Jack Stanley
08-06-2012, 06:18 PM
Recently I've been working with using up some bullets appropriate for the three oh three British round . I've been able to use a couple of different rifles , sometimes with good results even . In sorting out some of the brass and using it I needed to get some cases trimmed so I set up my make shift drill press trimmer and got after that . It really wasn't so bad getting them trimmed so I did a small pile of some HXP stuff I got years ago and had removed the ammo from the belts and stored it in cans .
So I got to thinking about loading up all the cases I had that were empty and the thought came to me . I don't remember the last time I shot any military ball ammo through a Brit of any design . With that in mind I went digging in the bunker and came up with more of that HXP ball that is the same vintage as the empty cases . Well that's great , but now I don't want to run the ammo through the number one MkIII or the number four MkII ...... what I need is a case emptier .
As it just so happens , leftover from my last table at the gun show the rifle nobody wanted . A Savage number four MkI that was all cleaned and prettied up for the guys that snub their noses at it unless they can resell it with a two hundred percent profit . So I clipped the price tag off it and the nylon band , grabbed the ammo and rifle and out back I went .
Most of the shooting was from the bench because I wanted to see the difference of where the "L" type flip sight would put the rounds . The short setting seemed to send them just a tad left but the taller one kept the shots centered . Then , just for giggles , I attached the bayonet to see where the groups would go . Short sight moved just enough right on the target to be centered perfect and went down just a tad . The tall sight just came down a bit and stayed centered .
So by the time I got done playing around with it I had another hundred empty HXP cases to resize and trim for the loading project . Who knows maybe I'll put some more wear on this Savage and empty some more cases with it . After all the hustlers at the gun show aren't likely to shoot the rifle enough to apprieciate how nice it is . I case use a few more of those nice Boxer primed cases anyway .
Jack
So I got to thinking about loading up all the cases I had that were empty and the thought came to me . I don't remember the last time I shot any military ball ammo through a Brit of any design . With that in mind I went digging in the bunker and came up with more of that HXP ball that is the same vintage as the empty cases . Well that's great , but now I don't want to run the ammo through the number one MkIII or the number four MkII ...... what I need is a case emptier .
As it just so happens , leftover from my last table at the gun show the rifle nobody wanted . A Savage number four MkI that was all cleaned and prettied up for the guys that snub their noses at it unless they can resell it with a two hundred percent profit . So I clipped the price tag off it and the nylon band , grabbed the ammo and rifle and out back I went .
Most of the shooting was from the bench because I wanted to see the difference of where the "L" type flip sight would put the rounds . The short setting seemed to send them just a tad left but the taller one kept the shots centered . Then , just for giggles , I attached the bayonet to see where the groups would go . Short sight moved just enough right on the target to be centered perfect and went down just a tad . The tall sight just came down a bit and stayed centered .
So by the time I got done playing around with it I had another hundred empty HXP cases to resize and trim for the loading project . Who knows maybe I'll put some more wear on this Savage and empty some more cases with it . After all the hustlers at the gun show aren't likely to shoot the rifle enough to apprieciate how nice it is . I case use a few more of those nice Boxer primed cases anyway .
Jack