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Re: A new life for....
Posted: Tue Mar 04, 2014 4:26 am
by Aughnanure
Duncan,
Thanks for the morale booster!!
Have put in a better photo but from Photobucket as Picassa, for some weird reason is sending original pics even though they've been cropped.
Re: A new life for....
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 7:21 am
by Aughnanure
The finished product except for the action pin and the rere sight.
Re: A new life for....
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:19 pm
by Dave 101
Good to something being revived like this .
Dave
Re: A new life for....
Posted: Thu Mar 20, 2014 2:45 pm
by Niner
Looks good, Eoin. Now....are you going to shoot it and let us know how it does punching holes in paper?
Re: A new life for....
Posted: Fri Mar 21, 2014 1:10 am
by Aughnanure
Definitely, I'm working on the sight now.
The rifle was stamped .32/20 on the barrel and I thought that it was one of the many thousands that were re-chambered for that round (mainly the rim grouve was deepened) but it won't accept a .32/20 so was probably so stamped to make it look legal in the times when the .310 was deemed to be a military calibre in NSW.
The trick was to turn the rims on a few .32/20s so that they'd go into the chamber (if it was lose enough) and "Yes, Officer, it's a .32/20, see this .32 Winchester round slips straight in".
The .310 is a better and more powerful round anyway in modern re-loadings.