Where Did You Find Yours

[browningautorifle]

Financing new brass isn't the issue Dick. It's finding brass at all. And 303 is just about as scarce because it's prized as highly here as 30-40 is in the US. My pic has no way to judge scale really I guess so it's hard to get a handle on the barrel length. Looking at it myself, it looks about 14", doesn't it? I did measure it though and it's exactly 21.5"...close...no cookie. I'll make do. It'll end up done like the school gun or CC after I'm done though.

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[Dick Hosmer]

Looking at it myself, it looks about 14", doesn't it? I did measure it though and it's exactly 21.5"...close...no cookie.

That is amazing - I wonder if modern digital cameras have a new way of minimizing the optical flaw known as "barrel distortion" (which has nothing to do with gun barrels!) at close range? In the old days, with SLR cameras, a distinct curvature would be visible. I based my comment on proportions. Yours appears, from the photo, to be of very nearly equal length from front of magazine to band as from band to muzzle, which would mean it was way short. I presume you made the 21.5" measurement in the bore from face of closed bolt? The photo is really a puzzle! Enjoyed the chat.