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Ben

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Ben,
What? No pics of the new 1903! Love this thread, very informative. I am still looking for a 03 sporter myself.
Malcolm

Malcolm,

The rifle has a Timmney trigger set at a clean and crisp 1 lb.
Rifle is glass bedded and free floated.
A " high number " 1903.
Bore is pristine, 4 groove.

Here it is :

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35 shooter

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Ben,

You are the PB GURU! Thanks for listing some of the powders and the range you load them in for .30 cals.
I've got a couple of pb loads i use in my 35 whelen, but have yet to try them in my .308.
I have a couple of nice pb bullets for 30 cal., so i need to get busy and work up a load or two!
 

Brother_Love

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Ben,
Yes, the Timmney triggers are great. I just installed one on my Remington 30s in 35 Whelen. Mine is set a crisp 1 1/2 lb.

Good luck with your rifle but I'm betting it is a shooter!

Malcolm
 

Ben

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This 1 pound is super light.
When I get through testing loads with it, I may move it to 1.5 - 1.75 lbs.

Ben
 

Brother_Love

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Here is mine. I love it except the Williams mount. It requires that the scope be mounted too far forward. I may change to the Weaver style mounts.
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Ian

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Here you go, Ben, will put them in the mail to you Monday.

Two of KeithB's blanks center-drilled and turned to .308" outside diameter (these are for epoxy fitting to whatever you need), and one I tried to finish out to fit your Accurate 31-275BP with a little larger OD at .313" to fit a little more snug into the tapered entrance of Lyman H-dies if you should want to push the bullet into them that deep (probably won't, but you got the option). The nose cavity is .197" deep (metric threaded dial failure on my part, I turned it .200" but it isn't exactly accurate, lesson learned) and .187" on the meplat and .267" at the opening, should match the nose profile with a little wiggle room for parting lines, etc.. I was shooting for .004" oversized, but it ended up a little large due to not pushing the cone that extra .003" depth. Hard to make it perfect without a sample bullet to fit but it's as close as I could get.

I made a little pound cast of the cavity of the #315 punch with pure lead so you can see the profile. If the bullets extrude into the pilot hole like the soft slug did, you can fill it with epoxy, but I doubt ACWW alloy will deform much.

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Ben

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Looks like I owe you one Ian.

That is very nice.
I'll be good to go now ! ! :):):)

Many thanks,
Ben
 
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Maxjon

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I notice some shooters, of low velocity loads, like to use pistol primers.....Do they perform better, with the small powder charge?
 

Ben

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They might, they might not.
Just takes a bit of experimentation on the two.
Often times, the pistol primer will win out.

Ben
 

popper

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Ben, might try CFE pistol for PB in the 30/30. I was really surprised shooting 145gr, CFE-P vs unique. Maybe 1500 fps and felt like a 22LR. Marlin 336.
 

Ben

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Powder is hard to find around here.
Once it becomes available again, I'll try some.
Thanks,

Ben
 

fiver

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if your down on the bottom end of things the pistol primer can tilt things just off the edge.
my 300 BO is on that ridge and pistol primers will send them off into weird 2" group land.
back to rifle primers and back to the 1" and under zone.
my next trick will be powder coating so I'm fully expecting to have to raise the load to compensate.
I will count up the little primers and see which I have the most of and start my load workup again.

I'm leaning towards using the pistol primers mainly because I will need to up the load for the P/C, and they will require that I raise the load too, so I'm gaining a little bit more case fill with the 2 steps which is a bonus.
 

Ben

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I've shot clip on WW's and a lot of range scrap .30 cal plain base bullets
in several 30-06 , 30-30 and 308 Win rifles.
I don't push things speed wise.
I do a lot of shooting in the 1,200 fps speed range.
These alloys have always shot well for me.

Ben
 
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