used to cast and load to shoot or shot to cast and load), so I was going to shoot up what he had cast if at all possible rather than just melt them down and recast. I've cleaned up quite a few and donw just that and after several years, I'm now beginning to see a dent in the supply.

He had cast up stuff for almost every bore size imaginable, fortunately, I'm a gun nut and therefore have something that will shoot damn near any size of bullets laying around somewhere. Finding an over sized .30 in the form of an SMLE or Mosin Nagantwas too easy. Most were pretty easy, pistol bullets of various types. He cast up an awful lot of light .30 caliber bullets in the 100-110 grain range, been shooting those up in various things in gallery loads. Kinda fun, but nothing I take real seriously.