At 01:45 AM 9/18/2001 -0400, dep wrote:
>the jungle carbine is absolutely mint -- and no, it's not one of the
>repros. maybe 500 rounds through it.
In that case, either leave it the hell alone, or, have someone install a
.308 barrel with sights on it, and give you back your original barrel.
Better yet is to just find a good source of .303 ammo, and shoot that.
Were you to re-chamber to .308 ( I don't have drawings in front of me to
verify whether or not the chamber would clean up completely even) you would
have the issue of trying to shoot .308 diameter bullets out of a .311 bore.
Definitely not conducive to good accuracy, but if all you need is 20 feet (
see below) then you'd be fine, as you would if you handloaded, which it
sounds like you have the capacity to do.
>as to deer -- it would take a lot of work to get the deer to move
>back 100 yards. i personally know of -- no names here -- someone who
>last fall took down a big doe at about 20 feet with a benjamin .22
>pellet gun, eight pumps, shot to the forehead. i mean, pop, down, no
>movement -- or so i'm told. and i heard that it fed us well for most
>of the winter, but i cannot confirm it.
I live in a suburban area, and the coyotes have just moved in. The cat is
getting nervous, so I'll be out soon with a rabbit call and my German
airgun. I wondered if this had the capability of taking down a 'yote.
Question answered. Now, all I have to do is figure out how to do it right
the first time. Coyotes won't give you a second chance to screw up.
>the problem with the mini is that ruger seems not to have measured
>the slug and the bore is too frigging small.
Ruger deliberately uses .308 bore barrels in the mini 30, instead of .311.
Who knows why. If you reload, use standard .30 caliber jacketed bullets.
Speer make 125 grain TNT's that are pretty cheap, and darn accurate.
> it's not bad with
>linotype metal slugs, if spending a few hours getting rid of the
>leading is of no concern -- one can chamber an empty full of mercury
>and do it that way, though a lewis lead remover in 7.62 would be nice
>-- but it's just stupid to screw around with casting and reloading,
>given how cheap jacketed stuff is. and here in the oh so correct
>northeast, gun shows are pretty rare.
Well, given life's little uncertainties, I wouldn't think it'd be stupid to
have a stash of powder, primers, lead and some molds...
BTW our company intranet and internet access are severely impacted by the
latest IIS worm. Maybe the IT department will grow some grey matter and
convert to Apache
Regards,
Scott
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