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    I have one that my dad bought for around $10 at Woolworths five and dime circa 1954. It's sportorized and shoots 2 3/4- 3 1/2 inches at 100 yards.....but it's about 15" high for it's fixed battle sights for I'm guessing to 300 meters.

    My dad said it wouldn't hit the broadside of a barn if you were in it. When I shot (with big cardboad!) he was suprised it grouped so well. I'm sure that he was annoyed as youth to have to deal with fixed battle sights set high and that's where he got the inaccurate notion from.

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    Yes, I had a SA marked 1941 but sold it. I had three 1941's all shot about 16" high at 100 yards.

    I found the bolt hard to operate on all mine, but maybe I'm just used to Enfields.

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    Hornady now is selling the 6.5x52 Cacano cartridge.

    They also make the .300" 128-grain bullet for the 7.35.

    Everybody and his dog makes dies for the 7.35. Even Lee has a set.

    Get 6,5s, expand the case-mouths and seat the .300 slugs. That`s it.

    The 128-grain slug should run about 2485 ft/sec. You can dupe this with 40 of 4895 (BARNES - COTW-6).

    Should be a nice light deer rifle out to 250 or so.
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    PRVI makes 7.35 cases so why bother with reforming? However, if you find it necessary to turn 6.5x52's into 7.35's theres a bit more to it than just expanding the neck and seating the bullet, the 6.5 Carcano case is 1mm(.040'') longer than the 7.35 case so they need to be trimmed to the correct length after reforming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by vintage hunter View Post
    PRVI makes 7.35 cases

    And a supplier would be? (I haven't shopped for brass lately, but last time I just went with Hornady 6,5 brass.)

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    Graf Sons - The Reloading Authority - Your Source for Shooting Supplies

    I have'nt bought any either, have an fair supply of military stuff, several hundred Hornady bullets along with 50 reformed cases I fixed up before PRVI came out with the ready rolled stuff. It's been at least 3 years since I shot it last so what I have is likely to do me a while.
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    Will get some directly, if it's still in stock. Brass costs as much as the Prvi 7,62x51 ammo I've been buying! But I think that's more of a reflection of how cheap that ammo is, rather than how high the brass is priced. Excellent .308 ammo, BTW.

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