*Stands up from chair, faces group, sheepishly mutters* "I'm Sam and I'm here because I've been addicted to surplus rifles for 2 years."

Now that that's out of the way, the first surplus rifle I acquired is a sporterized p14 enfield, nothing too special, someone milled the ears off and installed redfield sights, but it was done very cleanly. Definitely not a backyard hack.



I've fallen in love with it, the action is smooth and rock solid but I'm not so fond of the rimmed cartridge. Now for the oddball question: Could I have the barrel and reciever reamed to chamber and fire 8mm Mauser? I like the loads available for it, and it's dimensionally larger than the .303. Would it shoot worth a hoot? The twist rate is 1-9.45 for the mauser and 1-10 for the enfield.

Another option is 45-70 but that's still a rimmed cartridge and would require a new barrel.

The dream conversion involves a rebarrel it to .375 H&H, but unless I get into reloading, I'd never shoot it. The mauser is available cheap enough to be a non issue.

Sam
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