Infidel-6 said:
Its I support the Right to Keep and Arm Bears.
I used to have a shirt that had that - and a Bear with a Thompson SMG...
- I STILL have a shirt that says that! (Actually, it doesn't say anything - you have to read it.)
-.303 has recently been made in small lots by IVI using the 'old' 215 grain C-I-L KKSP type bullets - headstamped "303 British IVI" - and issued as Ranger ammo because the Mark VII Ball has liabilities as a hunting round, and the Mark VIII Z Vickers MG cartridge was NEVER intended for Lee Enfields.
- Giving that the original stock of close to ONE MILLION Long Branch No. 4 Mk. I* rifles has dropped off since we adopted the FN C1A1 in 1956, we may soon have to decide on a new bolt gun for the Rangers.
- We COULD give them auto rifles and send them home with them like the Swiss government does with all of their men, but that would set too good of an example for the rest of the country.
- The issue with staying with .303 is that it is no longer made militarily in large quantities, and commercial .303 British has a limited SAAMI spec due to the weakness of older No. 1 Mk. III actions. If you had a new Remington 700 chambered for .303 (good luck!) you could push that cartridge to 50,000 plus CUP easy, vice maybe the SAAMI spec of about 45,000 CUP.
- But no commercial mfr would load 303 British that hot on the off chance that some fool would take it and cycle it through his SMLE, thus giving the antis an excuse to sic their running dog packs of commie cumbubbles against the gun and ammo mfrs in court.
- Solution? Military: 308 Winchester in a Savage Stevens 200 or similar low-end bolt gun. Yes, I realize that 7.62 NATO and .308 Win share the same cartridge case but NOT the same SAAMI specs, so the rifle would be built for the hotest commercially or militarily available specs.
- Commercial: The three most popular calibres in North America are: 30-06, 7mm Rem Mag and .270 Winchester. The 30-06 has the best selection of projectiles of them all.
- Historical: As a lark: 7.62 X 54R. Older than the .303, still used today in vast quantities as a Machine Gun cartridge (PKM, PKT etc), MILLIONS of bolt guns (Mosin-Nagant) avail all around the world. We will be swimming in these long after the last .303 round is ever fired at a moose.