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303Guy 
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 Posted: January 01 2013 at 5:37pm |
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Beautiful rifle.
It's strange that someone would cut off the charger bridge. The best scope mounting point out there and they cut it off! Oh well. I do like the rear scope base fitting on the one in your pic. I have a different use for the original rear sight mount.  It clips onto a ring on my back pack strap. Real cool for walking about and the rifle can be shouldered without unclipping it but unclipping it is quick and easy enough. ( have a bad elbow and can't carry a rifle for too long). Oh, that fat thing on the butt is for digging into the ground on steep and slippery slopes in the bush. It's cross grain bit of wood. It works - even with the carry cord clipped on. It's shock cord so stretches. Anyway, it would be great to see photo's of your other rifle too.
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flanker
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Posted: January 01 2013 at 9:31pm |
My rifle is like yours. a Parker Hale conversion. It was sold as a BSA, but that was not correct.
What sort of ound did you you use to shoot the roe deer? I'm very interested in that idea and have started loading with Sierra 125 and 150gr soft point Spitzers which seem accurate. None of these have been use on a live target yet. I have a 6x42 S+B Hungartian scope on mine with a S+K one piece mount. I'll add pictures.
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llaszloboehm
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Posted: January 03 2013 at 3:59am |
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Good evening Gentlemen,
I´m glad to be wellcomed this heartedly in this forum. I´m a hunter since 2009 and my major game is roe deer, due to environmental opportunities. Let me tell about the cartridges, which I use: 150 grain Soft Point Spitzer with Vo =810 m/s from the czech ammo maker Sellier&Bellot 180 grain SP Pro Hunter Sierra with Vo=710 m/s hand loaded Both types out of the Long Branch. Precision between 1 to 1,5 Inches. The shooting distaces were between 50 up to 120 meters. They work very well, with minimal damage to meat, when with good impact point (rib cage) the game dropped immediately or ran less then 50 meters. With the Parker Hale Conversion I´use factory 180 grain SPRN High Speed Core Lockt made by Remington. Its accurate like the other one. The round works superb on roe deer, fox , the shown piglet and 4 weeks ago female red deer . I have also 150 grain Speer PSP wih Vo=750 m/s and 180 grain Sierra Pro Hunter with Vo=750 m/s in my locker, Powder is Vhitavuori N140, but did not tryed them, because the range would open at 9 January. I´m going to take a few detail pics to discuss about and I´ll take photos of shooting results with the ammo I operate. I wish You all, a good day
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Posted: January 03 2013 at 8:34am |
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Welcome-welcome-welcome. Nice shootin irons.
But I gotta tell ya, I got a chuckle out of the "deer" you bagged. I thot it was a rabbit at first!  Guess I'm blessed, living over here where the deer tend to be much bigger!Not trying to be sarcastic..but are you able to glean much meat from a deer like that? I'm asking cuz I don't know. Hoadie |
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Loose wimmen tightened here
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Posted: January 04 2013 at 3:15am |
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Good morning Gentlemen, dear Hoadie,
for those among us, who are not educated properly in zoological issues, the animal you see is probably a hungarian roe rabbit (that hunt happened really in Hungary)......You are ideed blessed with game in Canada. We over here are limited to roe deer, red deer, dam deer, sika deer, wild sheep, black alpine goats, wild pigs, moose in scandinavia, lynx, wolfes and bears in eastern Europe plus birds and few predators. Bur generally the size of game is lower than in Northern America. That roe deer has a live weight between 12-20 Kg, with guts out and skinned 8-14 Kg, pure meat 6-12 kg. My first red deer in November last year had 50 kg with guts out. I took it at approx 100-120 meters with factory Remington Core Lockt 180 grain SPRN bullet, top lung shot, straigt penetration, approx 2 inches exit hole. I`ll try a pic in a second message, otherwise, it will probably mess up with my picture manager.
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Posted: January 04 2013 at 3:18am |
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Posted: January 06 2013 at 5:31am |
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Here are a few pics of my Parker Hale No 4. It now has a Schmidt and Bender 6x42 scope with S+K Mount. These are some of my Sierra Spitzer 125 gr soft points, I'm thinking of adding the original military sling.
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Posted: January 06 2013 at 5:39am |
 Not sure what's happened  - I uploaded 4 pictures and only one is showing - I've tried uploading again and get a message telling me these are already uploaded.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 3:11am |
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OK, try this: Here are a few pics of my Parker Hale No 4. It now has a Schmidt and Bender 6x42 scope with S+K Mount. These are some of my Sierra Spitzer 125 gr soft points, I'm thinking of adding the original military sling.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 3:35am |
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Much better, nice setup.
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 3:56am |
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Hi!
have You tried those 123 gn bullets? I use Sierra Game King Spitzer 120 gn at 850 m/s in my Swedish Mauser on roe deer, and the effect is more than satisfying. I suppose, that out of an Enfield the same effect happens, when the same bullet type is eployed (regardless of caliber). Accuracy remains the final question, because the Enfields were made for 174 gn bullets at a velocity not higher than 800 m/s Now the mount: is that made of steel or aluminium alloy? Do the rings belong to the rail? Next: the magazine. I´have serious feeding problems, when using the 180 gn Round Nose Remington ammo. These difficulties do not occure with spitzer ammo. Unfortunately the same problem is present in my other Long Branch made Enfield, though the conversion ist different and the magazines are not interchangeble. Did You try RN bullets allready? I wish a good day!
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 4:02am |
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 4:04am |
It seems to hold zero pretty well but I think I need to shim the front mount somehow, I can zero lower than 200m at the moment. Funny thing, the originals pictures look fine in Firefox but not in Explorer. |
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 4:07am |
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Hi! this is for 303Guy,
as You can see, there is no way to carry my rifle with a rubberflex-cord....by the way, Your method is a creative one. They`ve cut of the complete rear bridge, so I was forced to pay a fortune to the gunsmith for this half side mount. But it works perfectly. I´ll post a pic with the other side
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Posted: January 07 2013 at 6:01am |
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Cool looking rifle, that's an interesting scope rail solution!
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llaszloboehm wrote:
Dear Gentlemen,