ammohead,
Mine is a mod 46 made in 1929, 9.3 X 57 mm. I noticed in your article that you can seat the bullet out past the lube groove. I can't chamber mine with the bullet out past the front band. I'm going to reduce the front band diameter and seat the bullet out and see what happens to accuracy. Looks like I'll be forced to shoot more ammo. One thing I haven't figured out is why this rifle shoots high with light loads and everything else I have shoots low. I'll post the results.
JDB