Hunting with the .303 British
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Topic: Hunting with the .303 British
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Subject: Hunting with the .303 British
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 8:00am
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Eric, Thanks for taking this idea into advisement and starting this post!! Richard " Cookie Monster" Cook |
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Posted By: shotgunminister
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 9:12am
I just want to know if squirrel hunting with the .303 counts? ------------- I've seen the future and I don't like it. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 12:10pm
In my books everything is fair game to a .303 ! (Including Rats ) Dave |
shotgunminister wrote:Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: February 26 2006 at 1:01pm
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Dave, Does that include two legged rats? Cookie Monster |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 1:32pm
I like to think of it as being open to interpritation..............  |
Posted By: Cookie Monster
Date Posted: February 27 2006 at 1:52pm
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Dave, My thoughts excatly!! Cookie Monster |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 1:17pm
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Well hey ! I bin huntin here for alot of years, & I keep going back to my L/E. Tried, true & tested!!I own some 16 shootin irons @ present, & I've NEVER found anything as dependable or accurate as my L/E's are.
My favorite cartridge wieght is: 150 gr. I find anything over that drops too much, for the way I shoot.Plus, that wieght will takeANYTHING on this continent, & it STAYS hit! I've got ALOT of deer & moose over the years to prove it! I've got Elk, Moose, Deer, Black Bear, Wolf, Jacks & Cottons ON my northern property(partridge, too).I find 30.06 too heavy for deer (some argue that point - specially my Yank buds). But the truth is evident.The hunt club I used to belong to -to a man - eventually obtained L/E riflrs (sported) based on my successes. If you go to ANY hunt camp here - chances are you'll find @ least 1 L/E, everytime! Glad I found this forum.Hope to here from ya! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 1:42pm
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G'day Mate welcome to the site "Real Mob of Country Gentlemen" here Hope to see round the fire ! Dave |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 16 2006 at 11:06pm
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G'Day!
I'm back. Thought I'd expound a tad re: enfield & cartridges.@ present - I only have three L/E 's.A service rifle, 1916,(B.S.A.co)III*.This one was @ VIMY RIDGE, in WWI.I've got targets here that people don't believe.100 yards - sliding sights - consistent BULL-THRU THE CROSS LINES ! Again, with a 150 gr. The second ia a 1916 I Mk III, sporterized by Parker Hale, but still with slide sights.(This one made by Enfield)Both are unbelievably accurate. The third is a L/E pattern.(During WWII there was ALOT of contractors pumping these things out - cause the Brits left about 330,000 of the good ones lying on the beach @ Dunkirque!!)Thisparticular one was made by "Churchill" in London.It's got a scope, with a Parker Hale mount.It's a sport - but as with all later production types, it's accuacy leaves alot to be desired (in MY opinion). I'm just going to clean it up a little, & sell it.(I don't like scopes, N E way.) I used to have 9 L/E's @ one time, the collection waxes & wanes, over the years. I've also got a 1853 pattern Enfield (black powder.577 Cal) stamped 1862.I bin re-enacting U.S.Civil War (IN the states)since '81, so I use it for that.But I do live fire & a little hunting with it, too.Once you get used to the way it shoots & handles, you'll be fairly accurate inside 75 yards.If you've never shot black powder, I think your REALLY missing something! It can be a real hoot! I'm giving up on Civil War re-enacting(can't see trapsing all over the states anymore - when I've got all this property up north, here)Besides, @ my age, when your on a re-enactment - the food gets a little worse, the digestion gets a little tougher, the ground gets a little harder, the sun gets a little hotter - every year, know what I mean ? I'm on market for another service rifle again.I'll obtain a '42 Long Branch No.4.(I got WWII kit, I'll help out my legion colour party, once I get it). Well mate, guess I've strained your eyes enough.Keep your powder dry, & keep shootin!! Hoadie (George) |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 12:00pm
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Never strain these Old eyes! George! Not with talk of Enfields
I've always found that the younger generation over here get a real shck
when they see what a Enfield is capable of doing in the hands of a good
shooter (my problem is finding good shooters these days as my
days have come & gone) Dave |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 1:02pm
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I was under the impression Oz had some pretty "draconian" firearm laws.Have I bin misinformed ?
Have U done N E black powder ? On another topic - I noticed Eric wuz askin about M-1 Garands. I dropped him a line re:my experience with them.Turns out you & I have the same dislikes on 'em. George |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 1:39pm
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George they've had a couple of goes at restiricting various types of
Fire arm over here .Thing was they left a few Loop holes ! It just made
it harder on the average shooter to own & shoot Semi auto rifles
/shotguns & pump action shot guns (this never affected us Pro
shooters ) So far as handguns went there was a ban put on anything
heavier than a 357 unless you shot Cowboy or metalic sil (I kept
both my .44mags & a mate kept his 45acp for metal sil .....don't
ask ) Barrel lenghts were changed to a min of 4inches for revolvers
& 5inches for semi autos max mag capasity 10 rounds ! The funny part was the prices they paid in the buy back ! I was buying up el cheapo .22 semis the moment I got a whisper of what was comming for about $10.00 a throw & got up to a $100 for em in the buy back it was great ! Just think the Anti gun lobby was paying dearly to get their own way ! I even sent them a copy of the check I got out of it with a thankyou letter for the profit they made me ! Strange thing is I never got a reply Yeah I still have nightmares about that M1!!! Kombie nver misses a oppertunity to bait me about it !  Dave |
Posted By: shotgunminister
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 1:42pm
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Don't feel bad. I as a kid dreamed of being a shapr shooter. a visit to the optromitrist(sp?) quickly put an end to that. And i ain't that old either. If I wear these darn contacts I can get my vision to 20/30 in my left eye and 20/40 in my right eye. Otherwise it's 20/50 in both eyes, with glasses I might add. Glasses do no good either. ------------- I've seen the future and I don't like it. |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 17 2006 at 1:57pm
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Yeah I know that feelin!! Years of night shooting has taken it's toll
on my eyes ! I think the thing I curse the most is my loss of hearing
through years of not wearing ear protection ! I can not stress to new
Blokes coming into the Industry, enough for the need to wear ear
protection when their out at work ! You start firing 50rnds + off a
night 6/7 nights per week over the years & all of a sudden you
realise your as deaf as a coot ! I went to get my hearing checked
a few years back when I realised I was going deaf & the Guy just
shook his head when he asked what I did for a living ! As he pointed
out the damage had been done & all I could do was save what hearing
I had left ! Dave |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 18 2006 at 11:28pm
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EH ? Whadya say ?
hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 8:57am
FOR GOD'S SAKE! MAN TYPE LOUDER Dave |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 10:48am
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We're DEEEF!!! Not blind !!!
(Well, sorta) Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 19 2006 at 12:31pm
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Damn why can't these screens be in braile?????? Dave |
Posted By: kombi76
Date Posted: March 23 2006 at 3:35pm
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I wonder how you ended up half blind....... ------------- Cheers & God Bless Sporting Shooters Association of Australia - www.ssaa.org.au |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 11:20am
I stopped when I had to wear Glasses !  Dave |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: March 24 2006 at 1:28pm
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Howdy..just a quick question. i got my hands on some 303 rounds and im not sure on the markings. on the base theres 54 7 MF any one have any ideas? |
Posted By: Ed Hill
Date Posted: March 25 2006 at 2:14am
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It's local product Allan! The 54 is the manufacure date, the 7
indicates the Mk 7 174 grn 2440fps load and the MP is Small Arms
Ammunition Factory No 1, Footscray, Melbourne. (from the
harringtonmuseum.org.uk) Probably cordite. Ed |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: March 25 2006 at 6:17am
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cheers ed, I love this place everone is so helpfull...thanks. I dont think ill use them though cos they are fairly discoloured and a bit crusty around the primer. |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 6:55am
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You lads were joking about hearing loss in the earlier postings. Have any of you used a sound moderator? We found a legal loophole here in the uk and the police allow us to use them under the Health and Safety act passed here ( or is it hear?) years ago. Basically the police are scared of shooters suing the ass off them for refusing to let us use moderators and some bright lawyer ripping into them for compensation for loss of hearing. Obviously laws differ from country to country but its worth a try if you feel strongly enough about it. Tony. ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Ed Hill
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 10:11am
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Tony, here in the Peoples Republic of Kalifornia, our gun safety laws
are based on how scary a gun looks, not it's actual potential. Sooo..
you can own 20 SKS's and 10,000 rounds of ammo as long as they don't
have grenade launchers or hand grips. We all know that mass murderers
and criminals really like grenade launchers and use them often. They banned the 50 BMG rifles ( even single shots) because they are big, shoot a long distance and have a really scary big bullet. Since they are 5' long, they are easy to hide under a coat. Any type of suppressor that screws onto the barrel would be "bad guy" stuff, and therefore, scary. Ed |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 6:47pm
Thanks for that info Ed. Your bad guys must wear awful long coats to hide a 50 BMG.  Its sad that the uninformed can have such an influence over the authorities and get our hobby restricted so much. All the shooters I know wouldn't harm a fly, in fact they've been great with my family. I'm a single dad and the guys from the shooting club took my kids under their collective wings and made it possible for us enjoy ourselves. Shame the non shooters can't be as helpful.------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 7:14pm
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I dont think ill use them though cos they are fairly discoloured and a bit crusty around the primer. Allens a Chicken! .....Allens a Chicken! 
Hey this is why we have Mother in laws ! Their a living crash test
dummy for suspect ammo! Look I've got a couple of really suspect
enfields laying round the place ! Take one of these ....one mother
inlaw ....suspect ammo ......lay on a barbee, a few cold ones, Few
mates ,set her ....Rifle & ammo up at a safe distance & put her
to work ! This can lead to hours of entertainment & great financial
gain if you run a book on how many rounds before it goes
up in a blaze of Glory.........Or the whole thing gives up
the ghost on the first shot ! Or in the gravest extreme (God forbid )
Their all duds .....No small explostion ! No goodbye Mother
,No Money from the bets ! And your mates give you the
hiding of your life for not giving them the entertainment they
came for ! Dave |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 7:38pm
Your ma in law and sussies!  Perv!! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: April 20 2006 at 7:46pm
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dave,your a bad man and you think of the un-thinkable!!!!!
how long will it take for you to drive over to my house??? ill bring the mother inlaw.... you bring the beer!! |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 12:09am
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Could be worse Allan!! It could be Dave wearing the sussies! ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: Ed Hill
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:34am
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For those of us who separated from M.E. long ago and no longer speak
english, I researched this "sussies". As it refers to a belt like
object with supporting clips, I believe Dave, Tony and Allan are
referring to those canvas pouches that hold loaded Enfield chargers.
However, I am unsure why Dave H's Mother-in-law would wear them? Tony, most of the people I have met shooting have been normal well balanced folks. The old guys at the range are so happy to see kids show up to learn to shoot, they spoil them terribly. Ed |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 8:21pm
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You got that right Ed. Most of the guys I shoot with are Scousers ( from liverpool) with a great sense of humour and they realise the kids are the future shooters. Unfortunately the guys aren't into enfields as such and tend to shoot the new Steyrs and other fancy toys fitted with huge scopes. Great you can drop them all in near enough the same hole but where's the skill in it ? If the scope gets knocked they're screwed. Interesting to learn that enfield had a works at Fazakerly during the war I live about 40 miles from there after moving over to the nw from sheffield. Somewhere in the bits I salvaged from the move are pics of huge gun barrels forged at Firth Vickers in sheffield for WW1 battleships. There may also be some pics of the drop hammers and lathes they used in WW2 to make the crankshafts for the spitfire engines. One of the reasons sheffield was flattened during the war. I was born in 1948 and remember as a kid the burned out buildings and piles of rubble still left over from the blitz. If anybody is interested I'll try and find them and post them on here. Before anybody comments on my age my birth certifcate is on Parchment not a stone tablet.
------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 10:06pm
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SOME of those WW I gun barrels fired 15" shells (K.G.V comes to mind..thats the one they named after me!)
Remember HMS Sheffield & Sir Gallahad ! Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: Tony
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 10:33pm
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Hms sheffield was fitted out with stainless and cutlery from my old Home town hoadie. I lost some mates when Galahad copped it. Worst part was Goose Green my mates FN took a hit and steel splinters copped me in the leg. Didn't realise until later and the fireworks had calmed down. Surprised HM Government didn't try to bill me for the scrap metal. ------------- Rottie (PitBulls dad.) “If electricity comes from electrons, does morality come from morons Born free taxed to death!!! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: April 21 2006 at 11:55pm
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Sorry to hear that. I watched a doco on what went wrong with Galahad. Enuff to make your blood boil !
Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: R Pope
Date Posted: May 07 2006 at 10:55pm
| Here in Saskatchewan, a deer rifle was always a 303, until the economy got better in the '70's and most hunters fell for the Magnum siren song. (Me, too, I'm ashamed to say) . I finally realized that my 308 Norma didn't kill 'em any deader than the old "crowbar", so I dusted off my cut down #1 Mk4 and hit the deer woods. 18" barrel, Williams sights, and a home-built 5-shot clip. Keeps the freezer full! |
Posted By: hoadie
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 2:05am
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R.Pope-welcome to the site!
Cudos on your ability to manufacture your own 5 shot MAGAZINE.(Not "Clip" - MAGAZINE) Since your new to the site - you probably didn't see my posting a while back - directed primarily @ Canucks - re: magazine laws. Just in case you weren't aware, the Lee Enfield & the M-1 Garand (8 shot semi auto) ARE SPECIFICALLY EXEMPT from the magazine laws in Canada. Your right bout everyone fallin fer the image of a fancier shootin iron.(Glad to say I didn't - I'm dyed in the wool Enfield!) I got other irons, but I rely on & trust my Enfield(s). A note of caution bout this site..watch out fer a guy named daveh. Hoadie ------------- Loose wimmen tightened here |
Posted By: allan
Date Posted: May 08 2006 at 9:20am
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yeh like hoadie said about Dave H... bad news mate, (specially his cousin ------------- 'SAVIOUR OF OUR SKIES BOYO!' |
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