Long range .303

[Bindi2]

Or....... just take the pragmatic view, shared by most of the Armourers reading these pages. If it's a worn barrel/throat/chyamber as indicated by the Vickers leed gauge, then just accept that it is a worn barrel, therfore inaccurate - and just gotta be replaced. There's a saying that worn barrels NEVER, ever improve with age!

Just a minor Q Peter where do i get a new or near new barrel, is that the same place as the rocking horse poo next to the bugie teeth on the top shelf next to the fairy dust. I will send you an order number for a couple of crates of barrells if you can conjur up the export import paper work.

[aussietomcatter]

I believe criterion barrels will be making both No1 MkIII and No4 barrels in the not to distant future.

[Bindi2]

I believe criterion barrels will be making both No1 MkIII and No4 barrels in the not to distant future.

Just an andepodean, bushwacking, hillbilly,redneck bludging retiree to another retiree who more than likely will tell me in very correct Queens English where to go with a brisk salute minus most fingers.
Hope you are on the money about Criterion. I think TSE or MADDCO are doing No1 Mk3. Dont know which weight.

[Brian Dick]

Try some Sierra 180 grain Pro-Hunter projectiles if you can get them. They're the best I've found short of real Mk.7 which are impossible to find.

[WarPig1976]

Gods honest truth on everything I hold dear,...I had a bolt that was stripped out and I lost it one day on a ride which held the brake drum from rotating with the wheel on a 73' Harley Davidson. I fixed it with a STICK and a piece of BUBBLE GUN on the side of the road and it was still there the day I sold it. Sometimes you need to adapt and overcome when your 19yrs old an broke...

[Beerhunter]

Try some Sierra 180 grain Pro-Hunter projectiles if you can get them. They're the best I've found short of real Mk.7 which are impossible to find.

Believe it or not Brian, it is illegal to use them in the UK for target shooting.

It's another case of our government "gold plating an EU Directive.

[bigduke6]

Need to rebarrel my Musgrave so can't afford to upgrade!

BB,

What cal is your Musgrave?

[Brian Dick]

Beerhunter,
Oh yeah, I forgot about that. Sierra dropped the ball on the Mk.7 bullet project I tried to instigate. I don't have the money to foot the bill alone. Gotta love this brave new world we're in. It just gets better and better with each passing day. Jeez!!

[Patrick Chadwick]

Try some Sierra 180 grain Pro-Hunter projectiles if you can get them.

Nice to know that someone out there agrees with me!

BritishBeer, you could try the Hornady type 3130, 180 round-nose, with probably the longest cylindrical section you can get in commercial bullets. They are at least a partial cure if your rifle has a worn throat. Alternatives are the Speer 180gn round-nose and the Sierra 180gn ProHunter spitzer.

[Patrick Chadwick]

Believe it or not Brian, it is illegal to use them in the UK for target shooting. It's another case of our government "gold plating an EU Directive.

I would be interested to hear more about what sounds like another piece of bureaucratic lunacy. Hunting laws in Germany prohibit the use of some types of bullet (and indeed some calibers, depending on the game classification) that cannot provide a clean kill. But there is no danger of a poor, injured target slowly bleeding to death.

The EU-excuse is the standard smokescreen put up by British bureaucrats who do not actually have a solid argument for their latest attempts to make life difficult, relying on the fact that Joe Q Public does not know any better. If you lived in my neighbourhood, I would happily bet you a beer that no-one can produce an EU Directive that states that bullets suitable for hunting may not be used for target shooting.