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12-18-2010 06:58 AM
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The long lever looks really nice. Have you tried shooting it? What is the bore like?
The 98 I think is an inspection mark?
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martini,
The rifle is nice and the bore is good. I have not slugged the bore yet but did shoot some paper patched .458's. I was shooting at 100 yards and had trouble getting on paper. I shot the short lever with the same bullets, paper patched and at 50 yards had about a 3 1/2" group for 4 shots. 2" left and 4" high. I shot 65 grains 2F in the short lever and 70 grains in the long lever. Dryer lint as a filler, card wad, grease cookie, card wad and bullet. I am going to load a few more and see what happens.
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The short lever group sounds about right at 4" high if you are using the 100 yard setting on the back sight.
It takes a fair bit of time and experimentation to get the cartridge performing well and consistently, all part of the fun guessing why it is not performing.
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I can't see the top of the Nocks form or the front sight, so I can't tell if you have an A or B pattern. The way the rifle shots seems to indicate it is not C pattern. The bores of the A and B are .470 major diameter. Get some larger bullets and the rifle should shoot.
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It looks to be a pattern "A". The "A" and "B" used rebored barrels from the never issued EM rifles and therefore ended up with a slightly larger major diameter. As such, do as Douglas suggests and get some larger bullets. It makes a major difference.
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I picked this one up a while back. Bayonet is on the way.
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I was about to get one of those gehendra rifles from IMA but they went and had the special on the snider rifles so now I'll have to wait.
john
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