Re-Chambering

Gentlemen,

I am seriously considering rechambering my #4 Shooter in 7.62x54R and want to check and see if you all think that the receiver is strong enough to handle the mil-surp carts available on the market.

Ciao,

Mike Spivey
Las Vegas NM

 

No chance the pressures would blow the action to bits in your face!! The bolt will fly back possibly embedding in your face, shrapnel flying around possibly injuring bystanders too. I have seen a rifle blow and I don't want to see or hear of it again! My lads Dragurnov Tigre is 762x54 and the amount of powder used to throw a 155 grain lapua bullet down range is 19% higher than the amount used in my remington using same size bullets and 18% higher than the 303 using 174 grain bullets.  Both loads using same powder Vit 140 and same same primers. The remington has a substantially stronger action than the enfield but I still wouldn't stress it using the high pressures used by the 762x54R.   

762 Nato pressures are around 50,000 psi 762x54 are 57,000psi, 303 are around 42000psi. Giving a minimum of 7000psi over pressure on 762 nato or a maximum of 15000psi overpressure on 303. Think thats a lot more than your information allowed for and way over any safety magin built into the enfield recievers.

Get some reloading equipment instead. After the current panic has subsided a little and components are available again (I hope) you can tailor ammo to do whatever you want (within safe limits).

Dunno what you class as cheap. Russian Milsurp is around £25 sterling/100 here in the uk. Similar price to the 303 milsurp if and when you can get it. My lad was waffling on about getting a case of Russian stuff and stashing it until I pointed out he can only buy 500 at a time and 600 to keep at any 1 time on his ticket. So he planned on me having half on my ticket to level it out. Where we'd store a 900 round case of ammo is a mystery to me lol.

Cheap for me is 440 rounds of 7.62x54R for $85.00 or if I buy 880 rounds $165.00.  That would work out to £57 sterling/440 or £111 sterling/880.  I have no restrictions on the amount of ammunition I can store.  I probably have 5000 loaded rounds of 7.62NATO just for my 7.62 NATO chambered M1 Garand.   Below is one source I have used before:
http://www.jgsales.com/product_info.php/products_id/1789

Ciao,

Mike

Tony I must have over 30,000 rounds of ammo here on the farm... an assortment of every thing I have to shoot.... the majority of it would be in .22 cal Russian ammo , had 3 tins of that stuff still have 2 unopened. the rest would go from 7.62x54 russian ,.303 Enfield ,7.62x51 , 7.62x39 , 7mm Rem. Mag. , 8mm Mauser , 7.62x38 , 9x18 , 9x19 , .38 special , .30-.30 , 6.5x55 , .32 acp ,.45 L/C assorted shot gun shells.... I think thats all ......

You're so Lucky Rhino.  Maximum 22 ammo I can have is 500 to purchase 600 to keep, same with all the other calibres we have 222, 243, 303, 308. 762x54. BUT now lad has his ticket we can double the amounts. Strange thing is we can buy shotgun ammo by the 1000 and nobody bothers. As we all know most bank robberies are usually sawn off shotguns or pistols nobody lugs a rifle around it's too obvious so why restrict rifle ammo? Crazy restrictions in a crazy world.